ADVANTAGES OF

INSTITUTIONAL PLANNING

REPORTER: CLARISSA D. APALE

Institutional Planning
✔ is a program of development and improvement
prepared by an educational institution on the basis of its
felt needs and the resources available likely to be
available, with view to improving the school program
and school practices. It is based on the principle of
optimum utilization of the resources available in the
school and community.
The Objectives of Institutional Planning
:
1. To provide equality of opportunities to all the pupils to
2. get education.
3. To bring improvement in the structure of educational institution
4. To give proper direction to functioning of educational institutions
5. To develop a comprehensive program of improvement of educational
system in all its parameters by optimum utilization of existing resources
within its reach
6. To provide opportunities to the members of the local community, staff and
students to treat educational institutions as a joint and coo operative
venture and to bring improvement in education institutions
7. To give adequate freedom to teachers think to innovative and creative
ideas for the improvement of institution and other programs in the
institution.
8. To impart realism and concreteness to educational planning
Need and Importance of Institutional Planning

1. For Betterment and Improvement

2. To Give Proper Direction To Educational Objectives
3. For Maximum Utilization Of Resources
4. For National Development
5. To Encourage Initiative of Individual Teacher
6. To Encourage Initiative of Individual Teacher
Scope of Institutional Planning

1. Improvement of the school campus / improving the

school plant
2. Improvement of Academic Facilities
3. Improvement of Co-curricular activities
4. School improvement projects
Benefits of an institutional planning
1. It involves the teachers the process of planning thereby
making planning more democratic in nature
2. The preparation of the plan adopts the down to top approach
where firsthand knowledge about the strengths, weakness and
the problems arising in the classroom processes and situations
is available from teachers
3. It is more realistic because I it is based on the data available
from then stakeholders namely students , teachers and parents
4. It avoids wastage as it is founded on knowledge about real
needs of the students and the community