Institutional Planning

Institutional planning is the process of thinking, deciding and willing so that an institution becomes a model institution according to its purpose. It is a programme of development and improvement prepared by an educational institution on the basis of its felt needs and the resources available or likely to be available with a view to improving the school programmed and school programme and school practices, constitutes a plan for and institution. It is based on the principle of optimum utilization of the resources available in the school and the community.

NEED AND IMPORTANCE OF INSTITUTIONAL PLANNING

1. FOR BETTERMENT AND IMPROVEMENT

All institutions have some plans. All the heads of institutions make plans and each teacher also plans. In fact, each headmaster and teacher does plan but this planning my not be systematic adequate and clear. This planning may not exist in a definite or regular form. Planning may mostly be routine planning of the syllabus time table and examination etc. and it may not exist in a definite or regular form and it may be repeated from term to term and from session to session without much thinking.

2. TO GIVE PROPER DIRECTION TO EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

Institutional planning will give you right direction to the educational planning in the country i.e., the upward direction from bottom to top. In the normal trend followed today the direction of planning is from top to bottom. Institutional planning is the recognition of the role of administrator’s teachers, parents, students, educationists and social reformers in the process of planning of education in the country.

3. FOR MAXIMUM UTILIZATION OF RESOURCES

Institutional planning leads to optimum use of the existing resources. As a nation we face a great scarcity of resources with increasing needs and demands from every quarter. Therefore, we must plan for maximum utilization of scarce resource.

4. FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Educational planning must fit into the overall national planning for developmental purposes. As such it gets importance from the need for collective efforts of the people. In the words of B.D. Nag Chaudhari, Since the implementation of plans and programmes is as important and vital as plan formulation. Institutional planning has a special contribution to make in national development.

5. TO ENCOURAGE INITIATIVE OF INDIVIDUAL TEACHER

Institutional plan encourages initiative freedom and creativity of the teacher makes the individual teacher effective. It motivates them too strive harder for achieving excellence. It draws out the best of the teachers.

6. FOR DEMOCRATIZATION OF PLANNING

Institutional planning democratizes the process of planning because it takes into confidence the students the teachers the parents and the head of the institution. Sh.J.P.Naik says, “A major reform, I propose, therefore is that the planning that resembles an inverted pyramid should be broad-based and decentralized by introducing the system of institutional plans.” He strongly planned to have a fine blend of the centralized and decentralized systems of educational planning in our country.

MAJOR OBJECTIVES (PURPOSE) OF INSTITUTIONAL PLANNING

The institutional planning should be based on certain predetermined objectives. All activities planned should help directly or indirectly to achieve these ends. One depending upon the circumstances and needs of the school, the objectives may be short term and long –term.

Following are the same main objectives

Sh.J.P. Naik, Education Advisor, Government of India, has listed the following four objectives of institutional planning:

1. Giving freedom to the teacher.

2. Making the good teacher effective.

3. Involving every teacher in the formulation and implementation of plans.

4. Emphasizing what can be done here and now boy mobilizing our existing resources.