Stacey and I went yesterday to interview the Principal at St John's. It was a lot of fun and very informative. Stacey has videoed the interview and will select parts to be included into the "School" part of the group assignment.
I have created a power point for the day so when we get together we will be able to add our individual parts to it.
Here are the questions we asked the Principal.
• How would you define student success?
• As teachers what is their defining role in supporting student success?
• What are the influences you feel affect students’ abilities to achieve at school.
• Research by Henderson and Epstein indicates that parents are integral in ensuring student success. Therefore, as principal how do you encourage parents to become more involved in the classroom.
• In lower primary many parents are involved in the classroom, why is it then do you feel that in the upper grades, which are more academically focussed, parents become less visible in their children’s learning environment and how can this be rectified ?
• Whom do you believe benefits from standardised tests such as NAPLAN?
• As a parent, what do you feel are the benefits of homework and do you agree that it assists in student success?
• With the introduction of the new National Curriculum next year, what affects will this have on teachers, students and parents?
• What methods will you use, to inform parents, about all the new changes and what do you believe will be the positive and negative outcomes of all these?
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