Define Institutional planning its Meaning and characteristics for students guide

Institutional planning

Meaning and Definition of Institutional planning:

While new planning should commence mostly from below, some planning is needed from above also.
thus, planning should be two-way process, starting from below, from the very grass-roots, from what is called ''institutional planning.''

Institutional planning has been treated as the basic unit or grass root level of the larger educational planning.
when a plan is prepared by a particular institution on the basis of its own development and improvement, it is called institutional planning in which each secondary school must have its own plan.

According to M.B Buch. ''Institutional planning is a programme of development and improvement prepared by an educational institution on the basis of its felt and the resources available or likely to be available, with a view to improving the school programme and school practices. it is based on the principle of optimum utilization of the resources available in the school and the community.''

The Indian Education Commission 1964-66 opines that every educational institution can do much more through better planning and hard work to improve the quality of education within its existing resources. most of the planning needs to be done in the school itself. the institutional plans should be drawn by the institution concerned with the active co-operation of the teacher. to achieve this end, each institution should have a planning board. representing teachers having some training in drawing out a plan. it must involve the staff, parents, students, inspecting officers and other educationists in the locality. this plan can be also of short term and long term too .
it is based on the principle of maximum utility of resources available with school and the community.

By foregoing discussion, the following points are thershed out-

1. Institutional planning is a means of accomplishing widespread targets of education.

2.For the construction of institutional planning knowledge is necessary of human and physical resources.

3. Maximum utilisation of available resources which are available with institution and community.

4. This plan may be of long and short term both.

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Characteristics of Institutional planning:

1. Need Based-

Institutional planning is prepared on the basis of felt needs of school by officials of particular institution.
these needs may be relating to school organization curriculum, co-curricular activities etc.
study-teaching programme, class-teaching- teaching method, vocational development of teachers and improvement in environmental conditions etc, needs related with this aspect which leaves direct effect on learning of students, come under extension area of institutional planning.
thus, institutional planning is based on felt needs.

2.Specificity-

Each institution in itself is unit and that unit has its specificity. along with, it has its specific problems. it has got its spreed of development. it has got its own specific resources available with it. thus, institutional planning is the plan of particular institution. that plan cannot be applied on all institutions.

3.Principle of optimum utilisation-

Institutional planning is not expenditure oriented notwithstanding it is based on the principle of optimum utilisation of available resources of the institution. at the time of construction of plan, this fact is estimated that how many and what types of resources are available in the institution.

how far community can manage the additional resources and what can be the optimum use of these resources. thus,institutional planning is based on capacity and power of institution.

4.Augmenting Human Efforts-

Institutional planning on one hand stresses on optimim utilisation of human and materialistic resources and on the other hand also pays accent on augmenting human efforts. that stress on augmenting their working capacity, experience, presence of mind etc.

5.Goal oriented-

Institutional planning is goal oriented. end of this planning is to achieve the poals of education. these goals are qualitative and quantitative both. to achieve these is the end of institutional planning.

6.Co-operative-

Institutional planning is co-operative in its nature. in it at all levels, participation of related persons and agencies, is sought. role of all are included in it.

7.Reflects the state and National Educational policy-

In institutional planning, with one's view, the national and state educational policies are also reflected. because, the institutions are the units of accomplishing national and state educational policies and their goals.

8.Flexibility-

in institutional planning schools are at liberty for preparing their efforts and programmes according to situation and demand. this liberty takes out institutional planning from the circumference of hardness.
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