The document discusses several topics regarding a high school including positives like engaging teachers and resources, as well as potential improvements. It notes students have many classes per term, making it difficult to focus, and suggests using "team teachers" and mixed classes. Other proposed changes include giving students more independence, hands-on work, opportunities to critique each other's work, and improving literacy and community/culture building.

1. Senior Leadership
Presentation
High Tech High

2. Positives

3. Technology Field
 Students have access to amazing resources
 Resources could lead to great projects
 Teachers are engaging and students are interested

4. Physical Education
 Taken as a serious course
 Balance between exercise and education
 Teaching valid and important subjects that relate
 In America, Physical Education (class) is not taken
seriously but rather as a joke

5. Teacher Support
 Understand the demographic of students
 Provide resources and help
 Most students have respect for teachers

6. Improvements

7. Schedule
Observations Ideas
 Students have too many  “Team Teachers”
classes per term
 Core classes daily, other
 Since they are constantly classes rotated through
moving, it is difficult for each term
them to focus and build
 Cross-curriculum
a relationship with each
teacher  Mixed classes

8. Independence
Observations Ideas
 More open work time and
 Teachers spend most of activities in class
class time lecturing
 Give students a voice
 Students easily
disengaged from class  Give students
responsibility, if students
abuse their
privileges, take them
away

9. Hands-on Work
Observations Ideas
 Mostly non-existent  More student interaction
 Students spend most of  “Hidden learning”
class time note-taking
 Finding real world
and listening to a teacher
connections to what they
are learning in the
classroom
 Let students experiment
and see where it leads

10. Student Critiques
Observations Ideas
 Students do not get the  Students can read each
chance to see each others writing and help
others work each other with ideas
 Students don’t get the and grammar
chance to get an outside  This also helps the
opinion of their work teacher before marking
before turning it into the
teacher.

11. Literacy
Observations Ideas
 Students struggle with  Create Projects! Projects
grammar/sentence are an excellent way to
structure improve any subject in a
 Numeracy/Literacy seem fun environment (this
below average goes for anything)
 Students read each
others work

12. Community/Culture Building
Observations Ideas
 Students stick to their  Create school-wide
grade level and group of assemblies for students
friends to interact and present
to their peers
 Lack of student work
presented throughout  Student work on display
the school  Tutorial could act as an
“advisory” or
“homeroom” with mixed
grade levels