New trends in

educational
planning
Markee Joyce Galan
Lady Grace Soledad
MaEd-Educational Management
 Planning
‐ is the formal process of making
decisions for the future of the
individuals and organizations. Plans
are statement of things to be done
and the sequence and timing in
which they should be done in order
to achieve a given end.
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 Educational
Planning
- It is a program of development, new
achievements, instructional work, co-
curricular activities, etc., prepared by an
educational institution on the basis of its felt
needs and the resources available with a
view to bringing improvement in the school
and its practices.
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 Educational
Planning
Characteristics: in the past
1. It had been a centralized affair,
2. It had been carried out as a high level planning.
3. It had been purely expenditure-oriented and not
task-oriented or result-oriented.
4. It did not involve the teachers in its preparation
or even in implementation.
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 Educational
Characteristics:
Planning in the past “
5. It did not emphasize the implementation part and
the full utilization of the already existing material
and human resources.
6. It did not attempt any planning at the level of
institutions.

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 New trends in the
planning process
1. Progressive measures of
decentralization of educational
planning.
2. Emphasis on implementation,
administrative and methodology
sides.
3. Preparing plan from the
institutional point
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Need and importance of
educational planning
“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.”
- Sh. J. P Naik
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Need and importance of
educational planning

“By recognizing each institutions as a

unit, it is quite easy to develop
District and State Educational Plans.”

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Need and importance of
educational planning
The teachers, administrative officers
and even students will assume their
rightful leadership role in the process
of educational reconstruction.

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Need and importance of
educational planning
“The whole notion of institutional
planning is based on this idea that
every stage right from the school to
topmost level in the field of
education, constant effort has to be
made in order that we do not have
new ideas for the sake of new ideas
but in order that we can do a better
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Need and importance of
educational planning
“Since the implementation of the
plans and programmes is as important
and vital as plan formulation,
institutional planning has a special
contribution to make in national
development.

- Dr. B. D. Nag
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Chaudhari
Need and importance of
educational planning
“Planning for each school and college
has an advantage that it brings to the
plan formulation process realism, an
appreciation of the felt needs of the
community and an awareness of the
difficulties and the problems at the
operational level.
- Dr. B. D. Nag Chaudhari
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educational
planning
1. It is need-based, not expenditure
based.
2. It attaches more importance to
the existing material and human
resources and instead of going
on with demands for more; it
endeavors to make optimum
utilization of the resources in
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educational
planning
3. It is prepared by the local talent,
i.e., by the joint efforts of the
headmaster, teachers, students and
interested citizens. It is a
cooperative venture of the
community, management, school
staff and the students.
4. It is result-oriented.
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educational
planning
5. It is specific for an institution.
There cannot be a single plan for
all the institutions.
6. Apart from involvement, it
results into motivation for
students, teachers, management
and the community.
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educational
planning
7. The institutional planning
eliminates wastage.
8. The plan is prospective.
9. It is continuously developing.
10. It forms the basis for the
District, State and National Plan.
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THANKS!
Any questions?
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