Excellence in School Education through Quality Process Viability Assessment

Abstract

Today Indian schools encounter challenges that are global in nature, and with this the most threatening concern that comes along is - Are we ready as educational leaders and Managers to face the same? There is no scope of denial for the fact that our schools definitely need to nurture the skills, culture, and disposition that would help them not only to identify but also effectively assess the quality processes that contribute to the school's potential building through excellence. To meet the dynamic nature of excellence, a highly sensitive process of self-assessment is required. The ‘Quality Excellence Model for Schools’ is developed as a self-assessment tool that enables the schools to identify their hidden potential for excellent performance and meet the global challenges. It also gives the schools a new vision to see their efforts on the backdrop of process orientation. The structure of the model includes five categories; Leadership and School Governance, Infrastructure and Learning Resource Management, Student Focus Management, Human Resource Management, and Stakeholder, and Market Relation Management. These are divided into areas, which are further divided into indicators. The identified indicators are the quality processes, depicting the action-oriented cycle of learning that takes place via feedback between the process and the result, involving four clearly defined stages, Approach, Deployment, Improvement, and Excellence.