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CURRICULAR AND CO CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
What are curricular and co curricular activities
Curricular Activities:
Basically speaking activities encompassing the prescribed courses of study are called curricular or academic activities. In simple words it can be said that activities that are undertaken inside the classroom, in the laboratory, workshop or in library are called “curricular activities.” These activities are an integral part of the over-all instructional programme. Because in the organisation of these activities or programmes there lies active involvement of the teaching staff of the educational institution.
Co-Curricular Activities:
debates, news paper reading, essay and poem writing
Broadly speaking co-curricular activities are those activities which are organised outside the classroom situation. These have indirect reference to actual instructional work that goes on in the classroom. Although no provision has been made for these activities in the syllabus but provision has been made for these in the curriculum
Eg: debates, news paper reading, essay and poem writing,educational tours, speech programmes, celebration of national and international days are included, model making coin collection ,stamp collection, organising camps sach us first aid camp cleanliness week ,a celebration of the special day.
VALUES OF CO CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Improves Communication Skills
Communication skills are extremely important in today's competitive world.
Moreover, kids need time to understand how to express themselves, active participation in the debate, or extempore speech can help them relinquish their barriers.
Develops Methodical Time- Management Skills
One needs to learn time allocation and management in their school life itself.
Balancing scholastic activities with co-curriculum activities will help your kid understand the important principles of work-life balance.
Inculcates Moral Values and Decision-making ability
Our sense of justice and moral values stem from early childhood. Even though various factors like family background and individual traits play a key role, participation in co-curricular activities helps kids gather their thoughts.
Teaches Self-motivation
When a kid struggles to learn a new skill in early childhood, he or she experiences failure and feels rejected at times.
However, they keep trying and learn to motivate themselves. Identification and rectification may sound complex for kids in junior grades but a few kids astonishingly pick up their grades after performing poorly in an examination.
Analytical Ability
Participating in the Mathematics Club or Mathematics exhibition is an engaging recreational activity for kids.
These activities include games and mathematical modeling alike which can be fun and challenging at the same time. These activities help children analyze situations on their own. Kids can also solve puzzles and simulations on Cuemath to build analytical abilities.
Develops Patience
Children can be very restless at times and this might create problems during examination. Kids tend to overlook important details associated with questions.
Comprehension can also be cumbersome for some kids. Mental Math or Math Puzzles help kids comprehend better. In the process of light-hearted learning, kids tend to develop patience and interest.
List of some co-curricular activities
Let's look at a few co-curricular activities to have a better understanding of all the activities which are available for your kids. While picking a school for your kid, you might as well have a look at all the co-curricular facilities the school has to offer. The list is inexhaustible as schools and education boards are constantly updating the available activities to provide the most likely experience for kids.
The list of Indoor Co-curricular activities is as follows:
Music
Dance
Drama
Drawing and painting
Abacus
Mental Mathematics or Vedic Mathematics
Cooking
Weaving
Clay modeling
Debating
Mathematics Club
Story Telling
Tailoring
Rangoli
Cardboard work
Youth Parliament
Mathematics Exhibition
Model United Nation
Student self-government
Art and craft
The list of Outdoor Co-curricular activities is as follows:
Horse Riding
Yoga
Athletics
Martial Arts or Self defense
Bicycling
Gardening
Cricket
Tennis
Mass parade
Mass drill
Swimming
Football
Basketball
Volleyball
Educational Excursion
Community Lunch
Morning assembly
Excursions
Community service or volunteering activities
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INSTITUTIONAL PLANNING
Meaning and Definition of Institutional Planning:
Institutional planning is the lowest level of national planning. The term implies that this type of planning is related to educational institution. This plan refers to the detailed programme
of action that is initiated, formulated and implemented by individual educational institution.Thus, the member of the institution gets the opportunity to take part in planning process.
In regard to the concept of institutional planning, M.B.Buch (1964) defines, “Institutional
planning is a programme of development and improvement prepared by an educational
institution on the basis of its felt needs and the resources available or likely to be available, with
a view to improving the school programme and school practices, constitutes a plan for an
institution. It is based on the principle of optimum utilisation of the resources available in the
school and the community.”
The above definition signifies that (i) Institutional planning is a programme prepared for development and improvement of school programme and school practices of the educational institution. Here, school programme means the curriculum and the syllabus used in teaching-
learning process. (i) School practice means the entire teaching-learning process of the institution i.e.
teaching method, strategy, skill, model, lesson plan. (ii) Institutional planning is prepared by the
educational institution itself (iii) this planning is prepared keeping view on the needs felt by the
institution (iv) It is a plan for an institution (v) This plan gives importance to utilise available
resources at best possible in the school and the community.
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Characteristics of Institutional Planning:
After going thoroughly the concept and definition of institutional planning, the following main characteristics of the planning are determined.
a) Institutional planning is the basic unit of educational planning. It begins from grass root level.
b) Institutional planning is goal-oriented. It aims to improve the quality of educational institution. It is prepared on the basis of its own development and improvement.
c) It is task oriented. Because, it needs co-operative working culture in the institution.
d) The teaching and non-teaching staff, parents, students, supervisor officers and other educationists in the locality takes part in institutional planning. Local community is also part of this planning.
e) Institutional planning is prepared to achieve within a fixed period of time. It may be short-term or long-term duration.
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Need of Institutional Planning:
The necessities of institutional planning are as follows:
1) Improvement of Educational Institution: The significance of institutional planning is
to develop and improve the programme of school or college. Institutional planning is
systematic, adequate and clear. This planning is systematic because it leads to achieve at the objectives following organized steps. It is also sufficient and satisfactory for the
institution. It plans the daily class routine, academic calendar; maintain record books and examination system etc. This planning is repeated in the same school from term to term
and from session to session.
2) Proper Direction to Educational Planning: Institutional planning gives the right direction to the educational planning in the country. Because, the general educational planning is based on institutional planning. The administrators, teachers, parents, students, educationists and social reformers are involved in decision making and formulation of Institutional planning. Hence, it can be expected to attain at effective
educational planning.
3) Maximum Utilization of Resources: Institutional planning ensures use of local resources and other resources available in the institution. Local resource means locally available physical and human resources found nearby the school or college. This planning emphasize on involvement of local people situated nearby the institution. So, it leads to use the available resources at optimum level so that the scarcity of resources can be avoided.
4) Contribution to National Development: Institutional planning has a unique role to build the Nation. We have known that educational planning is the ingredient of the
overall national planning and institutional planning is the grass root level of educational planning. So, it can be elicited that the plan and programme of institutional planning is important and vital for development of the country.
5) Encouragement to Individual Teacher: Individual teacher of the institution are benefitted from institutional planning. They get the opportunity for creative thinking and
motivated towards work. Thus, the work of the institution may be effective.
6) Democratization of Planning: Democracy provides all people equal opportunity to take part in decision making and administration of the institution. Institutional planning is a
decentralized process. The students, the teachers, the parents and the head of the institution take part in this planning process. So, it democratizes the process of planning.
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Purpose of Institutional Planning:
The purposes of educational planning are stated below. Let us study it.
(i) Autonomy: The main purpose of institutional planning is to give autonomy to the institution to take decision regarding aims and objectives of the school or college, to fulfill the needs for improvement of the institution, to determine some successful attempt to achieve at
realistic and practicable goals and to plan its overall development.
(ii) Stability: Another purpose of institutional planning is to give stability to the institution. Stability means steadiness and permanence of the institution. Stable situation help to done each work of the institution smoothly, continuously and in a planned and systematic
manner. Thus, the policies, programmes and procedures of the institution can be improved.
(iii) Solution to Problems: The functions of educational institution can be made easy and smooth by creating a healthy cooperative working environment and mutual understanding among staffs. The teaching and non-teaching staff of the institution cooperatively works for
making solution to the problem of the institution. Elite group of teaching staff and merit students influence the administration of educational institution.
(iv) Educational Improvement: Institutional planning improves objectives of the institution, working condition, teaching learning process, curricular and co-curricular
programmes, evaluation etc. Thus, the capacity and efficiency of staff and students are improved.
(v) Progress: Institutional planning helps the administrator to take independent decision regarding development of entire educational system and future progress of the
institution. Thus, an institution is able to plan both long term and short term institutional planning. It ensures good foresight and vision for the school or college. Institutional planning
assured discrete identity of the institution in the society.
(vi) Utilization of Resources: Resource is the essential part of educational institution. There are three types of resources in an educational institution: physical, human and finance. Institutional planning ensures utilization of these resources properly.
(vii) Beneficial to the Local Community: An educational institution has close relation with the community. Institutional planning helps to take steps for improvement of local community. The institution helps to become aware of problems arises in society.
(viii) Contribution to General Planning: Institutional planning is the part of general educational planning. It is the lowest level of planning. It contributes to develop educational
process at local, district, state or even the national plans.
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Scope of Institutional Planning:
The scope of institutional planning included all aspects of the educational institution.
Curriculum– Curriculum is the sum total of experiences that influence the learning behavior of students within the campus of educational institution. It helps student to acquire
knowledge and to inculcate social values. Institutional planning includes within its scope the organization of the curriculum prescribed in the institution. The authority of the institution also
organize the remedial teaching for slow-learners and organize of seminars, conference etc. in the
institution for knowledge upgradation of both teachers and students. It also implements the syllabus prescribed by government or higher educational authority.
Teaching Materials – The planning involves within its scope development and utilization of instructional materials and audio-visual aids according to demand of subjects and
classes. It also includes the purchase and distribution of library books, magazines, journals, question papers of previous years etc. in the library.
Building- An educational institution has different types of rooms for different purposes. It plans to construct the classrooms, library, laboratory rooms, auditorium, teacher’s room, common room for students, and separate toilet for boys and girls. It also plans to spend money
on construction, maintenance and repair of school building from time to time, whenever needed.
Drinking water facility, sanitary facilities, mid-day-meals, medical facilities etc. are other functions to be implemented by perspective planning.
Evaluation: Institutional planning covers within its scope the evaluation system of the institution. It prepares routine for internal examination including class test, unit test, half yearly examination and annual examination. The school or college also arranges two important
functions for students regarding external examination as the registration of students to higher
educational body and form fill up of students for external examination. Do you understand the term ‘external examination’? It refers to examination system controlled by examination body outside of the institution i.e. the question papers are set by external examination controlled body and answer scripts are also checked by teachers from outside of the institution.
Co-curricular Activities– You have known that modern education is child centered education and one of the primary function of education is harmonious development of the
students. So, it is the responsibility of the institution to make an atmosphere within the institution so that students obtain the chance to develop their physical, mental, intellectual, social and aesthetic aspect of personality. Institutional planning gives importance on building of attitude,
moral behavior. The institution should organize physical, literary and social service activities.
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Procedure of Institutional Planning:
The steps of institutional planning are as follows:
1. Analysis of Present Position: The first step of institutional planning is to survey the need and demands of the institution. The planners should verify the quality of available
physical resources as well as human resources and the teaching learning programme. So, the plan is prepared depending upon the needs of community, availability of resources
and utilization of manpower. Institutional planning should be based on the national policy, educational aims and objectives and the latest educational theory.
2. Survey of Resources: A survey is made to collect the accurate data about the resource of the institution. Besides the physical resource of the institution, government assisted funds
and social resources also strengthen the resource of the institution. Therefore, priority should be given to resources.
3. Preparation of Plan: A comprehensive plan is prepared to solve the problem of the
institution. At first, the plan is printed and time is estimated. A budget for proper cost is also prepared and the eligible person for the plan is selected. The major plan of the institution includes the following aspects:
Construction of Building, painting, maintenance, electricity facilities, teaching aids,
teaching procedures, instructional material, academic calendar, student welfare, school campus, library, laboratory, hostel, play ground, examination system etc.
4. Implementation of Plan: The fourth step of institutional planning is to implement the plan in right direction at right time. Head teacher, teachers, non-teaching staff, parents,
public, educationists and students implemented the plan in the areas of the institution. Works are specialized among people for smooth functioning of the plan.
5. Evaluation of Plan: During implementation of the institutional planning, the strength and weakness of the plan is evaluated periodically by teachers. The periodic evaluation is beneficial for planners to judge the quality of implemented functions and accomplished objectives; to correct the errors of the actions and to provide remedial measures whenever
needed.
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School records and registers
Records and registers
1. Admission Register:
It is a record of all the pupils who arc admitted to a school. According to departmental rules, the admission register is to be preserved permanently in the school. Therefore, it is essential that it should be got specially bound and kept in safe custody. It is to be free from mistakes because this register is at times required by superior authorities in a court of law as an evidence for the date of birth of the pupils. The admission register should contain the following items.
(i) The serial number and name of the pupil.
(ii) His father’s name, caste, occupation and address.
(iii) His date of birth.
(iv) Date of admission to the school,
(v) The class to which he is admitted.
(vi) Dale of withdrawal or migration from the school.
2. Pupil’s Attendance Register:
This is another important register which is maintained in each class and section, showing the names of the pupils on the roll of the class or section, during a month. The attendance is marked in the beginning of (he school hour. Entries should be made in ink. Blanks should not be left. Students who remain absent from the school without leave for fifteen consecutive attendance is struck off from the rolls. Holidays are marked in red ink. Monthly fees and fines are collected from the pupils in this register.
3. School Calendar
The school calendar is a mirror where the probable dates of various events and activities to be done during the coming session are reflected. It is usually prepared at the beginning of each academic session. It should contain the following Stems of information.
(i) Information about the general, local and gazette holidays.
(ii) Dates for the submission of monthly, quarterly, holidays and annual reports and returns.
(iii) Dates of monthly, quarterly and annual examinations.
(iv) Dates of the meetings of the school and faculty committees, Teachers’ Associations, different societies, school excursions and educational tours, school tournaments etc.
(v) Dates of important school functions like the annual prize day, the parents day, (he U.N.O. day, Independence Day, Republic Day, Birthday of eminent persons etc.
4. Cash Book:
Cash Book is a record of all money transactions occurring from day-to-day in the school. Money received by the school from different sources like fees, fines, donations, stipends, scholarships, grant-in-aid are entered on the credit side. On the debit side the payments like the salaries of the teachers, stipends, scholarships, contingent expenditure incurred, deposits made in the Treasury, bank and post office are shown. Balance is shown in red ink. It should be regularly written and the day’s business should be closed with the signature of -the headmaster. It should be an up-to-date record.
5. Stock Register
This register keeps information of all the movable property of the school. While purchasing equipment or furniture, it must be duly entered in this property register. The head of the institution should check this register physically at least once in a year. Verification report should be recorded in the stock register. It can show which articles are missing and which need immediate repairs. The register should contain the following information :
(i) Name of the article.
(ii) Quantity of the articles.
(iii)Date of purchase.
(iv) Name of the firm which supplied the articles.
(v) The authority ordering purchase, (vi) Signature of the authority.
How to keep records and register
1. Stock list for register
2. Particulars on outer cover of each record.
3. Number the page currectly- red ink or number machine.
4. Alternations and overwriting should not be permitted.
5. First page should certified by the Head.
6. Never open new volume of register every year if the previous volume contains blank pages.
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