What has been done to achieve a student friendly school?

Introduction

Good Morning Students.

You have conducted research in order to find out the perceptions of how student friendly the George Charles Secondary School is. You have also gotten some suggestions from the participants about what can be done to make the school more friendly.

Today, you are going to broaden your knowledge by finding out what others have done to make thier school and the schools of others more student friendly.

Task

Working in your groups, I want you to find the following:

  1. What is a student friendly school?
  2. What are two features of a student friendly school?
  3. What are THREE strategies that can be done to make the school more student friendly?
  4. Expain  THREE reason why ONE of the strategies is going to be effective in our school.

Process

So.. now you know the task... Now you need to know how you are going to go about completing this task.

Firstly,

- Ensure that you understand the task by reading and discussing the questions

- Write a plan as to what you need to do to complete this assignment

- Assign a task to every member of the group

- Complete the information gathering process and ensure that all the questions have been answered

Here are some useful websites which will help you to complete the assignment (Ensure that ALL responses to questions are in your OWN words)

NOTE: Copy and paste link into web browser to access the webpage or video

http://www.unicef.org/lifeskills/index_7260.html

http://www.unicef.org/teachers/environment/friendly.htm

http://www.ungei.org/resources/files/age_png_cfs_finalreportx6provinces…

http://www.futurefriendlyschools.org/

http://www.globaleducation.edu.au/case-studies/child-friendly-schools-i…

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/article/College-Student-Journal/312618…

http://friendlyschools.com.au/fsp/information/whole-school-approach-inf…

The following are some useful videos..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ksFagtQEK4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn_O6ny03BA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNYcoqtU2VA

Evaluation

Therefore, you are going to be graded on the following..

1. Your roles in the group (Group Leader grades according to rubric for peer assessement)

2. Assignment Plan (showing how you plan to complete the activity)

3. Role of each group member

4. The completion of the task

  1. What is a student friendly school? (2 marks)
  2. What are TWO features of a student friendly school? (2 marks)
  3. What are THREE strategies that can be done to make the school more student friendly? (6 marks)
  4. Expain  THREE reason why ONE of the strategies is going to be effective in our school. ( 15 marks)

Total for today's assignment: 25 marks

Conclusion

I hope that you have worked very efficently in your groups and that you learned quite a lot. Moreover, I do hope that you have broadened you understanding of what a student friendly school is, as well what can be done by the entire school population to make it a more student friendly place.