Different School Models

Different School Models

Preface and Purpose

This essay classifies the requirements when facilitating students to accomplish their goal of enhancing potentially. This entails supporting students to classify their educational ambitions then assisting them to design, plan and avail educational activities and opportunities. It also entails supporting and encouraging students when they perform educational tasks and assignments and evaluating how effectual the activities have been performed. In order to achieve these purposes, a methodological study was conducted. The study selected and targeted Amityville High School and Stony Brook College. In this context, interviews were conducted with two teachers on each school. The interviews were conducted via telephone. The reason behind selecting schools of different models was to compare and contrast the two different school models, which included a high school model and a research university.

Aims and Objectives

Following are the primary aims and objectives for conducting the study:

To analyze the two different school models;

To compare the type of teaching and learning that occurs within each school; and

To understand what each school has identified as a priority, as well as, what are the top issue(s) each school or classroom is facing.

To identify key statistics that includes school demographics and student to teach ratio.

Discussion

School A: Amityville High School

School B: Stony Brook College

Differences / Similarities identified between schools

Type of school

Public high school

Public research university

The type of school is different as school A is a high school and school B is a research university

Total population / demographics

More than 700 students

More than 24,500 students, more than 150,000 alumni base, 2,954 faculty, and total 13,500 employees.

Since the type and school model are different, therefore, population and demographics are also different

Student to teacher ratio

As there are around 59 full time teachers working in Amityville High School, therefore, students to teachers ratio is 12:1

According to http://www.stonybrook.edu, student to teach ratio is 18:1

Because of difference in population, student to teacher ratio also vary

Key issues facing

Since several schools and high schools from other countries are now competing with the US education system, thus US education system is no longer presumed as the magnet for the top students in the world. Due to some major social concerns, several students drop out. These concerns include teen pregnancy, drug use, violence, poverty, and hunger. Mental and Physical health care should be enhanced.

Funding issues, Teacher's willingness to make students engage in classrooms, awareness to reduce racism, discrimination, and culture conflicts, and Teachers should practically explain, instead of only using multimedia and power point files. Some other issues include output expectation, process expectation, and improvement in research tools.

Key issues experienced by both the schools are somewhat similar and fairly different, as well.

Role of technology

Technology has transformed the role of teachers in schools, it facilitates students to emerge out as more independent, and a teacher has now become facilitator. The use of technology facilitates students to explore innovative and advance solution to their problems; desks made with wooden flip-lid have been replaced with laptops and iPads.

Other than university portal, Stony Brook College should design its own apps, so ...