The American Schools Module Blog

I will describe the term school. I will explain the organization of schools and discuss characteristics of effective schools. First, I will define what the word school means.
Schools are defined as places where people meet and learning happens. Schools are called social institutions. These institutions are located in a physical place and operate with a set of rules. Now, I will talk about how schools are organized.

Public schools are developmentally organized by a range of grade levels to meet the needs of students. Most students attend kindergarten through grade 5 in an Elementary school. sixth through eight in a middle grades school ,and grades 9-12 in a high school. These three types of schools make up the types of schools in a local school district. A local school superintendent is responsible for the education that happens within the local school district. As each of these schools, the building principal is responsible for how that particular school operates at their particular site. Now I will discuss how the school operates at the building level.
All three types of school have the same building level organization structure. The organization is divided into three parts; personnel, physical and curriculum. The word personnel is used to describe all the types of people who are working in the building; administrators and support staff, the curriculum specialist, and the teachers. Physical is the word used to talk about the structure of the school. Curriculum is the word that is used to define for what teachers teach and what the students learn at each school. All three types of public schools use curriculum. However, all three types of schools differ in terms of the teachers’ daily schedule, classroom design, and instructional focus.

Elementary teachers are general educators. They must teach students all of the core subject areas. These teachers are responsible for given instruction and handling issues of classroom management as they work to meet the needs of a group of children for an entire school term. The elementary school teacher’s schedules for a day are very different from a middle school also high school teacher’s. In contrast, both middle school teachers and high school teachers are only focused on teaching course in their area of certification. The high school teacher working on a block schedule has a ninety minute planning time. Now, I will talk about the characteristics of and effective school. These characteristics are common to all three school types.
Effective schools want all their students to learn. Effective schools have an understanding of their mission. The mission is to increase student learning. Effective school has high parent involvement. We must try our best to become a candidat3e that an effective school would want to hire.