1. Education Quality A Framework for Understanding, monitoring & Improving Dr D. Sarangi Directorate of Teacher Education & SCERT, Odisha. Bhubaneswar Presentation made in training of BEOs Dt 03 July 2013 Madhusudan Institution of Financial Management, Bhubaneswar

2. What is Quality Education? What do you look for when you think about education quality ?

3. Dimensions of Quality in Education Quality Learner Context Environ ment ContentProcess Outcome

4. Quality in a Context Block Equity: Access Opportunity Achievement Interschool Collaboratio n School Institutional Leadership Child Accommodation plan Classroom Engagement Task relevance & support Teacher’s knowledge of children & Improvement plan

5. Limits of Quality What is the satisfactory level of Quality ? Quality of education is dynamic- a continuous process of improvement Same quality of education every whwre? Why? How can you rate schools education ?

6. What makes quality initiatives low yielding? Our Common Perception: Issues with learners & resources Most High Quality Institutions view it as issues of quality management

7. Quality improvement Where to focus? Begin with School Leadership Create a shared vision & planned targets Gradual Improvement in Teacher Capability & Performance Standard based Monitoring & Mentoring Scope for collaborative learning & growth Performance based incentive Sharing good practices

8. Monitoring Approaches to Quality Initiatives School Based Internal Monitoring on negotiated criteria External Monitoring Visits

9. Mixed Model of Monitoring Within School monitoring Within Cluster monitoring Within Block monitoring Within District monitoring Context Specific negotiated Targets at each level

10. Your role as a System Leader in Quality Assurance How do you view you’re your role? - Education Administrator? Education Manager? System Leader? Need a change in role perception?

11. POINTS TO REMBER Improvement needs collaborative efforts Quality Improvement process can begin from any condition Begin with small targets. Small steps covers long distance Take into account both explicit and implicit gains

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