Thursday, February 5, 2015

Five types of schools


1. Moving
- boost student’s progress
- working together to respond to change context and keep developing
- know where they are going
- will and skill to get there

2. Cruising
- apper to possess many qualities of school effectiveness
- usually high SES
- pupils achieve in spite of teaching quality
- not preparing pupils for changing world

3. Strolling
- neither particularly effective or ineffective
- moving at an inadequate rate to cope with the pace of change
- ill-defined and sometimes conflicting aims inhibit improvement

4. Struggling
- ineffective and they know it
- expend considerable energy to improve
- unproductive thrashing about
- willing to try anything
- will ultimately succeed

5. Sinking
- ineffective
- isolated, deflecting blames, self reliance
- staff, through ignorance of apathy, unable to change
- often how SES – blame the parents, the kids, society, etc
- needs dramatic action and significant support

Stoll.L.& Fink.D.(1996)
Changing our schools. Buckingham,UK: Open University Press

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