In school improvement initiatives, the administration plays critical roles in monitoring the current situation of the school and coming up with methods to trigger change and propel the school towards the desired direction. Some of the school improvement plans touches on student behavior or administrative support to provision of instructional services, in this area, school leadership acts as curriculum developer and comes up with ways that facilitate learning, evaluating the progress of such improvement and making proper decisions based on the gathered data (Tereen & Blair, 2007). SIP Analysis Due to the changing school environment and learning dynamics, schools must continually come up with improvement initiatives to ensure the provision of quality education and that the school lives to its expectations in the society. The development tasks, as well as measurement progress, constitutes what is called school improvemen
...t plan. The plan covers critical areas within the school that need improvement, it then comes up with steps towards deleting the setback and placing in its position a condition that works towards the success of the entire school community.
The school improvement plans define the areas that need modification, both long-terms and short-term expectation of the initiative after completion of each milestone.
School Improvement Plan Report
- Does the SIP clearly identify the areas of weakness reflected in the district, state, or national assessments or other data?
- Is it clear from the SIP what problems exist in the school?
- List and briefly describe the school’s weaknesses in complete sentences.
Bullying- The school’s greatest problem is bullying. The major cause of bullying is the difference in age and social classes between the student. Students disadvantages regarding development, physica
development and socialisation skills are often the subject of bullying.
The most common cases of bullying involve the junior grades by the senior grades. High prevalence of obesity- The school is providing accommodation for the students, as such, the students do net get exercise by walking to school. Also, the schools lack good physical education programs to engage the student in physical activities that might assist in weight loss. Often, it is the student to engage in physical exercise without supporting staff.
Objectives:
- Are the objectives stated in the SIP directly related to low achievement?
- Has the SIP team considered how broad or narrow weaknesses are?
- Are the objectives measurable?
- Does each area of weakness involve many students or a few.
The school registered high obesity rates, 36% of the school population are already obese or have body mass index leaning towards the obesity side. Also, half of the school population are in junior classes thus suffer from bullying by the senior grades. The total population affected by the two problems is large. Key Factors: What does the school think is causing each weakness? Explain in complete sentences. The school believes that high instances of bullying are caused by inappropriate behavioural characteristics of the student population.
The student body is divided in “us-vs-them system, and each group tend to act unsuitable to the other. The high cases of obesity are as a result of little intervention by the school administration to engage student in physical activities as well as the provision of equipment to promote student health. What factors have contributed to each area of weakness? Of these factors has the school prioritised ones that can
be influenced or controlled? Explain in complete sentences. The lack of behavioural support and inclusion of physical activity initiatives in the previous school daily activities has contributed greatly to the disruptive behaviours such as bullying and lack of interest in physical activities to keep the students healthy.
The school has prioritised implementation of counselling programs to promote good behaviour among the student. Also, physical education and provision of related implements are prioritised by the school as ways to keep student within healthy BMI. Do these key factors indicate what the school thinks has caused or contributed to low student achievement? Explain in complete sentences. Cases of bullying make the student fearful of the school environment, as such, they cannot concentrate in their studies resulting in poor performance.
Both bullied and obese student as physiologically and physical disadvantaged to take part in academic activities. The school believes that this factor contributed to poor performance. Strategies and Activities of the Action Plan:
- Is there a strong relationship among the key factors, strategies, and activities?
- Are strategies and activities in the action plan clearly focused on what students, teachers, and parents will do to impact student achievement?
- Are the measures of success toward achieving objectives clear?
- Have all weaknesses been sufficiently addressed?
- Would the effect of implementing these strategies and activities most likely cause the school to attain its achievement goals?
Overall Plan: Does this plan have a chance of successfully improving student achievement? Explain in complete sentences. Reduction of obesity have the advantage of keeping the student within healthy weights necessary for a good learning. Also, elimination of bullying will reinforce the student’s psychological comfort thus participate
in learning activities.
Teamwork is a major component of school success. Is there evidence of teamwork in the SIP? Explain in complete sentences. The SIP consider teamwork between parents, teachers, students and administration of as key to the success of the development initiatives. This development plan features good teamwork expectations. How well did your school establish a critical relationship among its problem areas or weaknesses, the presumed causes of these weaknesses, and the plan for improved student achievement. The school started by considering areas that appear to have negative effects on the expectation of the school by reviewing data on the status of the school.
Key areas of complaints were identified and consider for improvement. The SIP was developed using the gathered data and in correlation with standards guiding the operations of a school.
Conclusion
One of the ways administration is in the best position to design and implement school improvement plans is their role as the main supervisory body, the administrator’s role in the implementation of school improvement plans pertains to supervising the process and ensuring that all part of the programs is in synchrony with the intended objective and proceeds as planned.
Reference
- Tereen, J., & Blair, C. (2007). Focusing on Student Behavior in School Improvement Plans. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
