Educational Planning and Management

Contents: Preface. 1. Educational management. 2. Educational development. 3. Objectives of effective administration. 4. National policy on education. 5. Recommendations of Kothari Commission. 6. Programmes of Education for all. 7. Managing educational transformation. 8. Fifty years of educational development. Bibliography. Index.

"Now-a-days in developing society, the need for planning and management is essential. Teacher as a manager has to organize is classes and contribute to the total organization of his school. The relationship between the school and the community around has to be fruit fully maintained by using appropriate managerial skills of teachers and school administrators. Education needs to be universalised by adopting the rules and regulations formulated and implemented by the government. Operation of the rules depends on the managerial skills of tail end functionaries. For their success, every school should have the necessary data, resources to be collected, organized and recorded.

Educational planning is necessary if organizational excellence is to achieved in our public schools. it focuses the attention of administration, board of education, teachers, students and community members, and helps determine where the school district should be going and how to get there. it helps identify where the pitfalls are over the short-term. Without planning, the operational and functional performance of the school district will be less than optimal and the overall objectives and goals of the district will be difficult, at best to achieve. Educational planning is an organized thought process participated in by administration, board of education, teachers, students and community members. The ultimate result is the determination of long term goals and objectives, and the short term implementation of specific goals using focused techniques, tactics, and strategies which will permit the school district to meet long term goals and objectives."