Students are presented with a learning environment that is rich with relevant educational experiences, triggering the students' motivation to learn and grow. This model is particularly popular in improving the achievements of poor and minority students.
Accelerated Schools have the following goals: to continually estimate the effect of the system on student achievement, and to work at continually improving the existing methods of teaching and learning at these schools. Assessment is also improved on a continuous basis.
The ultimate aim of Accelerated Schools is not only to help students be effective, but also to excel in their chosen subjects and later in their careers. Students are assumed not only to have the right to education, but to have the right to excel in this education.
Each child is therefore treated as gifted. In terms of remedial students, this focus is based upon the philosophy that a child tends to perform according to a person's expectations. If a child is expected to perform poorly, he or she will. By expecting excellence, Accelerated Schools report receiving much better results.
By collaborating with all community members, the school becomes a support...
The school and the community in which it functions are treated as an organic organization, where all parts are to ensure that all other parts are in harmony. This harmony then results in academic excellence. All decision-making is then an inclusive process that primarily takes to hear the interest of the child.
In accelerated schools, no assumptions are made about the child. Instead,
children are empowered to make their own learning decisions. They are stimulated to perform at their best level, and to accelerate their own learning as they see fit.
In
conclusion, many different school models have been implemented over the years of professional education development. The most important development in recent times is that student needs have begun to take precedence over other elements in the
learning process. Paradigms such as Effective and Accelerated schools will have beneficial effects on
economic factors such as man power, the employment rate and the GDP.
It should also be recognized that children are very adaptive, and that their
creativity should be stimulated rather than destroyed by a set of rigid rules according to which the school is directed. Schools are there to serve children. Any school that does not do so does not deserve its name as an educational establishment.
Sources
MDRC (2007). Accelerated Schools Policy Framework. http://www.mdrc.org/project_28_15.html
University of
Oklahoma. (2007). Effective Schools. Center for effective schools. http://ces.ou.edu/effectiveschools.htm
