promising futures schools

These schools seem much more teacher and student friendly. The students are put into teams that they are with throughout their secondary education giving them a chance to become more comfortable in the classroom. Also, these teachers are given 100 students or less to be responsible for teaching. This class size seems much more manageable then 150 students or even more. It is impossible for teachers to make connections and rich lesson plans if they have too many papers to correct. Also, there would never be any time to connect with other teachers and collaborate lessons and units together.
The Promising Futures schools seem to give more of a connection and binding between the students and teachers. The teachers get a chance to know the students at a more personal and emotional level. This gives the teachers an edge and they can make the lessons more interesting to the students. The teachers are required to take risks and make connections with their lessons. Also, Promising Futures seem to really push for and support integrated units and lesson plans. This has been proven to get the students more excited and interested in school. I think that the more we can do to get kids to come to school and relate it to their lives the better.
There are 15 core practices that make promising future schools work. All of these practices need to be met in order to have this be successful and helpful for the students. The teachers need to start thinking more about how to make their subject interesting and come alive for their students. While the students need to be more open and accepting of all of the new lessons they are about to experience. It seems to me like this should work and it would be a great environment to work in. Everybody has a support system with the promising futures schools. There is a support system for the students and also one for the teachers all within their teams.
There are 19 curriculum and school strategies that are being “phased out” in order to further the learning of the students. This is what needs to happen. There needs to be a lot of new ideas and strategies implemented and a lot of the old and not so good ones need to go away. This is a tough transition for some teachers and even some of the students will have a hard time with it. However, it sounds like the Promising Futures is the good and strong way to head into the business world.