Essays on School Improvement

There was no much interest in the field of leadership until around the 1900s when some scholars showed interest in the area. Among the early were Fredrick Taylor, Max Webber, and Mary Parker Follet. They were the early contributors in the field of leadership. There are many differences between leadership and management. Leadership can be defined as the superiority or having the power to influence other people. It is the power that enables one to persuade others to take a particular course of action. Leadership comes from the power, and we have different types of power which reward, expert, ...

Abstract.

This paper explores a detailed plan to promote achievement and success among the sixth grade middle school students in the math discipline. It focuses on the decreased mastery of this discipline among this target group. Looking at possible ways to improve the mastery of maths subject among the sixth grade students, the paper identifies the characteristics of this population, and explains why the population is any target of discussion. It outlines the problems the group is experiencing in details, and establishes ideas, theories and practises that can promote achievement and success among the sixth grade students in the mathematics discipline. ...

Black Boys and underachievement: Myth or Reality?

Introduction Since the decade of the 1960s, the families of black Caribbean boys have been particularly concerned about the academic performance of their children. The reason for this is due to an apparent gap between these Afro-Caribbean children and other students, especially white ones (National Union of Teachers | NUT | The Teachers' Union, 2007). Today, their scholastic success at the attainment at General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) remains well below the national average. In 2006, 44.9 percent of these children gained five good GCSEs or their equal compared to 57.3 percent of white students (DfES, 2007). The figures ...

Executive Summary

Accident investigation is aimed to determine the root causes of the accident, to estimate its cost effects, and also to comply to government safety regulations. Safety practitioners have to use a scientific method for this. There are five simple steps in accident investigation: (1) collecting information, (2) reviewing information, (3) determining the causes, (4) recommending actions, and (5) evaluating the effectiveness of the actions. It starts with collection of evidence to analyze the problem better. Data is reviewed for authenticity and for differences. Determining the causes is best performed using the root cause analysis (RCA). Root cause analysis integrates using ...

In a school learning community, change cannot just be initiated and institutionalized in an instant. As. Willard R. Daggett and Richard D. Jones write in their article that, “The process of improving student performance goes by many different names” (Daggett and Jones 1). Thus, in Chapter 10 of his book, Robert H. Palestini quite quirkily describes the change process “as being like making a U-turn with Queen Elizabeth II” (Palestini 199). Both works make it evident that schools are constantly challenged by school improvement and success for every study. However, Palestini, Daggett and Jones agree that even though change it is ...

Results for the Relationship between the Principals Demographic Factors (Age, Gender and Years of Working Experience) and the Students Academic Experience Again, there is very little in the way of significant results between a principal's age, gender, or years of working experience, and the overall academic experience that students have on campus. There are several reasons why this is probably true. Again, an additional metric that would be worth exploring with further research would be a principal's tenure on the specific campus in question, as a principal who has been on seven campuses in fourteen years, including just a year and a half ...