How To Promote School-based Initiatives

HOW TO PROMOTE SCHOOL-BASED INITIATIVES

Yoshihito Nyamulani NAKAYAMA

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Contents Why School-Based INSET (SBI)? 2. District Education Plan (DEP) and SBI? 3. Action Plan to Promote SBI 4. Steps to Make Action Plan 1.

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1.Why School-Based INSET?  Decentralisation  Quality

of Education  School Knows about itself the BEST  Where there is a Need, there is a Way

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2. District Education Plan (DEP) and SBI?  What

is DEP?  How to make a programme for SBI along DEP? => Need effective usage of budget for each activity

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3.Action Plan to promote SBI  Shared-culture

(objectives, norms, knowledge) for:

 Structure

for:

 Activities

for:

 Planning  Implementation  Monitoring  Evaluation

 Management

(* Financial)

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4. Steps to make Action Plan Step 1: Knowing the Customers’ Needs What do they want through SBI?  Students  Teachers  Communities To know customers’ needs, what should we do? => Action Plan Manual 6

4. Steps to make Action Plan Step 2: Setting common and clear goals and strategy (5W2H) 2H 5W  What:  How:  Who & To Whom :  How much:  Why:  When & By when  Where To set the goal, what should we do? => Action Plan Manual

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4. Steps to make Action Plan Step 3: Identifying what we have in our existing resources Hard 3s  System  Structure  Strategy

Soft 4s  Staff  Style  Skills  Shared-culture Peters and Waterman (1982) In Search for Excellence

To identify what we have, what should we do? => Action Plan Manual

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4. Steps to make Action Plan Step 4: Identifying Gaps (Goals & Existing Resources) to attain the goals => Hard 3s & Soft 4s again Hard 3s  System  Structure  Strategy

Soft 4s  Staff  Style  Skills  Shared-culture

To identify gaps, what should we do? => Action Plan Manual

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4. Steps to make Action Plan Step 5: Draw Action Plan  Step

1: Needs  Step 2: Goals  Step 3: Existing Resources  Step 4: Necessary Support to fill gaps  Step 5: Mapping All these information on Action Plan 10