Margaret Kwan's List: MITE 6023

nullDesign of school system:
1. minimize drop out:
One way of improving performance and preventing dropout is to identify at-risk students early and take action quickly. This means monitoring information on 
attendance, performance and involvement in school activities, and having a concrete response to improve outcomes and prevent dropout.
2. Good quality vocational tracks are essential. Removing an academic hurdle from entrance to general upper secondary education, and allowing access to tertiary education from vocational programmes
3. Student learning benefits from an effective school-home relationship, but weak support at home can hold 
back children from deprived backgrounds 
4. For classroom interventions to work, however, teachers need support to develop their techniques to help those pupils who are falling behind
5. improving communication with parents in the most disadvantaged homes and to help develop home environments conducive to learning -- 2012-02-25
6. monitoring students' performance
7. Information system that identify target groups
8. Allocation of extra resources
9. Extra support to under-performing schools -- 2012-02-25
10. Investment
11. building co-operation network -- 2012-02-25

nullChallenges of equity:
1. social cohesion
2. integrating minorities and migrants

Benefits of equity in education:
1. enhances social cohesion and trust. -- 2012-02-25
How to improve equity?
1. the design of education systems
2. practices both in and out of school
3. resourcing -- 2012-02-25
What is equity?
1. fairness - personal and social circumstances (e.g.ethnic origin and social backgrounds) should not be the obstacles to achieving educational potential.
2. Inclusion - ensuring basic minimum stand of education for all (e.g. everyone should be able to read, write and do simple arithmetic)  -- 2012-02-25

nullCollaborating with government at all levels with a view to coming up with a holistic approach in addressing educational concerns in Nigeria. -- 2012-02-25
A system that will insulate education from unn unnecessary politicization and a need for a holistic reorienation, re-engineering and re-branding of education, especially teacher training and recruitment. -- 2012-02-25
Address the problem:
1. A number of commissions, conferences and meetings have been put in place to examine the country's  educational system.
2. Various institutions are adopting various measures to address indecent behaviour among teachers
3. Government established institutions to formula (e.g. floor space for lectures and laboratory facilities per student ratio for effective teaching and learning in any given  discipline
4. Streamlined or reduced the number of diploma and part-time programmes -- 2012-02-25

School leadership team:
To drive a strong improvement agenda for the school, grounded in evidence from research and practice and couched in terms of improvements in measurable student outcomes, especially in literacy, numeracy and 
science

nullBalancing educator practice and student outcomes
1. student outcomes and educator 
practice=> an educator effectiveness performance rating.
2. Outcomes for students will come from multiple measures. Those include value-added data from state assessments, district assessment data, student learning objectives, school-wide reading at the elementary level and graduation at the high school level, and district choice data based on improvement strategies -- 2012-02-25
Educator evaluation based on:
1. instructional strategies
2. classroom organization
3. content knowledge
4. school culture
5. collaboration with faculty and the community -- 2012-02-25