Doing a Feasible and Workable Educational Plan

Rina Lyn B. Tolentino

Plans provide a rational approach to preselected objectives. According to Akpan (2018), educational planning plays an important role in the transforming the nation since education is viewed as the key to unlock the door for development and progress. It pertains to systematic and scientific way of decision making in order to achieve set goals and objectives through optimal use of available resources within a specific time frame.

Clear and concise goals and objectives are needed to accomplish a plan. Identified goals and objectives should be realistic, measurable, attainable, simple, and timebound. Collaboration of keen minds and skillful hands must be observed in planning. Planning process should be participative, holistic and bottom-up. The goals and objectives must be articulated to every member of the institution to increase success rate. If the administrators, teaching and non- teaching personnel as well as the community, parents and students are committed and aware to the instructional objectives, procedures, priorities and norms it would be easier for the supervisor to secure cooperation and support for the realization of institutional goals.

Availability of resources must also be observed in planning. The budget is on one of the fundamental planning instruments. Adequate and proper allocation resources to priority activities for the attainment of the objectives will make the plan feasible. Planning and budgeting are always interconnected. Implementation of plan will be possible if there is financial support. According to Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development or OECD (2017) budgeting is the translation of programs, projects and activities into their resource requirements which are expressed in financial terms. It allocates resources to specific actions deemed necessary to achieve predetermined objectives. Additionally, a time element is introduced within which resources are made available and activities are to be carried out.

Strategies and activities are also important factors to be considered in planning. They should be aligned to the goals/ objectives and achievable considering the budget of the institution. They should address the specific problem that can be resolved by doing and accomplishing particular activities with well-defined result over a definite period of time. The strategies and activities will serve as tools on how to address and overcome the problems presented for the attainment of the desired goals and objectives.

It is also notetaking that a plan must be put into action, monitored and evaluated to make necessary adjustments. Planning does not only bridge the gap from where we are to where we want to go; it makes possible for things to occur which would not otherwise happen.

The author is Teacher

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III at Angeles Elementary School, Angeles City