Organizational Characteristics of Schools

The move to create an alternative form of education has readily gained momentum in different parts of the world. The number of alternate schools like street academies, international schools, primary schools, open universities etc has successfully established and continues to increase. These alternate schools differ from the traditional schools on the basis of various organizational differences consisting of the way the students are grouped, the arrangement of these groups in schools and the instructional techniques adopted and implemented by the school staff.  The alternative schools vary by the flexibility they have in student grouping or by the absence of the organizational constraints in free schools. While technique adoption and implementation varies in different schools, let’s chart down the different organizational characteristics of such schools and how it impacts the student performance:
Procedure of student enrolment: The public schools have absolutely no terms and conditions for the student enrolment, while the private and independent schools check student’s background, abilities etc before enrolment. Though, such selection criteria are deemed as unfair by many, but on the brighter side, it provides your child with a regulated environment comprising of the students with similar tastes and abilities.

Physical Organization: As traditional schools provide with the series of equal sized classrooms, the learning tends to get monotonous. While the teachers rotate, the students are confined to a single classroom throughout the day. Thus, understanding its negative implications, the alternate schools like Cognita Schools, provide the students with different class room sizes and shape, thus keeping the students interested and entertained.
Grouping techniques: The traditional schools group the students as per the horizontal and vertical criteria. The vertical criteria are the grades that they attain and the horizontal criterion is their age. Thus, this restricts student interactions and wrongfully categorizes them. The alternate schools on the other hand provide the flexibility of choice to the students. For e.g. if a student wants to pursue an advance course, they can do so with an older students. In present times more educational institutes and schools including Cognita are trying to create conducive learning environment for students with better techniques.