The B-E-S-T School

What standards should be met in order to be considered as a BEST school?

What are the factors that makes a school a good one?

In my observation in St. Paul-Pasig, I discovered that in order for a school to be acknowledge as the best school the following should matter to them foremost:

Benchmark of learning - Every school should be a place where students learn most. It is where they discover their gifts and acquire skills that they need as they face the present and prepare for the future. There should be a well facilitated environment and an atmosphere where respect and love for one another is of primary importance. They are not just doing business but are busy of influencing the lives entrusted to them. They should be a vast opportunity available to students in order for them to discover what their gifts are and be able to enhance those.

Efficient and effective teachers - No matter how well facilitated the school is if the teachers are not capable of transmitting excellent learning to the students that would still be considered as a failure to the school. An efficient and effective teacher is a must for a school to be considered best for they are the ones who think outside the box and are able to motivate their students to become the best of what they can be. They are good managers of classrooms and a good communicator of knowledge, they keep on learning but acknowledges that their is no monopoly of learning since they recognize their students are capable of discovering things for themselves. Indeed, The teacher is a great factor in order to become the best school. 

Student-centered - There is no better place to be considered best when you know you are the most important and your needs are the priority to be addressed. Same for a school that has no greater desire than to recognize what is the need of the students and are in the business of making better lives.

Technology (up to date) - Technology is a great tool in order to achieve excellence in learning, with all the inventions made today they are very helpful in reaching the student's need including wants. The school should recognize that they cannot do it alone without the help of what is IN today which technology is a big one. They should not be after to the Department of Education's standard but they have to consider that this is one of the essential factor for the enrollees since they are all aware and looking for something that they like that could motivate them to learn.

To be considered as the BEST School is just the reward of being in the business of transforming lives. Every school would like to be recognize as one but not all are ready for the responsibility behind it.

The Most Useful Aid

The most useful aid for the teachers to help them achieve their desired objective is through the use of Training Aids. They are the supplementary tools of teachers in order to achieve retention and mastery to the students but should be careful enough to take it as a replacement to the teacher for they can never be replaced by any training aids. 

Its purpose is best achieved when the appropriate aid is used to let the point or concept be understood by the students. The preparation will take time in the part of the teacher but it will surely help her in presenting her lesson in a way the student can understand and comprehend it, the manner of presentation should also be considered for it will affect its results.

Training aid should be readable and legible in the eyes of the readers and be visible from the nearest to the farthest person inside the room so the teacher should also consider the quantity of the learners. Part of preparing the aid is to make sure that it will be relevant to the topic at the same time up to date so it will be more easy for them to connect what the teacher is saying to what they are seeing in the aid.

Since training aids are designed to help the teacher it is expected that more than one of the five sense will be involve so the retention will be achieve at a more rapid phasing

Training Aids do have some disadvantages if not properly used, it can cause confusion to the students especially if what the teacher is saying is different from what is being presented by the aid or it could be that the teacher would depend on the aid alone for the topic to be explained.

If I were to ask what the most useful aid to use is, I should say the one that is most appropriate to the topic the teacher will present. Therefore, the teacher should learn how to carefully choose what aid would best fit her lesson.