Unit 2 - Typology of School Culture

Question 1

Schools with similar contextual characteristics have different what?

Answer 1

mindsets

Question 2

Over recent years, _____ that describe and label different idealized types of school culture have been created.

Answer 2

typologies

Question 3

While such typologies cannot capture subtle nuances of individual schools and possible _____ within schools, they are useful as discussion starters to consider different facts of their school’s cultures.

Answer 3

sub-cultures

Question 4

Who developed a model for determining the school culture?

Answer 4

Stoll and Fink (1996)

Question 5

[Stoll and Fink] focused on the school’s current _____ but also argued that the rapidly accelerating pace of change makes standing still impossible, and therefore, schools are either getting better or getting worse.

Answer 5

effectiveness

Question 6

What are the two dimensions in which the two concepts enable school cultures to be examined?

Answer 6

effectiveness and improving-declining

Question 7

Effective and improving

Answer 7

Moving

Question 8

Effective and declining

Answer 8

Cruising

Question 9

Ineffective and improving

Answer 9

Struggling

Question 10

Ineffective and declining

Answer 10

Sinking

Question 11

Boosting pupil’s progress and development

Answer 11

Moving

Question 12

Working together to respond to changing context

Answer 12

Moving

Question 13

Know where they are going and have the will and skill to get there

Answer 13

Moving

Question 14

Possess norms for improving schools

Answer 14

Moving

Question 15

Appear to be effective

Answer 15

Cruising

Question 16

Usually in more affluent areas

Answer 16

Cruising

Question 17

Pupils achieve despite teaching quality

Answer 17

Cruising

Question 18

Not preparing pupils for changing world

Answer 18

Cruising

Question 19

Possess powerful norms that inhibit change

Answer 19

Cruising

Question 20

Neither particularly effective nor ineffective

Answer 20

Strolling

Question 21

Moving at an inadequate rate to cope with the pace of change

Answer 21

Strolling

Question 22

Meandering into the future to pupils’ detriment

Answer 22

Strolling

Question 23

Ill-defined and sometimes conflicting aims inhibit improvement

Answer 23

Strolling

Question 24

Ineffective, and they know it

Answer 24

Struggling

Question 25

Expend considerable energy to improve

Answer 25

Struggling

Question 26

Unproductive ‘thrashing about’

Answer 26

Struggling

Question 27

Will ultimately succeed because have the will if not the skill

Answer 27

Struggling

Question 28

Often identified as ‘falling’, which is demotivational

Answer 28

Struggling

Question 29

Ineffective: norms of isolation, blame, self-reliance, and loss of faith powerfully inhibit improvement.

Answer 29

Sinking

Question 30

Staff unable to change

Answer 30

Sinking

Question 31

Often in deprived areas where they blame parenting or unprepared children

Answer 31

Sinking

Question 32

Need dramatic action and significant support

Answer 32

Sinking