EDTHP 115 2/3/03 Announcements Papers due this Friday (Feb. 7) Review Sheet for Test #1 (Friday, Feb. 14) handed out this Friday Readings and pages to focus on: This week: History, Chap. 6 pp pp Webster, Rush, Jefferson

EDTHP 115 2/3/03 Educational Reform I.The significance of international comparisons II.Effective Schools III.Other Types of School Reforms and approaches to schooling

Questions for Today Who is involved in educational policy and reform? What are some of the other major approaches to educational improvement? What makes a school “effective”? What does study of specific examples tell us?

Recent Reforms (see pp , , ) Improving Instruction –Which approaches are the most effective? Choice Whole-school reform efforts Systemic Reform Standards-based Reform

Improving modes of instruction—which are most effective? (pp and Chap. 14) Subject-centered? Student-centered? Activity-based? Direct Instruction? Cooperative Learning? Critical Thinking?

Effective Schools Research (pp. 491 ff.) ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS Safe and orderly environment Clear School Mission Instructional Leadership Climate of High Expectations High Time-on-Task Monitoring of Student Progress Positive Home-School Relationship

Effective Schools (con’t.) Other features that contribute: –Curriculum alignment –Professional Development –Goals involving cultural pluralism and multicultural education –Social skills and attention to student problems –Faculty who strive to improve students’ sense of efficacy –Targeting interventions on low-performing schools

Effective Schools (con’t.) HIGH SCHOOLS Help upon entry Avoid rigid grouping (tracking) Schools-within-a-school Career academies Smaller high school units in general

Whole-School Reforms (pp. 498 ff.) Success for All Coalition of Essential Schools Comer School Development Program New American Schools Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration Program (1998)

Success for All Extensive Training for School Staff Acceptance by School Staff Intensive Instructional Support Cooperative Learning and Mastery Instruction No other reforms in that school