Saturday, January 27, 2018

Issues in Educational Administration


By Sultan 

HRM
                     Types
                     Human resource management
                     Physical resources management
                     Financial resources management
                     Information technology (IT) or informative resource management
            According to the British Institute of Personnel Management :
            “Personnel Management can be defined as “that part of management which is concerned with people at work and with their relationship within an organization.”
                     Resource Management
                     “ In organizational studies, resource management is the efficient and effective deployment for an organization's resources when they are needed. Such resources may include financial resources, inventory, human skills, production resources, or information technology (IT)  “ Wikipedia
                     *Now also called resource sharing
            According to American Management Association:
   Human Resource Management is that field of management which has to do with planning, organizing and controlling various operative functions of procuring, developing, maintaining and utilizing a work force in order that
                     Relationship
                     Resource management in education institutions
                     Role of school administration in resource management in school Level
                     Restructuring  of the resources and   management of educational organizations
                     Shortage of teachers, especially local female teachers in certain rural areas.
                     Importance of Resource Management in Schools
                     To enhance the quality and quantity of education in school Level
                     To improve the provision of resource inputs in schools
                     Physical resources management
                     (Problems face by administrator in education institute)
                     schools lack physical facilities including buildings, furniture, mats and even very basic necessities like blackboard, chalk, and charts.
                     Lack of schools building
                     Lack of HR and teachers
                     Lack of other resources water, Fan, Electricity
                     Lack of labs 
                     Lack of Play grounds
                     School Canteen
                     School Dispensary
                     School Furniture
                     Hostel
                     Classroom 
                     Staff Room
                     Principal office
                     School Hall
                     School Furniture
                     Hostel
                     Class Room 
                     Parking area for students and teachers.
                     Washrooms (Toilets)
                     Lawns and gardens
                     transportation problem
                     Suggestions
                     Use the same school building and start second shift classes.
                     use the same HR and other resources  to minimize cost and improve the salary of teachers to motivate them.
                      sharing of  resources between schools
                     Sharing of labs 
            SRIs in the school setting.
                     At present in Pakistan, SRIs (School resource inputs)
   are inefficiently used or misused, even in some schools unused
                     In budget 2009-10 speech in the National Assembly, the minister introduced four significant reforms for Improvement of education.
                     Utilization of existing resources by educational institutions is one of them
                     Optimal use of the resource inputs available in the institutions.
                     Research in Pakistan
                      Dahar, Iqbal & Faize (2010),
                      Dahar, Faize, Niwaz, Hussain and Zaman (2010) research study show.
                     “Both  studies concluded that the less provided SRIs are inefficiently and ineffectively used in the educational institutions”
                     Recommendation of the study
                     “The study concluded that practical laboratories (PLs) have positive and significant relationship with the academic achievement. Likewise, it is also concluded that if PLs are better provided and used efficiently and effectively, PLs may have larger effects.  It is also concluded that if the school basic facilities and instructional material are better provided and used efficiently and effectively, they may have larger effects”
                     Decentralization of education
                     The Local Government Ordinances
                     2001 provide a way for the establishment of a three-tier local government system comprising districts,
                     .
   Rehabilitate/up-grade physical facilities in existing primary schools.
                     Institutional Reforms: Public/Private Partnership and Community Participation Programmes through:
                     Restructuring and Strengthening of Education Foundation. Establishment of Village Education/School Management Committees and School Councils (making them legal entities).
                     Devolution Plan for District based planning, management and monitoring.
Resource management efforts in Pakistan
                     Resource management efforts by different governments.
                     Plans were prepared and even some implemented but due to lack of interest and supervision  on the part of government the  desired results was not achieved.
                     Schools function at places provided by the community free of charge.
                     These may include public places, Mosques, community centers, buildings
                     Computer literacy programme in government school in Evening shift
                     Use the same school building and teachers for Evening shift classes
                     Sharing of playground with other schools
                     Financial resources management
                     Buget Making
                     Buget planning is the most important duty of the administrator because for this he need the vision to forecast the probable expenditure for the year. What school will need, how much amount will be required for that. It is one of the major problem in the educational administration.
                     Internal Account
                     Keep check and balance on the staff member to prevent any miss use of school funds

School Fees; School fee is the most important financial source of any school administrator, therefore he needs to address this issues seriously to improve the financial problem of the school.
Improve the quality of education in school will improve the enrolment of students in school, which will improve the collection of Fee
                     Information technology (IT) or informative resource management
informative resource are also very important. Without proper informative resource no school can achieve his goals successfully. In Pakistan informative resource management is very serious problem for education administrator because of the financial restraint school administrators are not able to provide them in their schools. Some of the informative resources are;   
1.                  Resource Person
2.                  Library
3.                  Laboratory
4.                  Computer laboratory/internet
5.                  Instructional Material
            Visual Aids
            Audio Aids
            Audio-Visual Aids
6.                  The School diary,        Student diary,  Teacher diary, School Timetable
            School record
7.    Books,       Text Books,      Reference Books

Friday, January 26, 2018

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT IN PAKISTAN


by Dr. Sultan Muhammad  Khan

Keywords ;  curriculum development in Pakistan,  Problems of Curriculum Development Process, Problems related to objectives, Problems related to content,Problems related to methods,Problems related to audio-visual aids,Problems related to evolution.

 Problems of curriculum development in Pakistan and suggestions for its improvement

Falling education standard is one of the most favorite topics for discussion at our social gatherings. Everyone has his own views and experiences to narrate and ultimately, to lament and then recall the good old days when everything was at its best.
It is a known fact that our educational standards are one the decline. We have progressed in quantitative expansion but gone backward qualitatively, in the government policies there are planning and recommendations for the revolutionary steps but the progress in negligible.
We have innovative ideas but unable to implement any positive change effectively. That is why we could not achieve the desired goals. We have many leaders in education but most of them are without dedication to work. We have many schools, colleges and universities but they are working only to award certificates and degrees to the students without changing their attitude. The students are just memorizing facts and information from their text material without developing proper concepts to apply in daily life. Teachers are following conventional methods such as the lecture. Textbook recitation and notes dictation. The innovative methods are not followed even in teacher training institutes. The textbooks are also theoretical ignoring the activities. All these and many more are the curriculum related problems. These problems are identified by various policies along appropriate recommendations as given on the next page.

 Problems of Curriculum Development Process

If we look to the various phases or elements of curriculum development process. So many problems can be indicated i.e.
  1. Problems related to objectives.
  2. Problems related to content.
  3. Problems related to methods.
  4. Problems related to audio-visual aids.
  5. Problems related to evolution.

  1. problems Related to Objective

The curriculum development is a continuous and dynamic process, having some goals to be achieved though classroom activates.

The effectiveness of curriculum process depends largely upon the extent to which these goals are achieved. If the objectives are formulated in clear an behavioral terms, their achievement becomes easy. The objectives formulated for the existing curricula are mostly ambiguous and non behavioral such types of objectives can be considered as invalid. Some of the objectives are too broad to achieve and some of them are not related to the socio economic conditions in the country. There are certain objectives that are not according to the psychological needs of the learners.
  1. Problems Related to Content
It has already been mentioned that curriculum development is a dynamic process. So it must be flexible enough to be changed from time to time along with the changes occurring in the society. But in our country, researches in curriculum development are very rare which make it static.

Some of the defects of existing subject matter are as under;
  • The content is not selected on the basis of research.
  • To content does not help in the achievement of desired goals.
  • The content is not suitable to the life situation of the learners.
  • There is a lack of horizontal and vertical coordination in various concepts.
  • The content does not demand active participation of learners, instead it encourages rote memory.
  • Logical sequence (when required) is missing.
  • The subject matter does not help in the development of understanding, indicative reasoning and desired creative abilities.

  1. Problems Related to Methods
The problems of curriculum development related to methods of instruction are:
    • Methods of instruction are not suggested by the curriculum planners.
    • Methods of instruction which are being followed in the classroom do not help in the achievement of desired goals.
    • Teachers take last interest in inquiry-based methods.
    • Participatory or communicative approaches are not followed in the class.
    • Methods are not helping the learners to develop various skills.
    • The existing teacher training programmes do not fulfill the requirements of the innovative methods.
    • Teachers are reluctant to follow activity-based methods.
  1. Problems Related to Audio-visual Aids
  • Lack of sources and resources educational institutes affects badly the implementation proves of curriculum development.
  • Teachers are not properly trained preparation and used of low cost material.
  • The curriculum planners have not given any guidelines to the teachers to use the local resources as audio-visual aids.
  • Charts should be accurate but it always missing the third dimensional attribute and must be viewed from a fixed position
  • The aids must be relevant to the concept need to be developed
  • the audio-visual should be interesting for the students
  • chalk board is the oldest aid of teaching but chalk is a source of pollution and it all depend on teacher hand writing
  • power failure (electricity) problem, it sometime damage audio-visual aids
  • Hardware problem in electronic AV aids
  • Overburden class room, the problem of visibility of small charts to all students
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e. Problems Related to Evaluation
·         Proper evaluation programme is not suggested by the curriculum planners.
·         The test items are not related to the objectives of the relevant course.
·         Most of the test items are ambiguous.
·         Only cognitive aspect is emphasized in evaluation.
·         The content validity is very low existing evaluation system.
·         The concept of continuous evaluation in to applied.
5.3 GENERAL RECOMMENDATION FOR CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

  • The curriculum should base upon native research and not on the basis of opinions of experts.
  • Some of the enthusiast working teachers should be involved in curriculum development.
  • The objectives must be spelt out in specific behavioral terms.
  • While setting the objectives, equal weightage must be given to all the domains such as cognitive effective and psycho-motor.
  • Curriculum should be future oriented to cope with the needs of 21st century, which is expected to be scientific and technological
  • Curriculum should be activity based
  • Curriculum must provide a high order of understanding inductive reasoning and application of knowledge in the situation
  • Instead of product based instruction, there should be an emphasis  on processes of learning
  • Curriculum should be according to the social, cultural and economic conditions of the country
  • Teachers guides should be prepared to provide them help in instruction
  • Curriculum planner must suggest a proper criteria for evaluation
  • The test items must possess a high content validity
  • The test items must help in the achievement of desired goals
  • The test items should be objectives valid and reliable

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