Organization and Evaluation in Elementary Schools

Theoretically the organizations of a school is the administrative expression of educational theory. Organization may be viewed as the structure of the framework within which teachers, pupils, supervisors, and others operate to carry on the activities of the school. Theoretically this structure should vary according to the difference in educational theory underlying the objectives, curriculum, and method. One might reasonably assume that the organization or framework within which teachers and pupils operate would be differently in a school accepting the organismic view of learning, the child development view of the curriculum, and the experimental philosophy of education than it would be in a school professing rather singular reliance upon the stimulus-response theory of learning, the subject-matter view of the curriculum and idealism as a guiding philosophy. The function of organization is to set the state and to facilitate the application in the classroom of the kind of education one desires for children and the method whereby children may get it.