Blog Post 9

This week in class we took a look at "What a good school looks like" and we have came up with many different ways we can provide a good school for kids. Good schools for children should be a place where they can be themselves and explore the world through academics. There are many different things that schools are good at and it also is things that they are not good at. I have been doing my student observations at Millridge Elementary school in Highland Heights, Ohio and I must say this school is very good. The environment around the school is a very good one, the teachers and students have a good relationship together. Everything is ran very well because the teachers seem to know what works and what doesn't work. I think building a relationship with your teachers is very important because you want to know about each other and how you can get the best work from each other. Also, I think it is important to set up some type of relationship with the parents. It does not have to be a big one but one that shows the parents that their kids are in good hands. At Millridge this is the greatest example I have a good school because they are doing very well. Everything seems to be well structured and fits the kids very well. They also have a good amount of hearing impaired kids that they give them a lot of chances to interact with the other kids in the schools and this is very good because kids want to be like each other and interact with each other. Good schools really should be available to all kids no matter what neighborhood you live in and no matter your economic status. When we went on out different class observations together the three schools we visited were very good schools. They all were unique in their own way and proved to be working well for the different age group of kids that they had.