My Ideal High School
My ideal school would be huge, lage and massive in size and numbers for the reason of resource accumulation and distribution. In terms of funding a school will get more and can allocate it in specific fashions in order to do bigger and better meaningful thing with it in a longterm paced and structured front. In terms of the curriculum it means more qualified and specialized teachers to teach a variety of electives.
My ideal school would not only assess students traditionally. Manditory multi-modal assiignments wouldmbe necessary. Just as children are themselves individuals, so should the way they become assessed. In addition, students would be required to build a portfolio that is tied to the real world, who they want to be or what they can see. Students must prepare one document (not for each course, but 1 for 3/4 of their course load) of their choice to be inserted into their portfolio that relates to how a subject or part of a subject contributes to the real world.
My ideal school is connected to the community with disciplines (attempting too; not all and not compulsory) connected to each other. It is so easy to connect a school to businesses, community centers, and volunteer/outreach programs. It so easy to have experts come in and talk about things on occasion, and it is so easy to have a couple disciplines intermingle collaboratively on a couple of projects and host days to display these (inter and intra) disciplinary works for the community to see……….assuming we had time.
