房屋系统

几百年前的英国, boys' families would send their sons to tutors to learn what they needed to know. 有时, 这些家庭教师会让孩子们呆在家里, and what started out as individual tutoring became small classes of boys learning similar information. 偶尔, the boys living in one house would compete against the boys living in another house, 正如人们所预料的那样, 板球或橄榄球.

随着时间的推移, 彼此靠近的房子合二为一, 餐厅, 而且“管理”更有效率. Eventually these houses grew into schools, schools that we know as Eton and Harrow and others. The Houses continue to be the organizing system as far as academic oversight and advising. A boy's Housemaster works with the boy and his family for the student's entire career at the school.

因为宿舍的物理性质, 许多美国寄宿学校现在都有住校系统, 但是没有多少日制学校是这样组织的. 十大体育外围平台排名's Head of School Jim 康纳1760 thought it would be interesting to see if we could adapt the concept of a 房屋系统 to our 上学校 of boys and girls. 上学校 Dean of Boys and English teacher Ted Haynie received a grant to travel to England to explore the question, and visits to schools suggested to him that many attributes of 房屋系统s would pertain to GA's culture. 我们考察了采用House系统的学校, 在当时的高中校长约翰·鲍尔的领导下, 我们得工作了.

The 上学校 administration spent 2006–07 discussing and planning the implementation. We attempted to adopt parts of a variety of 房屋系统s in order to do several things. Some of these include the following: (1) streamline our administration so that one adult would oversee a child's progress for all four years of 上学校; (2) increase the involvement of advisors so that the work of advisors would take on added importance, making sure that all students receive acceptable care; (3) add to opportunities for faculty and students to take on leadership roles; (4) create a setting for more mentoring and tutoring among students; (5) increase opportunities for students to enjoy inter-house activities ranging from athletic tournaments to simple and fun contests (like Spelling Bees; Rock, 纸, 剪刀竞赛, 知识的碗, etc); (6) allow students to feel part of a select group rather than just be one of many (as one of seventeen freshmen in a house rather than one of 120 in a freshmen class).

新项目从2007-08学年开始实施. On the first day of school, seven new House Heads welcomed their 68 students to their Houses. Each of the seven Houses had 17 seniors, 17 juniors, 17 sophomores, and 17 freshmen. Each House had eight advisors, two for each grade level, and each advisor had about eight advisees. 每个三年级学生都是高年级新生的导师. 全体教员通力合作, 讨论学生，了解学校里所有的孩子, 不仅仅是他们自己的建议. 学生们得知他们将留在学院直到毕业, 他们会在哪个学院毕业. 高年级学生得到学院院长的拥抱/握手, 他们已经非常了解他了, 在获得文凭之前.

It was important to the faculty and students that we also continue the class activities that had been successful over time at our school. Dances and class trips and traditions like the Freshmen Retreat and Senior Projects continue to be organized annually.

七位众议院议长监督每位议员的日程安排, 出席, 家庭问题, 或者其他可能出现的问题. 学院院长也鼓励学生发起和组织活动. 他们与两位高级级长一起工作，他们领导众议院并主持众议院会议, 一周有两个早上. 学院院长们也每周开会两次，作为一个小组讨论学校问题, 为重大事件做计划, 并努力使各议院保持一致.

在最初的怀疑和不确定之后, 大多数教师和学生都开始欣赏这些变化. All the Houses have specific colors (and rugby shirts in those colors); they share a meal together many mornings; the younger kids interact with older students in ways that never would have happened before; seniors give "What's Important to Me" speeches to their Houses; and the ultimate—the House "Olympics," takes place to everyone's delight on a beautiful Friday at the end of the school year.

经过十多年的众议院制度, 它已经成为GA高中生活中不可或缺的一部分, 我们无法想象我们的学校没有它!