How would you make school a better environment for learning?

Answer 1

give everyone laptops and maybe cute uniforms

Answer 2

Discipline. You always hear fellow students whining and complaining how boring and hard school is. That is a terrible attitude for making school a learning environment. Plus, even worse, we are making that idea trendy and culturally acceptable in the media, and socialization between students. We're embracing it. Now students feel that it's okay if they slack off, there is no pressure. That's part of the reason schools in America do not perform in test grades as well as other industrialized countries. Students need to grow up and take their education seriously! Without an education, your likely-hood of having a successful career is next to nothing. In order to enforce discipline, I don't think there is much the school can do. It's more of the parents job to do that, but you can't tell the parents how to raise their kids.

Answer 3

Ok depends on what is going no the school right now., if it's decent and has some money make more awards like if they have a 3.0 or higher GPA then they have a day's worth homewrok pass or something,get them motivated, and start patrolling the school cause it would be less likely for fights to break out. Do you guys have a student council? Maybe monthly fundraisers and sell somethings to the kids. just the school is nothing without the people in it

Answer 4

Motivated teachers that can interact with their students, good fresh air environment with trees and etc near school benches and etc. New ways of a festive school like having a school party for all year levels, new activities in the campus, and many ways of social activities that can enhance students to participate in school

Answer 5

Make them wear uniforms, so there's no rivalry about who dresses better, and no distractions from revealing clothes.
Ban cell phones, MP#s and all similar devices, too much distraction.
Make school more business like--while learning should be enjoyable, it needs to be structured.

Answer 6

Creating a Better Learning Environment Through Improved Communication
What is the homework assignment? Do you have any extra handouts? Is there practice today? When is the next meeting? These are questions that commonly plague high school teachers. So, how do we create a culture where students and parents are empowered to find the answers on their own without asking the teacher?

That was the challenge at Archbishop Mitty High School, located in the heart of Silicon Valley. With more than 80 classes, 54 sports teams, 30 clubs and 1,587 students, communication can be quite complicated. Our goal was to find a technology that could help us streamline communication with parents, students and teachers. We needed a program that would address multiple platforms and could easily be accessed from the Web. It also had to have a fast learning curve and adapt well to the needs of various programs.

Our challenge was answered by "Docutek atSchool," from Docutek Information Systems, which was originally designed for the university setting. It offers teachers an easy way to upload documents, set calendars and create discussion threads. A Mitty High School physics teacher was using the college version of the product at Santa Clara University and saw the potential for the program at the high school level. Philip Kesten, Ph.D., co-founder of Docutek and a physics professor at Santa Clara University, was also interested in adapting the program to the high school environment.

In the fall of 2000, we began using Docutek atSchool as a pilot project. Initially, a group of 13 teachers representing various departments was trained, and the results were impressive. Teachers could easily upload handouts and assignments, set up calendars and create discussion threads. They could even set up live chat sessions with students. In addition, parents and students could quickly add classes and be e-mailed about current events.

Using Docutek atSchool we were creating more efficient ways of communicating with our communities and beginning to create a different environment. Instead of worrying about lost handouts, dealing with questions regarding homework or playing phone tag with parents, we were creating a model where the information was available anytime students or parents needed it. This has had an additional benefit, because our school is on a rotational schedule and classes do not meet every day. Since students participate in retreats, field trips and sporting events, the ability to send e-mail to them offers an efficient way for teachers to stay in touch with their pupils. And since e-mail addresses are automatically gathered when a student adds a class, teachers no longer have to worry about setting up mailing lists.


One of the unexpected uses of Docutek came from our coaches and club moderators who saw the potential for posting sports schedules, downloading release forms and creating calendars. If students were curious about a club, they could easily add it to their list and be kept informed about the latest events. Parents who were not sure about practice times could easily check and be e-mailed any key events. In the same way that an academic course could have handouts, homework, announcements and calendars set up, extracurricular programs could also benefit from these features.

Answer 7

a lot of ppl are sayin uniforms but .. thats coz in America they let u where whatever u want!! but where i live u have to where uniforms and it's sooooo boring and u get fed up!! lol!! anyway maybe teach stuff in a fun way than standing up front and making every body bored lol!! hope this helps xxxx

Answer 8

uniforms. if kids aren't spending their time worrying about what everyone else is wearing then maybe the'll have time to study. school's a place to learn not a place to establish an identity.

Answer 9

I think school's should use alternative methods to teach so that they apply what they teach in real life ways. It can get really boring, especially when you know you will never need to know how to draw Nagel's Point.

Answer 10

have fun learning techniques, cool uniform, free laptops for every child, longer time for breaks.

Answer 11

smaller class sizes and more student interaction