MODULE 1: Lesson 1 Key Aspects of Planning Lesson 2 Fundamental Aspects of Educational Planning

1. Why is there a need for educational planning?

Educational planning is an instrument for providing the needed coordination and direction of the different components of an educational system. It also ensures that widely accepted long term goals, such as universal primary education, are approached objectively. It provides realistic appraisal of the countrys resources which is an important factor in the succesful implementation of the plan.

Through educational planning, a country indicates its willingness to effect an orderly change or reform in its educational system by bringing into focus the shortcomings or needs that hitherto had been ignored or unknown and so that appropriate action be affected.

2. As planner/administrator, how do you understand the term educational development? Suggest other facets of educational development.

Educational development as a planner or administrator means expanding the facilities to match numbers with needs of the clientele; diversifying teaching learning situations as well as their content to suit the varying demands of society; promoting lifelong learning through the provisions of education for all in-school and out-of-school youths and adults; and establishing an effective challenge response relationship between economic and social development, on one side and education on the other.Facets of educational development are physical infrastructure, access to education, quality of education and expenditure on education at different levels of schooling from lower primary level to higher secondary level.

3. What may bring about a feasible and workable education development plan in your region/division/district/institution?

To bring about a feasible and workable education development plan, all people involved in education should sit and discuss the different problems affecting education in their areas, bring out possible solutions, map out the right course as what their goals suggest and coordinate with the proper agencies in the government to insure its success.4. What do you think is the ideal approach to be used as basis of a planning activity in your area? Why?

EDUCATIONAL PLANNING FOR GLOBALIZATIONGlobalization is a process of penning up national economy to free market forces. The focus is on competition and the use of information technology to drive the revolution in the organization of work, production of goods and the provision of service. It is also transforming culture world-wide and recognizing relations among countries.Educational planning designed to meet the demand of Globalization should focus on improving the quantity and quality of skills in the labor force, with increased emphasis on the teaching of science and mathematics.

Under this approach, there are four main tenets: It calls for improving student achievement at all educational levels, with the goals of increasing labor force productivity to meet the demands of a competition-driven globalization process. It emphasizes the need for central government to establish clear academic standards and to relay these expectations to schools and parents. It calls for educational management that will inspire teachers and supply them with effective teaching alternatives in order to raise the cherished quality. It stresses the need for improved teachers recruitment and training.