Strategic planning for the school principal

The most important competencies principal of the school or educational leader ability to strategic planning for the school or institution of education, because the capacity of school director in the preparation of that plan included his work in his school to achieve efficiency and effectiveness, and the importance of strategic planning to identify long-term planning and help the school to identify priorities with provide the best service in the needs of the school. Characterized by the strategic plan as a flexible and practical so as to be to make adjustments when necessary, as reflected in the Strategic Plan of feelings and ideas, and developing the strategic plan requires a lot of discussion and review all the views put forward for construction.
They were numerous definitions of the strategic planning process in that this process focused on performance-based study and predict the future by answering all questions related to what and how? Therefore, the strategic planning process is the vision of one organization in the future provide a framework to give direction to the options that determine the future direction of a regulation, can be formulated the following definition based on the concept of the Strategic Plan as a tool for the organization at the present time based on what we want to achieve in the future, It represents a map or a guide to lead an organization or institution within five years or more, so that this plan is simple, written, and clearly based on the current situation is carefully thought through to allow for reconstruction and formulation quietly because of urgency in preparing the strategic plan could be signed by the principal problems many.
One of the main obstacles that are related to strategic planning, poor plan in the face of rapid change in the environment which leads the strategic plan into a corner, where the plan provides a solution to such changes and the parent to confirm the strategic plan successful response to changes in the operating environment of the institution.
The design of the strategic plan should include the most important goals and targets to achieve the mission in a clear and measurable, explained John Bailey yeliaB nhoJ in an article entitled planning strategy in the Journal of Leadership in 1981 need to answer five questions about strategic planning are:
* Where are we now (status quo).
Q: How do we get to what we want?
* Where are we going (direction)?
* Where should I go (the desired direction)?
Q: How do we get to what we want (strategic plan)
To achieve the answers to those questions have to be held workshops specific, so that the headmaster of a series of procedures and clear methodology for the strategic planning process, so the focus of the workshop the first to assess the current situation and how you got the school to this situation, the second workshop focused on trying to answer the question Next to where we going? And where we want to go? During the two workshops is to collect information and to examine the ideas put forward to put all these things and discussed at the third workshop concerned with the process of planning and classification information that is collected, and participate in three workshops of all stakeholders in the school of teachers, parents and students.
In the subsequent phase is the formation of a committee called the Committee on strategic planning which consists of a group of stakeholders in the school with skills and develop a methodology of work to achieve the Strategic Plan This methodology involves the following steps: Planning: the ability to identify opportunities, analyze problems, identify priorities and needs, the allocation of resources available, the development of policies and procedures, objectives, performance standards, expectations, budgets, programs and schedules. And the role of the school principal in this process is to have a methodology based on them through the knowledge that planning is essential to the process of directing the work and have a strategy and channels of communication through the process of engaging stakeholders and coordination between them, the composition of teams participating groups in the planning through the identification of short-term objectives and long-term and the nature of , and must have the capacity to design activities, and capacity for evaluation and review.
Identification of resources: this would require determining the time of the implementation plan and identification of human and financial resources necessary to implement the plan design: the ability to identify problems that must be addressed, and objectives of the plan and the development of hypotheses to address these problems through the information available, and the last step is the design of the proposed plan with the availability of the capacity of Director to analyze the plan in terms of quality, quantity, and this requires identifying assessment tools required.
The question arises how the school director to be achievers in school without being has a strategic plan? How can I see the future of his school in the near term and long-term without a strategic plan? How can the label of educational leader on the principal of the school without having the strategic plan? Many questions arise in this area, but may check the school some of the achievements without the Director of a strategic plan is in fact the achievements of real-time, improvisational and spontaneous can not be fixed or paint the school's objectives to be achieved, a Time without strategic planning is a school without a vision, mission and the basis of existence school.
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