Después de una revisión extensa, the administrative team has reached the following conclusions regarding the proposed grade configuration. La recomendación es la siguiente alineación:
Seis PK-3 escuelas de 350-450 los estudiantes
Cuatro 4-8 las escuelas de 650 los estudiantes
Las prácticas de enseñanza son el factor más importante.
K-3 schools were highly effective because the staff can focus intensively on the developmental needs of the young child. Teaching strategies and student interests are more similar with this age group. Esta configuración registraron aumentos significativos en las puntuaciones de los estudiantes. Research has also generally concluded that students in K-8 schools perform better than middle schools, but mostly based on the student-centered instruction that is similar to what students experience at elementary schools. We did not find specific research to say that one grade level configuration always outperforms another grade level configuration. There are suggestions that configurations that include lower grades in many cases outperform traditional middle schools (6-8 o 7-8), usually because these configurations are more student-centered.
La reducción de transiciones es también importante.
Las transiciones son las relaciones estresantes y la interrupción. Fewer transitions are connected to higher achievement (NREL, 1997). Esta nueva configuración se reducen las transiciones tres hasta un
en los grados PK-8.
Las nuevas pruebas de 4-8 agrupaciones
La investigación del cerebro sugiere que el desarrollo cognitivo durante el pico de cambios grados 4-8/9. Apart from the first five years of life, at no other time does the capacity and functioning of the brain undergo such an overhaul (Para una revisión completa, ver Liderazgo en la Educación, Abril 2011). By grouping these students together in manageable sized groups, staff can focus on meeting these needs.
El Laboratorio Regional del Noroeste para la Educación (NREL) suggests that districts need to look at their own configuration to meet the social, academic and developmental needs of students in their district. Con el fin de obtener los beneficios de un menor número de transiciones, and make the best use of our financial resources, sin embargo, mantener a las escuelas lo suficientemente pequeño, creemos PK-3 y 4-8 schools would best fit our district. La investigación del Laboratorio de Educación Regional del Noroeste (NREL), and other sources (véase más adelante) sugiere que los distritos en cuenta lo siguiente:
- Metas del sistema escolar para el desempeño estudiantil
- Una buena instrucción es más importante para el logro del estudiante de una configuración. Sin embargo, the configurations will help our teachers be able to collaborate across grade levels and with teachers who teach at similar developmental levels. También nos permite utilizar nuestros recursos de manera más eficiente. Por ejemplo, Nuestra lectura y matemáticas de los recursos se pueden compartir en un edificio con más facilidad cuando las necesidades similares se colocan juntos.
- Número de transiciones para los estudiantes afectados
- El distrito sólo tendría una transición de Pre-K hasta 8. This reduces our transitions from three to one. The problems with transitions can be helped by having good alignment between buildings and transition activities for students, but fewer transitions are correlated with higher achievement. We will be able to get to know our students and families well because students will be in each building for five years. We believe that one transition will not have as big of a negative impact as three transitions. We choose this over a K-8 school because of the opportunities for more teachers to collaborate at grade levels and because it allows us to be more fiscally responsible in aligning and purchasing resources.
- Escuela de diseño de edificio / diseño
- La investigación sugiere que el NREL para hacer que el 4-8 configuraciones de éxito, younger students should be separated from older students in different sections of the building. Having students in this configuration minimizes negative behavior often seen in older students because of the opportunities for leadership. The number of students in grades 6-8 will also be cut in half because of the students going to four buildings instead of two.
- K-3 (o PK-3) buildings were found to be very beneficial in order to allow the staff to focus intensively on the developmental needs of the young child. Teaching strategies and student interests are more similar with this age group. Esta configuración registraron aumentos significativos en las puntuaciones de los estudiantes.
- Número de estudiantes
- Nuestras escuelas medias actuales son 750 estudiantes y de nuestros 4-8 schools would have 660 los estudiantes. Nuestras escuelas primarias actuales se encuentran entre 275 y 400 los estudiantes. Our new elementary schools would be about 440 los estudiantes.
- Schools with larger grade spans and fewer transitions have more opportunities for cross-age activities, teacher collaboration across grade levels and higher parent involvement. Esta configuración nos daría 5 year spans to get to know our students and families and help to address their individual needs.
- Efectos sobre la participación de los padres
- The larger time span of students in a building helps to maximize parent and family involvement.
- El nivel socioeconómico de la población estudiantil
- El nivel socioeconómico de los estudiantes en el Distrito Escolar de Beloit es baja. Fewer transitions and better alignment of grade levels and resources will help our low socioeconomic students.
- Además de un menor número de transiciones y la alineación, the best help for students in low socioeconomic households is good instruction.
- Effects on costs and other schools
- Nos gustaría cerrar dos escuelas, la reconfiguración de nuestro personal para ahorrar dinero y crear
- Situaciones en las que sería capaz de reducir una parte del personal administrativo, secretaries, personal de apoyo y, posiblemente, el personal docente. Como en el pasado, we would use attrition for the reconfiguration of staff. Nuestro objetivo es no perder nuestro personal actual.
- Specialists would be able to better serve students because their time would be spent in buildings rather than spending time traveling between buildings.
- Los costos de transporte
- Estaríamos reduciendo nuestro número de edificios de dos, therefore reducing our transportation costs. This will also reduce the number of students going from building to building throughout the year because there will be fewer buildings. The summary of the research from NREL says that “no particular sequence of grade spans is perfect or in itself guarantees student achievement and social adjustment.” After considering social, el logro académico y emocional, así como los factores económicos, we believe that the PK-3 and 4-8 configurations best fit the needs of the Beloit School District.
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