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Educational Planning

•Topic: School Mapping and

Educational Planning
•Reporter: Ladylee L. Gepiga
 SCHOOL MAPPING
• - A dynamic Process of planning the distribution, size and spacing of
schools and physical facilities requirements for optimum utilization and
benefit.
• - It is a process of identifying current inadequacies in distribution and of
providing appropriate types and patterns of school plant.
• It is a continuous process involving the uninterrupted recording of basic
information required for analysis of the school map at any given point.
School Mapping Process

Specific areas of expansion

-Provision of new or additional facilities
Rationalization of existing facilities
-Diagnosis of the existing situation
-Environmental/ geographic factors
 School Mapping Process
Demographic factors- pertains to such characteristics of population as
size, growth, density, social structure, majority trends, school drop-outs
and retention rates, etc.
Economic factors- refers to per capita income, commercial establishments,
mass media, size of schools/ classes, etc.
Educational factors- includes the number of study hours per week and
their distribution by subjects, the number of pupils/ students per class,
normal length of time which premises shall be used and the possibility of
introducing double shift, teachers’ working hours, etc.
• Political factors cover those political and policy priorities
and constraints, which usually, dictate the creation or
expansion of specific types of educational institutions.
• Manpower factors- refers to the present and future
structures of employment which generally affect the relative
weights in educational contents and diversification.
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Thank You! 