Characteristics_Of_Effective_Schools

Characteristics Of Effective Schools Introduction: Everyone agrees that successful schools are desirable. In an effective school, students will probably achieve the highest standards of knowledge and education that will make them effective members of their society. Effective taught students would help progress and build an effective and producing society. The effectiveness of any school is built on many factors. An effective schools has many characteristics such as; effective leaders, effective teachers and an effective environment. Each and every one of these factors has its own features and ideas. In the following pages, we will have a brief look at each characteristic and explain it. We will try to identify the main features of the effective school and which factors are the main ones in improving our schools. School effectiveness: School effectiveness needs a definition. It was defined by Georgopoulos & Tannenbaum (1957: p.534) as ‘the extent to which any (educational) organization as a social system, given certain resources and means, fulfils its objectives without incapacitating its means and resources and without placing undue strain upon its members’. While Mortimore (1991:p.9), also defines effective schools as ‘ones in which pupils progress further than might be expected from consideration of its intake’. There is little doubt in our school, effective, effectiveness, should, teachers, students, learning, schools, staff, leadership, student, important, factors, environment, achievement, leaders, community, climate, vision, teaching, progress, process, parents, good, classroom, work, teachers’, support, stoll, reynolds, lagerweij, improve, hopkins, creamers