How do you define a good school What makes a school an effective school What defines an effective school?

Answer 1

The following is what I think defines a good and effective school. A good schoool is one that gives its students good resources and lets them achieve their full potential. The teachers have to be willing to give their students advice on how to improve the standard of their homework, and classwork, especially if the student asks. The headteacher has to be involved in the school-including running charity events and regularly doing an assembly instead of leaving it to other teachers. The students should feel comfortable and recognise their school as a safe place for them, so if they have any problems, they can talk to a teacher about it. The school premises have to actually be safe and more than just satisfactory. There should be facilities such as computers-preferably one or two rooms full of them-each with enough computers for a whole class to use at once, interactive whiteboards to allow the teachers to use resources to enhance the students' understanding, tables and chairs (obviously) to give the students support when writing (back support), a main hall which could also be a dining hall, or a separate dining hall, a canteen that gives food at affordable prices for children, lifts for mobily impaired students (those in wheelchairs etc.) and reasonable lengths for break and lunch. A school is often thought of as effective if it has good average results for exams. However, an effective school needs more than that. The students have to be regularly involved in the classwork, not just always writing down what the teacher says, they should enjoy and look forward to lessons, the teachers should use different methods for teaching students, the students should also be taught how to be good citizens, friends and daughters and/or sons, by being made aware of the effects of their actions on everyone they meet. The lessons of course should cover a wide range of material and RE lessons especially, as they should teach students about all of the major world religions and how to treat people of those religions, instead of just one religion as that is the main foundation for racism in today's society. I hope this helped you, and, by the way, why did you want to know what defines a good school etc?