Philosophy Primer

1. The purpose of school is...

1. To educate the students.
2. To development ones mind. It is where a united group learns and trains to become smart
3. To gain knowledge and understanding of certain subjects and information.
4. To best educate our future leaders and prime them for their upcoming life.
5. Is to get an. Education is highly important in getting a good job and creating a good life for oneself.
6. Is to instruct students, transfer knowledge and prepare children for the future.
7. To get educated and knowledge to help you in the world 

2. Faculty and staff in schools should...

1. Work together – The faculty and staff should work together as a team. Make it your goal to deliver outstanding service to your parents and students positive, personal connections can make a difference throughout the year. The warmth of a smile, a friendly hello and handshake can go a long way in providing a welcoming atmosphere.
2. Play critical role in ensuring a healthy school environment.  The faculty plays a pivotal role in helping to teach the students.
3. Treat their students as they would want their own children to be treated by another faculty member.
4. Use their knowledge and teach each child to the best of their ability.
5. Be broken down into specialization constituting a special area, have input from all, faculty staff students and suggestion from a parent/teaching team.
6. Collaborate with students, parents and administrators to give students the best education possible.
7. Should always be alert of what is going on in the schools. They should always be available for a teacher or and student. They should be willing to help a student at any time.

3. Curriculum should..

1. Be tailored to age, as well as grade level for each group of children.
2. Be up to date and comparable with the other schools in the area.
3. Be based on the requirements of the stat and standards and be on a level that each child can understand.
4. Be broken down into specialization constituting a special area, have input from all, faculty staff students and suggestion from a parent/teaching team.
5. Have a pragmatic purpose. Education ought to be about building learners' abilities to do useful things. What is important to learn is whatever helps learners do things that they want to do or that they can be induced to want to do. Therefore, if we want to detail the knowledge students need to have, we should first detail the things students should know how to do. Then we can determine what knowledge will be useful in each case.
6. Be aligned with state standards
7. Be up to date and taught to students in a way that they will understand and remember.

4. Instructional approaches must...

1. Be differentiated to each individual students abilities and weakness.
2. must have teachers constantly reflect about their work, observe whether students are learning or not, and, then adjust their practice accordingly.
3. Share lesson plans, that would provide platforms for teachers in the K-12 grades to share their best lesson plans with other educators across the country.
4. Be on appropriate level for the grade and children in the class.
5. Be student friendly to be able to keep the students engaged in the curriculum.
6. Be educational as well as mind-tempting and fun
7. Be given everyday and in away students understand.

5.  School leaders...

1. Should focus more on their students and faculty than making impressions in the political society.
2. Need to make sure that their ultimate goal is to provide the community with school that provides the students with the education.
3. Should demonstrate the proper qualities of what child and individuals should follow.
4. Should be instrumental in securing grants to conduct programs.
5. Should influence students to help achieve success for the school.
6. Should collaborate with teachers to help them reach each student.
7. May or may not be teachers, but someone who works in a school who can be looked up to for any kind of help.

6. The ideal school includes...

1. Teachers, students, and parents working together to help their kids grow academically.
2. All teachers working together to have their school and students reach their full potential
3. Everyone’s in put staff, faculty, students parents, community and instrumental in securing grants for programs.
4. An environment where each child has the opportunity to flourish and the ability to grow.
5. A highly qualified faculty and staff that really are concerned with providing the best education for their students.
6. High level teachers and staff.  Computers for every child, as well as some type of tablet where the students can borrow it for a week at a time and read as many books as they can.

7. Parents and communities need to...

1. Come together for the good of the children, and be sure to make improvements based on the needs of the children, not the needs that would promote them to additional levels.
2. Work together and raise money to give the students more.
3. Be heavily involved in all the school activities to ensure that the students are being provided with the best education possible.
4. Come together for the school and students.
5. Come together and work as a team, they need to be more involved.
6. Be involved with the school, adult participation sends the message that school is important and the work children do there is worthy of adult attention. In school-based physical activity provides numerous benefits. Research shows that youth participation in physical activity is influenced by participation and support of parents and siblings. When families are active together, they spend additional time together and experience health benefits.  Families can support a comprehensive school physical activity program by participating in evening/weekend special events and parents/guardians serving as physical education/activity volunteers. Community involvement allows maximum use of school and community resources (facilities, personnel) and creates a connection between school- and community-based physical activity opportunities.
7. Be involved with the students and school and up to date with the educational curriculum. 

8.  The major problems facing education today are...

1. Problems such as teacher attrition, parental involvement, and student reading ability may hinder progress in education.
2. Obesity, money economy financial grants programs, students performance, teachers attrition, cash-strapped budgets and ingoing economic uncertainty.
3. Children not having enough structure – parents need to back up teachers.
4. That in some schools the staff is always worrying about the budget and not really looking into what are the best opportunities for the students.
5. Students have no accountability for their actions. Parents run the schools and take their children’s word over any other.
6. Larger amounts of children in class and less teachers to educate them
7. Not enough money and teaching positions to teach students. Students are in over crowded classrooms where it is hard to get a good education.