INSTITUTIONAL PLANNING

  DEFINITION:

Institutional plannutno in the basis of development and improvement prepared by an educational instih toview to improving the seeds and the resources available or likely to be available, principle of optimum ind the school programme and school able or likely to based on the principle of optimum utilization of the resources available in the school and the community.

OBJECTIVES OF INSTITUTIONAL PLANNING:

• To provide equal opportunities to all the pupils to get education
• To bring improvement in the structure of educational institution
• To give proper direction to functioning of educational institutions
• To develop a comprehensive programme of improvement of educational system in all its parameters by optimum utilization of existing resources within its reach
• To provide opportunities to the members of the local community, staff and students to treat educational institutions as a joint and co-operative venture and to bring improvement in educational institutions
• To give adequate freedom to teachers to innovative and creative ideas for the improvement of institution and other programme in the institution
• To impart realism and concreteness to educational planning
• To shift the emphasis from expenditure orientations to the effort orientation and proper utilization of the resources.
• To create democratic environment to enable every teacher, administrator, parent and students to take part in the formulation and implementation of the plan.

BENEFITS OF INSTITUTIONAL PLANNING

• It involves the teachers in the process of planning thereby making planning more democratic in nature
•  The preparation of the plan adopts the down to top approach where first hand knowledge about the strengths, weakness and the problems arising in the classroom processes and situations is available from teachers.
• It is more realistic because it is based on the data available from the stakeholders namely students, teachers and parents.
• It avoids wastage as it is formulated on knowledge about real needs of the students and the community

NATURE AND CHARACTERISTICS OF AN INSTITUTIONAL PLAN

• Need based
• Specificity
• Optimum utilization
• Augmenting human efforts
• Goal-oriented
• Co-operative in nature
•  Long and short term plans
•  Flexibility

SCOPE OF INSTITUTIONAL PLANNING

• Curricular activities
• Co-curricular activities
• Parent-school relations
• Community relations
• Action reasearch

PROCESS OF INSTITUTIONAL PLANNING

• The headmaster or the Principal of the school should be the chairman of this Planning Board.
• Teachers having some training in drawing out a plan should be represented or Board.
• There should be separate sub-committee, Vice Principal and Senior teacher should remain in-charge
• The Planning Board must assess the needs of the school and prepare the long term and short-term plans for the development. So the institutional plan seeks improvement in all directions. For this purpose, the planning should be system at and scientific.
• It should, therefore, be a working plan, based on the capacity of teachers the rem of the pupils and the local community.