1. A Look at Qualities of Effective Schools
Instructional Practices in Education and Training

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What is an Effective School? Allow students to share their ideas of what effective schools are.
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4. What do you think are the QUALITIES of an effective school?
Allow students to share.
What are the characteristics or qualities of an effective school?
Does our school display those characteristics and qualities?
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5. How do you identify an effective school?
Allow students to share.
How would you identify an effective school?
How do you know that our school is an effective school?
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6. What are the OUTCOMES of an effective school?
Allow students to share.
What is the outcome of having an effective school?
Why do we care as educators?
Why do you care as a future educator?
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Is this an Effective School? This is an image of an old school building established in 1916.
Ask the students if they think this is an effective school.
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This image is of a modern school.
Does this make it an effective school?
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This is an image of a one-room school house.
Is this an effective school?
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This is an image of a classroom in a poor country.
Is this an effective school?
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This image is a digital classroom.
Does access to technology automatically make a school effective?
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12. What Makes a School Effective?
Answers will vary.
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13. How have your personal experiences shaped your views of education?
Think about your personal experiences as a student and the qualities of an effective school that we discussed.
How have your personal experiences shaped your views of education and your view points of what an effective school should look like?
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What does this quote mean? How does it relate to the qualities of effective schools?
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16. References and Resources
Images:
Microsoft Office Clip Art: Used with permission from Microsoft™. (Slides 4, 13, 14)
Shutterstock™ images. Photos obtained with subscription. (Slides 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15)
Websites:
About Education
Top ten characteristics of a quality school.
Association for Effective Schools, INC.
Correlates of Effective Schools
Characteristics of Effective Teachers
This collection of characteristics of teachers was collected from various research studies. This site has other useful resources and links.
Code of Ethics
This website sponsored by the National Educators Association provides an overview of ethics for educators.
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17. References and Resources
Websites:
Code of Ethics for Educators
This website sponsored by the American Association of Educators provides an overview of ethics for teachers.
College of Continuing Education at the University of Oklahoma
Seven Correlates of Effectiveness
Texas Education Agency—-Code of Ethics
This site has the Code of Ethics and the Texas Administrative Code for Texas teachers.
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