Topic : Trends in Educational Planning
a. Planning for Quality
b. Participatory Planning
PLANNING FOR QUALITY
• Quality Education
– is the appropriateness, relevance and excellence of the education given to
meet the needs and aspirations of an individual and society, (R.A. 9155).
Quality Plan
- A quality plan is a document, or several documents, that specify quality
standards, practices, resources, specifications, and the sequence of activities
relevant to needs of every learner.
Basic Elements Influence the Quality of Education.
1. The Teacher and Teaching Methods
- has the teacher access to the teaching material needed to satisfy the
requirements of the curriculum? Is the teacher present in the classroom when
he/she is supposed to be?
2. Educational content
- Are the curriculum and the teaching material relevant? Are basic literacy and
numeracy skills sufficiently emphasized?
3. Learning environment
- Is the learning environment healthy, secure, protective, inspiring and adapted
for both girls and boys?
4. School management
- Do teachers have clear parameters for how they should teach and treat pupils
and colleagues?
5. Preconditions for pupils
- Has the pupil been exposed to special challenges such as natural disasters,
abuse, child labor or AIDS?
6. Funding and organization
- Funding and organization are two important requisites for all six key elements
and they are mainly a national responsibility.
OUTPUTS OF THE QUALITY PLANNING PROCESS
• Quality Management Plan
- describes how the program management team will implement the performing
organization’s quality policy.
• Quality Checklists
- is a structured tool – usually in graph or table form, and component-specific,
used to verify that a set of required steps has been performed.
• Process Improvement Plan
- details the steps to be employed in analyzing program processes, with a view
toward identifying wasteful, non-value-added activities and increasing the
value received by the performing organization per dollar spent.
• Decisions Concerning the Quality of Education
- The improvement of the curriculum through the use of needs assessment
surveys.
- The use of examination "backwash effects" to improve teaching and
classroom assessment.
- The use of examination results for monitoring the performance of schools and
school districts.
- The use of information from well-designed research studies to improve
teacher education.
PARTICIPATORY PLANNING
- is a set of processes through which diverse groups and interests engage
together in reaching for a consensus on a plan and its implementation.
LEVELS OF PARTICIPATORY PLANNING
• Information
• Consultation
• Deciding together
• Acting together
• Supporting independent community initiatives
WHO SHOULD BE INVOLVED IN A PARTICIPATORY PLANNING PROCESS?
1. TARGETS OF CHANGE
- Targets of change are the people at whom the intervention is aimed or whom
it is intended to benefit.
2. AGENTS OF CHANGE
- Agents of change are the people who make or influence policy or public
opinion.
a) Policy makers
b) Influential people in the community
c) INTERESTED MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY
d) MEMBERS OF THE ORGANIZATION ITSELF
References:
https://asq.org> quality-resources
www.chs.ubs.ca >archives> files