Phase of problem-identification

If you would like to improve your own school, you must first come to terms with its weaknesses. That is often not as obvious as it seems: what one person finds unbearable may not be seen as drastically. 

Finding out what actually students and teachers find worth improving may be the first step of a phase of collecting information.

Possibilities of collecting information

The following measures are suitable to get hints about the school's problematic aspects:

• data collection (e. g. how many students do actually use the schoolyard? how often are there disruptions in a lesson?)
• observing students'/teachers' behaviour (e. g. what do students do during a break? how do teachers react to lesson disruptions?)
• survey with a questionnaire (e. g. how satisfied are students with the schoolyard? to what extent do students perceive lesson disruptions as a problem?)
• interviews
• online survey in the school's intranet