A School Improvement Plan (Benchmark Assessment)

A School Improvement Plan (Benchmark Assessment)

Introduction

The success of schools is important in order to promote the educational activities in country. Therefore school is a place where a high expectation occurs for everyone. Effectively improving and planning the action plan for making things right is an essential responsibility for school. The school improvement plan provides a blue print which help in developing goals and a framework which defines the mission of schools and strategy in order to achieve the goal and mission of school. It helps in setting the objective which helps in improving the learning of the students and improves the organizational effectiveness of the school. Every student wants to see their students successful but school cannot achieve success until and unless they develop any action plan for making a lasting difference. For making the lasting difference schools must focus on any specific goals and strategies for making the change. With the help of the improvement planning process schools can set goals which can help them in making effective decisions and identify the stage where achievement of goals is important. (Barth, Roland S. 1990)

The basic idea behind the improvement plan is to identify the levels which can help in enhancing the method for delivering the curriculum. The improvement plan also helps in developing and promoting the learning environment which had a positive impact on the level of involvement from parents in their children education. (Black, Susan. 1996) It is also an apparatus through which school can identify the ways in order to achieve the success not only for the schools but also for the student. With the level of success student having school can measure the improvement. There are several steps which need to be followed for developing effective improvement plan it includes the involvement of the parents, teachers, school councils and some of the members of the local community. These steps help the school to analyze and gather the information about the student of the school. In this assignment I will develop an improvement plan of the Title I school with the help of PDSA methodology the Plan, Do, Act and study is an essential tool for developing the improvement plan and it helps in comparing the information and data. The PDSA helps in developing the improvement strategy.

Discussion

I will discuss each component of the PDSA method differently in context of the Title I school.

Plan:

Title I school firstly should plan to restructure the restructure planning should start by focusing on the AYP benchmarks. With this benchmark category the Title I school must compare themselves with the intra district schools. This will help them in identifying the methods which can help them in building the strategies for notifying the parents of the students about their performance. On the other hand the restructuring process should be designed by taking the inputs of the parents, it will help the school to identify and receive the technical assistance from the parents. (Cotton, Kathleen. 2000) The choices of intra district will ...