Saturday, November 8, 2014

School Development Plan – What, Why and How?

School Development Plan is a document with a list of activities prepared by a school on the basis of its ‘at hand status’ which are to be conducted in future to achieve the targeted objectives in targeted timeframe (short term or long term) with appropriate strategies and plan of actions.

Objectives:
Broadly, the objectives of preparing School Development Plan are as under:
● To ensure universal enrolment, retention, Quality and completion of elementary cycle at appropriate age.
● To ensure child-friendly, barrier free, safe and attractive school environment for pedagogical processes
● To ensure Special Training to Out of School Children of school neighbourhood to put them in the age appropriate class
● To ensure physical infrastructure along with all-weather school buildings
● To ensure higher order learning in children with holistic development
● To ensure community and civil society partnership in all developmental activities of the school

Who makes the School Development Plan?

School Management Committee with following composition makes the plan:
★ 75% parents or guardians of the children admitted in the school (parents or guardians of children belonging to disadvantaged group or weaker section of the society are to be given proportionate representation in the Committee)
★ 25% representatives of teachers, panchayat and senior citizen of the society
★ 50% members of the Committee should be women

Major steps involved in the preparation of School Development Plan: 

Step 1: Status Assessment – Conduct of diagnostic activities and listing of problems
Step 2: Prioritization of identified problems and conversion of prioritized issues to goals
Step 3: Devising actions/steps to achieve the goals


Status Assessment or Diagnostic Activities 

a) Conduct household survey: This will find out the age-wise, gender-wise, economic status-wise, parents’ occupation-wise, CWSN population of school going and out-of-school children within the boundary of that school neighbourhood area.

b) Conduct institutional survey: Institutional survey reveals the status of infrastructure, teachers, teachers’ attendance, students’ attendance, number of school inspection conducted by education officers, availability of playfields, sports/games materials, musical instruments, TLE, TLM, reading corners, laboratory, library, etc.

c) Listing problems or the areas which need improvements: Make a list of issues identified through these two surveys like 3 children in the age group of 6 to 14 years are out of school out of which 1 child is orthopedically impaired, attendance of the students coming from BPL family is poor, shortage of TLM, no girls toilet, etc.

Prioritization of Problems

■ Prepare another list of problems on the basis of its urgencies of solution.
■ Segregate the prioritized problems into two categories – i) Short Term and ii) Long Term

Devising of Action/Steps and Review Strategies

♥ Identify solution levels of each issues to be solved and prepare a list of actions or activities to be carried out to solve each issues, include monitoring/review activities for each issue at each level of solution.
♥ Make chain of activities along with the sub-committees to perform it, monitor/evaluate it and re-plan it if original plan fails.

Plan Submission

Bind the plan into a book form and place it in Gram Sabha for discussion and sanction

Review of Progress

Conduct periodical review meetings to monitor the progress of plan targets.

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