What is a school for       Omar Abou-Shady                                 m9

2007-2008

UEA 2007-2008

Omar Abou-Shady

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What is a school for


Introduction:

Not only all educators but also all parents are looking forward to having an ideal schooling system. Elaborates on the title of the research “The School’s core” I’m going to demonstrate what is a school for and how should it attempts to serve the learning needs through the core of the school which is in my simple point of view summarized in some important elements (the curriculum, inclusion and the needs of the pupils, assessment for learning, the things a successful school should do well and management of school’s resources).

The Curriculum

The school as an educational system has long been associated with the idea of curriculum but actually what is curriculum? Curriculum simply is a group of pre-planned, continuous and related courses of studies offered by educational system (School) starts and ends in a set of periods for the pupils at the same age. A definition for the curriculum taken by Vic Kelly and John kerr as, "All the learning which is planned and guided by the school, whether it carried on in groups or individually, inside or outside the school" Kelly (1983:10;Kelly 1993). We should look at the curriculum as a triangle has three vertexes, first as a body of knowledge, as process and praxis finally and as product.

  • The curriculum as a body of knowledge and how to deliver this knowledge successfully to the pupils.
  • The curriculum as process and praxis and how to stimulate the pupils to the curriculum during the process.
  • As a final episode the curriculum as product and what we need to achieve as outcome in the future.


Obviously the curriculum must match today’s people’s needs in order to work and live. Some people / teachers still equate curriculum with syllabus. Basically, syllabus means a concise statement or table of heading of a series of lessons for a subject with some additional notes, but the curriculum means a series of experiences in all fields which children and youth have by way of obtaining objectives what people need to know in order to work and live. This guides us to a related issue, Academic standard, what pupils should know and able to do, what they might be asked to do to give evidence of standard and how well they must perform. Great efforts has been committed in order to influence the core area of the curriculum (English, Mathematics science and native language) in the past. Now subjects such as history, geography, art and music are claiming their place in the curriculum. Clearly the idea of curriculum in all subjects has been increasingly recognised, core curriculum, extended curriculum all now are important and treated equally.

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Inclusion and The needs of all pupils

Richard Rieser (2003), has defined inclusion as, "It is a case based on the principles of equality and human rights." "Creating welcoming communities building as inclusive society and achieving education for all.", (Salmanca statement, paragraph 2, UNISCO 1994). Inclusion means all pupils have a place in the same mainstreaming.

Obviously, every child has the right to learn and have a place in as school and a place in a classroom. Starting from this point with believing in “inclusion”. All pupils must be included in the mainstreaming classroom. School and teachers are required ...

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