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and students Local educationalists: SMC should have provisions to utilize expertise of local educationalists for effective functioning of school Students from the school: SMC should have proper representation of students 50% of the members shall be women As per the Act of Central Education Rights, School Management Committee should be formed and reorganized once in 2 years in all government schools except unaided institutions

 

Number of members in the Committee

(i) In a school with students below 750, total members can be 16 apart from the convener and joint convener.

(ii) In a school with more than 750 students, total members can be 20 apart from convener and joint convener.

(iii) 75% of the members in the committee should be the parents of the students or guardian in the absence of parents. Also it should include – members of Mother-Parent -Teacher Association, parents of selected students, parents or guardians of - students belonging to the weaker section of the society, students eligible for special consideration. Enough representation be given to the parents representing back ward sections and depressed category.

(iv) The rest of the 25% of the members should be from the sections given below.

(a) Ward or division member of local self govt from the location of the school

(b) A teacher selected from the school by them

(c) An educational expert from the place, selected by the parents

(d) School leader

(v) For the execution of administrative affairs, a chairman or vice chairman should be elected from the parent – representatives. Head Master or teacher in charge would be the ex-officio member convener of the committee. In schools with higher secondary section, Principal would be the ex-officio member convener and HM, the joint convener.

(vi) Convener has the right to invite three experts at a time for seeking expert opinion regarding protection of children, health, nutrition, psychology, and administrative activities being undertaken by the committee.

(vii) The committee should meet two months once at the least. The minutes of the meet be recorded properly and decisions be taken based on the opinion of the majority. Also it should be displayed on the school notice board in such a way that even the public can notice it.

(viii) Assistant Educational Officer should confirm the formation of the committee, trainings imparted to the members and evaluate the activities as well.

 

Duties of the Committee

 

(a) Monitor the activities of the institution

(b) Preparation of School Development Plan and recommend for its implementation

(c) Oversee the distribution of financial aid available from state government, local self-government departments, or other agencies.

(d) Apart from these, the duties given below have to be done by the committee

(i)Simple creative discussions on rights of children under Right to Education Act, duties of the state govt, local self govt departments, parents etc. should be conducted with the people in the area where school is situated.

(ii)The punctuality maintained by the teachers in being present in school, meetings between parents or guardians and teachers to make them aware of the attendance, curricular and co-curricular abilities of the students, improvement in studies and other such details of the students should be confirmed.

(iii)Also ensure teachers are not assigned other duties except – census, disaster relief activities, local self-government or state government or parliament election,

(iv)Teachers are not handling private tuition or educations activities- should be ensured

(v)Monitor whether the expected improvement in learning as said by the Centre for Academic Activities is achieved. The absence of teachers and students be noted. Action be taken to fill leave vacancies for a period of less than a year from the empaneled list of teachers prepared by local self-government departments on daily wage basis.

(vi)School admission and continuous attendance of the children of that area should be ensured to avoid the complete ‘drop-out’ of children. Students who is absent for 15 days continuously should be included in the drop out register and steps be taken to rectify the factors leading to the drop out of the child and bring him/her back to school.

(vii)Monitoring be done in the above said matters and laws and standard specified in Kerala Education Act and Rules for the conduct of activities in all sections of the school.

(viii)Any deviation in rights of children especially mental or physical harassment, denying admission, any aids available free of cost being not given on time etc. be taken to the notice of the Local Self Government Departments.

(ix)Need based Action Plan be prepared

(x)Arrange additional coaching classes for children who need special care, and compensatory classes for children who gets late admission or who lag behind in studies. Also make it sure whether class PTA and Mother PTA etc. are conducted.

(xi)Physically disabled children’s admission, the facilities needed for them, their role in primary education and whether they complete their course of study – should be supervised.

(xii)Monitor the noon – meal programme

(xiii)Coordinate the particulars and the cooperation from the authorized centres, the public, and other agencies for the best means and resources to be provided to enable the curricular and co-curricular activities.

(xiv)Prepare an annual account statement of income and expenditure of the fund of the committee for school.

(xv)To execute the duties assigned as per this Act, any amount received by the committee should be with the joint account of the committee chairman and convener and it should be audited every year by a chartered accountant fixed by the committee. In the annual meet, the audit report along with the account should be produced. It should be counter signed by the committee chairman or the head chairman and the convener to be produced before the Assistant Educational officer within a month.

(xvi)Within two months after meeting such expenses or in two months in the financial year- which comes first, Utilization certificate of funds received by the School Management Committee must be submitted to the allotted centre of fund authority.

Preparation of School Development Plan

 

(1) In 2 months after the formation of School Management Committee, a School Development Plan should be prepared,

(2) It should be a 3-year plan comprising 3 separate annual sub plans.

(3) It should have the details given below – 

(a) Estimate of class wise admission for each year.

(b) Basic amenities including building, laboratory, library, toilets, drinking water,wooden furniture, instruments, playground etc.

(c) The preparation of master plan should include the future needs of the school, student friendly, eco-friendly construction –concepts etc. An expert’s opinion or service can be availed of.

(d) As per the guidelines referred above in this list &the Kerala Education Act rules more physical needs of the basic resources and instruments, mainly laboratory, information and communication technology, library, sports and games be prepared.

(e) Expenses for special coaching facilities for the late admission students, separate evaluation of needs of each section on age basis, free text books, uniform, travel concessions, free accommodation etc. and any more needs to be satisfied under this Act including above said part (d) related financial needs.

f) As per the calculations done according to the law stated in this list, total number of teachers needed for classes 1-5 and 6-8, each subject teachers, part time teachers, head master etc.

School Development Plan should be counter signed by the School Management Committee chair person or vice chairperson and convener. Within one month after the approval of the committee, it should be submitted to the Assistant Educational Officer and Centre for Local Authorities.

 

Challenges of SMC

Quality of education and overall development of schools is one of the main challenges

before the School Management committees.

Capacity building of the SMC members is also one of the main challenges. Non-participation of SMC members in making School development plan and execution

thereof is not as expected in the RTE Act, 2009.

Functional linkages of committees with Local bodies are very weak. Improvement of teaching learning processes in the schools on the part of the SMCs is alsoweak. Legal provisioning for community participation is weak. Enrolment trend in Government upper primary schools shows continuous drop which is

one of the major challenge before the SMCs.

Suggestion for further improvement/strengthening of SMCs

Enable the schoolsystem to encourage the participation level of SMC members in their functioning and alsostrengthening the participation of community members in the smooth functioning of the schools. The duration of the SMC is short and in this short duration of time, no system can aware any SMC member completely aware about theirroles and responsibilities as an effective executive member of the school managementcommittee. Although there is a process of election for framing or constituting the SMCs but in someschools this process does not happen in case of members for the executive committee.Here the election is only held for the office of president only. So election process shouldbe adopted for electing every member. Roles and responsibilities should be made clear to all the SMC members. Some incentives should be given to the committee members for encouraging theireffective participation, first in the trainings of SMC and then in the management ofelementary education. There should be effective convergence and collaboration with other SMCs at block anddistrict level. There should be visits for the SMCs to other schools where the SMCs are doingexceptionally good so that they can learn from their experiences. Management of the Mid-day Meal (MDM) scheme should be given completely to theschool management committees so that this scheme may be effectively implemented byreducing the burden of the teachers. The construction work of school buildings, toilets, boundary walls and playgrounds etc.should also be given the SMCs in order to spare the teachers completely for the teachingand learning activities. More grants and funds should be sanctioned as there are various activities at the schoollevel. For more involvement of the community in general and School Management Committeein particular frequent supervision and inspection of schools should be done. Teachers should be given training in order to encourage the community participation inthe school affairs. More people should be involved in proper functioning of the school through mediacampaigns, poster campaigns and discussions through electronic and print media. School management committees should focus on tracking every child’s progress andcontinuously monitor the school development. SMC members should drive a wedge between attending meetings and the quality ofoutcomes in the school. Attentionshould be given to both infrastructural facilities as well as towards the staff availability. The SMC members should be provided some financial incentives or rewards. These rewards and incentives can be helpful in providing positive motivation to SMC membersand can boost the morale of these members and develop a feeling of belongingnessamong them. The headmaster of the school who is also member secretary of the SMC is alreadyoverburdened with the curricular and co-curricular activities of the school. Since as per guidelines periodic trainings are an important component of capacitybuilding of SMC members hence such trainings are very important for increasing theawareness of the members on procedures followed for formations, nominations andfunctions of SMCs Chapter: 15 SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT PLAN

SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT PLAN

School Development Planning … is an ongoing process that helps schools as complex communities to meet the dual challenge of enhancing quality and managing change. The School Plan … is the product of that process. It serves as a reference document that guides the activities of the school and facilitates monitoring and self-evaluation. The Desired Outcome … of process and product is the provision of an enhanced education service, relevant to pupils’ needs, through the promotion of high quality teaching and learning, the professional empowerment of teachers, and the effective management of innovation and change.

The School Development Plan (SDP) is a strategic plan for improvement. It should bring together, in a clear and simple way, the school priorities, the main measures it will take to raise standards,