Case Study: POLYTECH High School, Woodside, Delaware.

Institution	Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA.
Titel	Case Study: POLYTECH High School, Woodside, Delaware.
Quelle	(2003), (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Academic Achievement; Academic Education; Academic Standards; Career Academies; Case Studies; Change Strategies; College Preparation; Counseling Services; Delivery Systems; Educational Change; Educational Improvement; Educational Practices; Educational Quality; Fused Curriculum; High Schools; Integrated Curriculum; Partnerships in Education; School Community Relationship; Teacher Expectations of Students; Vocational Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulleistung; Akademische Bildung; Berufsakademie; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Lösungsstrategie; Auslieferung; Bildungsreform; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Bildungspraxis; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; High school; Oberschule; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung
Abstract	POLYTECH High School in Woodside, Delaware, has gone from being among the worst schools in the High Schools That Work (HSTW) network to among the best. Polytech, which is now a full-time technical high school, has improved its programs and outcomes by implementing a series of organizational, curriculum, teaching, guidance, and leadership changes, such as the following: applied learning; integration of academic and career-technical curricula; smaller learning communities with common time for teacher planning; flexible schedules with longer class time; state-of-the-art technology; a strong student advisement program; community partnerships; work-based learning experiences; and alternative assessments. In 1993, POLYTECH was a shared-time high school where occupations were taught in isolation from academic subjects, a general academic curriculum was offered, and expectations of students were low. By 2003, POLYTECH had been transformed into a full-time high school where occupations constitute the core of an integrated, college-prep curriculum and expectations of students are high. The impact of this transformation has been reflected in improvements of students' average scores in the reading, mathematics, and science sections of the HSTW assessment and on the Scholastic Aptitude Test. Another factor credited for POLYTECH's turnaround are its reorganization into five small learning communities/academies (educational foundations, industrial, modern technology, professional services, and health/medical); more rigorous graduation requirements; and new emphasis on curriculum integration and coordinated instruction/assessment. (MN)
Anmerkungen	For full text: http://www.sreb.org/programs/hstw/publications/case_studies/03V01 _POLYTECH.pdf.
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC