Educational planning allows defining the goals and objectives of education.
Educational planning is responsible for specifying the purposes, objectives and goals of education . Thanks to this type of planning , it is possible to define what to do and with what resources and strategies.
Educational planning involves the interaction of various dimensions. For example, from the social aspect, it must be taken into account that the school is part of a society and, as such, the changes it experiences will transcend it.
According to the technical dimension, educational planning must consider the use of technology in pedagogy , while in terms of its political dimension, it must address existing regulatory frameworks.
Stages of educational planning
On the other hand, educational planning is developed in a series of steps. The first stage is the diagnosis , where educational needs, learning conditions and external factors that affect the educational process are linked.
The next step is the analysis of the nature of the problem, which involves a comprehensive understanding of the complexity of educational reality.
Planning continues with the design and evaluation of action options. What planning does is try to anticipate the result of the possibilities considered, in order to select the most appropriate one for meeting the objectives.
Once the action or actions to follow have been chosen, the moment of implementation arrives, which is the implementation of educational planning. Finally, it is the turn of the evaluation , where balances are established to analyze the success of the process and its results.
It is important that educational planning considers social, economic, cultural and technical issues.
The importance of planning when teaching
It is important to note that planning is one of the fundamental tools in the organization of teaching work, as it allows establishing the objectives that one wants to achieve when applying the activities that have been designed for the student(s). The result of good educational planning is comprehensive development and effective dissemination of functional learning so that each child can face their future life.
To carry out a correct organization of work, it is necessary to previously dedicate time to understanding the students , what their qualities are, how they approach education, what activities could favor effective learning performance, etc.
Some teachers, for fear of being unspontaneous or uninteresting when it comes to imparting their knowledge, tend to string together their speeches in real time, without paying attention to the program and forgetting to consider the objectives of each class ; In this way they end up offering a disorganized and deficient education that only leads to students becoming confused and failing to understand the essentials of the subject they are learning.
Educational planning to achieve pedagogical objectives
If we take into account that the objective of planning is to be able to decide in advance the future that we want to achieve , to implement balanced and organized teaching, we can say that a teacher who is not organized based on planning will offer a extremely ineffective education, which will sow more doubts than answers in the students.
To be put into practice, educational planning is helped by didactics ; that is, the set of techniques used in teaching (based on a series of principles and procedures applicable in any discipline). This branch of pedagogy is not only concerned with analyzing what is going to be taught but, and more carefully, with how it is going to be taught.
The presence of didactics in educational planning is essential because it helps to understand that the content that will be offered is as important as the medium in which it will be taught ; The students and the environment in which their lives develop are analyzed, both physically and emotionally, culturally and socially. Thanks to didactics, the teacher can do his or her job properly, making learning efficient .