Change in Schools

Abstract

In this study we try to explore the concept of “Importance of Change in Schools” in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is on “Change” and its relation with “educational improvement”. The research also analyzes many aspects of “Change” and tries to gauge its effect on “performance of students”. Finally the research describes various factors which are responsible for “Change in Schools” and tries to describe the overall effect of “Change” on “educational reform”.

The Importance of Change in Schools

Introduction

Schools are an organizational set up and just like all other organizations, require monitoring on a constant basis for identifying areas of improvement. Nonetheless, implementation of educational reforms is done not as it planned and well implementation of the reforms is a rare sight, especially in United States which results in huge wastage of human resources, finances, and lost potential. Change in school setting can be described as adoption of an innovation which results in improvement on the part of students, staff, teachers or organizational operations. The ultimate goal of change in schools is to bring about improvement in outcomes by altering the ongoing practices (Addleson, 2003).

However, change process is inherently complex it's employees (teachers, staff etc.) that resist most to the organizational change, in fact sometimes create hurdles in the way of change by not accepting it, which ultimately results in more complexity when it comes to implementation of the change or innovation. Therefore, Schools need to have differing strategies in order to implement change or innovation which results in successful implementation and realization of fruits that a proposed change or innovation bear. Change in educational facilities, especially schools is highly important as these entities imparts education in the members of our society in their early age and if they become more effective in imparting quality education, we as a society will evolve further and will keep on leading the world just like we have led the world into the wonders of 21st century. In this research paper, we have attempted to describe how important it is for educational institutions such as schools to change and innovate in order to bring about improvement in the quality of education which will reflect in our society's evolved sense of decency and modernization (Bennett, 2001).

Literature Review

Every organization in this world goes through change in order to bring about improvement in its state of affairs. Schools are also an organizational set up that involve people, systems and processes to conduct their day to day operations. Innovation and change is needed in public as well as private schools. Private school require change in order to bring about improvement in the quality of education they offer to their students as well as to make their operations more efficient which ultimately results in financial savings and improved financial results. Public schools on the other hand are run on tax payers' money and require efficiency in their operations to run their operations on minimum cost possible and reduce the burden on taxpayers' ...