LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 15:9 September 2015
ISSN 1930-2940

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Managing Effective Monitoring System through Primary School Heads
Teachers Involvement in District Peshawar, Pakistan

Nasrullah Khan, Dr Zakia Ali, Dr Maher Bano and Kiramat Shah


Abstract

The study was descriptive in nature. The study was an attempt to find the role of existing monitoring system at primary level in district Peshawar Khyberphtunkhwa. The objectives of the study were: To define the term monitoring in education system. To analyze the involvement of Schools Heads in existing monitoring system. To give suggestions and recommendations for the improvement of the schools monitoring system. The key questions of the study were: What is the current status of monitoring in district Peshawar? What is the importance of monitoring in local as well as in global prospective? What recommendations the study made for effective monitoring system.

The study found out that there was dire need to introduce modern and effective monitoring system mechanism in the main stream of education at primary level in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Many gaps were found which included lack of proper monitoring system, need of professional support to the prospective teachers, poor performance of supervisors in the field and lack of opportunity to explore their career. There was no formal system of monitoring in vogue in primary education system at Government level. The studies recommended the following recommendations: 1.There should be the addition of modern technology like clip cards, close circuit cameras and interactive boards should be introduced and link with Auditor general’s and District Manager’s offices. 2. Community should be motivated, mobilized and encourage to participate in the process of monitoring.3.There must be a High level training should be arranged for monitoring staff for capacity building to make the process further good and effective.4.The numbers of the schools should be less than 40 under the jurisdiction of an Assistant Sub Divisional Education Officer.

Keywords: Primary Schools, Heads Teachers, Monitoring, Effectiveness.

Introduction

Education plays the role of leadership, guide and light in the societies. The functions of the educational institutions is to develop peoples physically, mentally, psychologically and socially as well as economical and morally. Monitoring is a periodical phenomenon of checking and assessing the programme during its execution or implementation stage on regular basis that will enable identification of problems and solutions during the implementation process. It also provides feedback to planners about the progress of the programme in the implementation stage and keeping them abreast with the progress of the project or scheme.

An efficient management system offers to the partners, facilities for combining information and a picture of performance body to governing body ultimately, thus facilitating the decision makers and partners, using systematic collection of data. It is continuous process highlighting to the stake holders and management, the input of funds and corresponding output through output through various indicators. Monitoring is a periodical phenomenon of checking and assessing the program during it execution stage on regular basis that will enable identification of problems and it solution during the implementation process. It provides feedback to the planners about the progress of the program in the implementation stage and keeping them abreast with the progress of the project. Carron (1998) describes that Methodical and continued monitoring is a useful organ of effective education system enabling the teachers to conceive the most clause-able strategies for teaching, reading, writing and understanding helping the teachers to take care of student’s learning problems before any impediment arises for the student’s achievements’.


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Nasrullah Khan
Lecturer Education Department
Abasyn University
Peshawar
Pakistan
nasir22_afd@hotmail.com

Dr Zakia Ali
Dean Education Department
Abasyn University
Peshawar
Pakistan

Dr Maher Bano
Professor
Education Department
Abasyn Universi
ty Peshawar
Pakistan

Kiramat Shah
M.Phil. Scholar


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