How to Find the Right Elementary School for Our Kids

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As a teacher,we should take the responsibility to teaching students,as well as arousing their interests in learning the subject. Meanwhile , I am the mother,and my boy will be the primary school student,so I worried a lot until I heard the lesson given by my favorite teacher Micheal.Now I would like to share the following 3 opinions of him which is about choosing the right elementary school.                                                          #1 Engaged kids. Lots of schools Will let you inside a class or two, but try to peek into as many as you can.Look at kids faces. Do they look like this(they like reding)or this(just yawning)? Don't judge too quickly but if you see a few classes Where half the kids look bored or disengaged, beware. Good teachers engage their students most of the time.                                          #2 Look for high expectations. And I mean, everywhere. For instance, Great Schools says that non-fiction writing can tell you tons about a schools academic expectations. They Say you should look for example of fourth or fifth grade writing or ask for sample if you have to. And while we are on the subject of high expectation, check out the bathrooms. Good schools will have high expectations for students, teachers,even the the custodian. So look at the hallways and the cafeterias too.                      #3 Look for positive school climate.Be sure to check out recess, it can tell you a lot about the school climate. How do people treat each other. Look for the bad and the good.                                            Although the standards are there, it’s hard for us to choose the better one for some reasons, and the best teacher is the parents ourselves. Do we really spend enough time with our kids? That  is the problem we teacher ourselves should face and solve!                           

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