What Make A School, A Good School

Found an article in the net from the website teachthought.com written by Terry Heick, Founder and director of Teach Thought. I am sharing the summary of his ideas of what are the characteristics of a good school. There are others whom have written on this topic. Let's look at this first. Of course Mr Terry's ideas are based on the culture, environment and the education system of his country but we can look at it and adopt and adapt what is suitable to our culture and education system. Let's look at some of the recommendations made by him.

  • A good school improves the community it is in.
  • A good adapts quickly to social changes.
  • A good school has students who get along with and support one another towards a common goal which is known by them.
  • A good school produce students that read and write because they want to.
  • A good school admits its failures and limitations while working together with a 'global community' to grow.
  • A good school has diverse and compelling measures of success that families and community understand and value.
  • A good school is full of students who know what's worth understanding.
  • A good school make certain that every single student and family feels welcome and understood on equal terms.
  • A good school understand the difference between a bad idea and the bad implementation of a good idea.
  • A good school values teachers, administrators and parents as agents of students success.
  • A good school teaches thought, not content.
  • A good school produces students that see and know themselves in their own context rather then merely as "good students".
  • A good school produces students that have personal and specific hope for the future that they can articulate and believe in.
  • A good school produces students that can empathize, critique, protect, love, inspire, make, design, restore and understand almost anything and doing so a matter of habit.
  • A good school helps students understand the nature of knowledge.
  • A good school is full of joy, curiosity, hope knowledge and constant change.
  • A good school doesn't have unnecessary meetings.
  • A good school doesn't spend money just because it is there.
  • A good school doesn't exhaust teachers and administrators. 

Hope you get some knowledge from this site to improve your school and the teachers and students towards a better education achievement.



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