STRATEGINIS VEIKLOS PLANAVIMAS MOKYKLOJE: REALIOS SITUACIJOS VERTINIMAS
STRATEGIC PLANNING IN A MODERN SCHOOL: EVALUATION ASPECT OF A REAL SITUATION

Summary/Abstract: Modern schools work in the context of rapid change, increasing dependence on the external environment and rising requirements to educational organisations. Significance of strategic school planning is first of all associated with the self-evaluation of a real situ¬ation, as this process determines reliability of the strategic plan in connection with the influence of political, economic, cultural, technical/technologi¬cal and competitive factors on school and its internal potential. Content analysis of the strategic plans of general education schools allowed us to identify substantial peculiarities of the situation in schools. The research shows that today’s schools function in the conditions of intensifying influence of the external environment. Nowadays the most significant impact on schools is made by social and economic factors. Schools give more negative than positive opinion about the influ¬ence of the aforementioned factors and especially their subsequence on different fields of school ac¬tivities. Not sufficient financial education support is considered as a main threat to schools and the sub¬sequence of this process is seen as main weaknesses of the organisations. More than two thirds of schools with a stable situation analysis emphasize unfriendly social environment. All schools indicate unsatisfac¬tory demographic situation leading to the decrease in the number of students and growing competition among schools as a main threat. School management, student support and hu¬man resources are the main strengths of schools al¬lowing them to seek for the ways to connect them with external and internal influence groups and look for opportunities to develop them in other fields of school activities. Smaller amount of the statements reflecting schools opportunities in comparison with the external threats has been identified. This fact al¬lows us to presume that today’s schools function in the excess conditions of external threats and nega¬tive influences, not always make adequate and com¬plex evaluation of their potential opportunities in the external environment and link it with the systemic development of the organisation. Teachers’ qualifica¬tion and its improvement system, project work, use of the active teaching methods, school work evalua¬tion system and students achievements are the main fields where schools see the most considerable po¬tential opportunities. Key words: school environment, situation eval¬uation, strategy, strategic planning

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