The Archipelago of nice teachers

If I walk through the corridors of a school and I see all doors of the classrooms closed, I start to fear about the quality of the educational level of the school.
Of course I can’t doubt the quality of the individual teacher behind those doors.
Probably she / he creates a great atmosphere in the classroom.
Walking there the sounds coming out of the hidden classrooms explain joy or chaos, instruction or co-operation, or mysterious silence. It is the professional arrogance of every educator that we ‘feel’ immediately what’s going on.
If all the doors are open and some children can work on the corridor, it proves that teachers made agreements, that they share at least a common idea about classroom management. But it doesn’t prove that they share educational philosophy.
Quality of the educational level and innovation, the instructional characteristics of the school has to be discussed permanently between the complete teaching staff.
The staff meeting gives direction to the teaching objectives and the educational development of the school.
Some school managers think that the archipelago of nice teachers make a good school.
The ‘helicopter view’ of open doors is like the pictures in a touristic brochure, it has to impress the tourists.
Open doors can be the start of a process, but it doesn’t tell anything about the consistency of the educational vision on education.