Saturday, November 8, 2014


INTRODUCTION

Through the present webquest we, as students, will be able to take a critical point of view concerning the implications of educational management in real situations in a university, taking part as leaders in the planning and organization of strategic development in educational contexts by implementing innovative intervention.

Tactics and strategy of educational quality that need to be considered:

Ensure that students achieve better academic results in pruebas SABER 11, in order to settle a prominent institutional level must be one of the objectives of management education, the institution should put up a cycle that seeks to promote and sustain educational quality in: PROFICIENCY STANDARDS, ASSESSMENTS AND IMPROVEMENT PLANS.

THE STANDARDS are benchmarks that indicate a path on what a child needs to know in each grade and basic area of knowledge. 

TASKS

The situation chosen for the analysis is the low score of the students in an educational institution in the results of the tests SABER 11 in the area of ​​English.
External evaluations, i.e. Tests Saber 11 and Examinations of State are those that allow the institution to look at the learning outcomes of their students and to get a better education to determine what problems or difficulties you are having.

 IMPROVEMENT PLANS to enhance those opportunities through the setting of goals and concrete actions that assemble all aspects of school management towards achieving the expected results.
Plotting and tour route improvement requires an orderly and systematic process that allows the team and the educational community to know what the institution is like in academics, school environment and managerial terms, know where you want to go, set the path to do it and share the adventures.

WHY A SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLAN?

At school, planning is a method that allows direct teaching and administration towards achieving best processes. Improvement means moving from one state to another more satisfactory; recognizing an unsatisfactory situation and overcoming it.

Revolutionize the education system in terms of improving quality is the aim of the series of standards, assessments and improvement plans, which allows each school community, fully organize their teaching and managerial processes.

Improving the quality of education is a pedagogical activity inside and outside the classroom, which gathers and mobilizes institutions to fulfill the vision and mission of the Institutional Educational Project PEI. By analyzing the test results against national standards of competence and in light of pedagogical, administrative and community strategies, learning communities project the actions that will achieve better performance of their students.

Thus, the results of Saber 11, applied on previous years in the institution, indicated the need for a process of continuous, systematic and comprehensive improvement in the institution.







PROCESS

WHAT IS A PLAN FOR IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATIONAL QUALITY?
An improvement plan is a pedagogical tool that allows educational institutions to carry out the procedures, actions, settings, and goals that guide the achievement of their common goals, according to the components of the policy, academic, administrative, financial and community: school management in a comprehensive and detailed manner.  
Defining objectives:
·        Find the reasons for the poor results in student scores on tests SABER 11.
·        Implement an improvement plan in order to help students improve their grades in the internal and external test.
Determining the current status with respect to the objectives
  • Improvement of library equipment and facilities in the institution
  • Optimum utilization of existing resources.
  • Providing an opportunity to the school staff and students to join hands and improve the institution.
Determining planning premises
·         Analyze the results of evaluations of the institution, especially the test SABER 11
·         Establish a common view of the situation in which the learning of children in relation to core competencies are.
·         Analyze the results of state exams and if possible compare with results from previous years. Is there progress? Taking the results of institutional assessment on the development of the PEI and the results of performance evaluation of teachers and school administrators. The education of children and youth is a cumulative process, so the results of the evaluations should include teachers in each of the cycles.
·         Discuss the possible causes that generate the results obtained in the tests and other assessment instruments. Questionnaires can be developed to complete the diagnostic assessment or institutional characterization, include different aspects of the institution and based on a score, suggesting a valuation percentages.
Identifying alternative
The institution should start doing a process of internalization, a campaign for the recognition of English from primary school, training at the same English teacher in the process of learning the language. They see English as an investment in human capital. On the other hand, create the necessary spaces, taking into account the realities and needs of the students, the teacher, then, must allow the student brings to school which is staffed interest in English and incorporate it into the classroom and in the process of language teaching.
English teachers should promote contextualized learning experiences that meet the interests and needs of their students, thus modeling a pedagogical practice consistent with the current trend of language teaching and learning theories.
Choosing an alternative
Motivate and train teachers of the institution in the optimization and updating of strategies and resources in the process of learning the English language, based on the needs of students.
Identify needs, concerns or potential problems that teachers and students have about the process of learning English.
Propose strategies to teachers who serve as useful tools in planning lessons.
Motivate teachers in the selection of new strategies and resources for teaching English.
Formulating support plans
The institution must purchase support materials for teaching English as computers with internet access, laboratories, audiovisual material, etc.
Surveys should be carried out among students, teachers and parents to find out what factors are causing poor performance on tests SABER 11.
The parties involved in the institution should improve the school environment of the classroom.
Students should be aware of the importance of test scores to SABER 11.
Diagnostic tests should be made to the tests focused SABER 11 before the presentation of the same by students.
It should assess whether the time spent in learning the English area is adequate.
The institution can create a web page where the students and teachers can be connected and to practice outside the classroom.
The institution can create a club for students interested in improve its knowledge of English where they can to practice their skills of speaking, listening, writing and reading.

EVALUATION

Everyone in the institution, but the Directive Board decides to improve an unsatisfactory educational situation, with the support of the educational community and the continued support of the Quality Committee of the institution. The achievements of the Plan are determined to a greater extent by the actions in the institution, headed by the headmaster and the direct action of coordinators, teachers and students.

A team comprised of individuals with significant leadership within the school system, and selected by the Directive Board leads changes in technical aspects, in knowledge, experience, commitment and availability of learning, and is critical to success in planning, implementation and monitoring. The team must have a capable leader in management and persuasion, so that he can keep the group active and committed for a period of more than a year.

The plan seeks to benefit and contribute to the process. It includes different teachers, administrative staff, students, alumni, school committees, school governance, Academic Council, parents, foundations, universities linked by regional or professional interests, and officers of the respective Ministry of Education responsible for the quality of education and other educational institutions with good performances or previous experience.

WHAT ARE THE ROLES OF THOSE INVOLVED?
To guide, coordinate, promote and project guidelines for the institution, in accordance with the PEI, and give coherence to the steps and actions for improvement. The vision and mission of the school are the functions of the headmaster. It is he who leads the team and ensures that all members share the assumptions and are consistent with their responsibilities. 


CONCLUSIONS


 
Improvement Plans are concrete and real actions which demand us to get education quality required by Colombian students.
They, with their best learning and competence shall be, together with the country, the first beneficiaries. Improvement plans in schools with the entire teaching staff, benefits the institutional sustainability.
Improvement requires the conviction and the decision that it is always possible, whatever the nature of the institution, large or small, rural or urban, public or private.