ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT OF ECCD PROGRAMMES

Lesson 05: Management of ECCE Programmes

Planning

Planning specifies what is to be accomplished. For example the center plans to add a classroom becomes a goal that must be measured during the process of controlling. Planning requires many steps and numerous pads of paper for drafts of various types of plans.

1. Importance

   Planning charts help in reaching the goals most effectively.
   Participation of staff members in planning helps to achieve better understanding clearly leading to success of an agreement.
   Everyone will be aware about their contribution towards the goals of the organization.

2. Types of planning

   Planning for the centers have several phases, as many rough drafts of plans are needed to be circulated among the staff for feedback before final budgeting and funding takes place.

1. Directional Planning: It is a characteristic of human service organization. Planning in a child development center may be considered directional planning i.e. giving the staff the broad directions in which they are expected to move.

2. Innovative planning may offer exciting possibilities for early childhood professionals and parents. Innovative planning is a technique for getting concerned people together for the purpose of brain storming possibilities for a new service or a new direction.
3. Unit planning is the regular planning specific to each unit’s operation. Unit planning goes on in the food service unit, the classrooms and the transportation unit and so on. Staffing patterns determine the authority in those units.
3. Steps in planning process

   Managers generally use a series of steps in planning.

   Steps in planning