Özet:

Educational planning might be defined as a mechanism, which arranges the objectives, based on priorities of certain choices and distributes the relevant sources to the primary objectives. A good planning is needed for education to achieve the target. Prospective planning is related to the success of its practicability. Putting forward highly practical plans requires determining the state of the current situation and knowing quite well where and how to act. Considering the importance of planning for education, setting a course for correct/effective planning is also very important. At this point, the need and importance of strategic planning for education stand out. Defining the goals, the routes to be followed to achieve those goals must be known through correct strategies. Strategic planning will be a route map to show where we are and what to do. Strategic planning includes all general research finding s and objectives concerning relevant planning. The importance of strategic planning comes to surface when education services are considered. The study focuses on the importance of strategic planning in education. With this aim, the universe of the research includes the primary schools in Elazığ and in the districts of Elazığ. Data collection tools have been handed out to 3323 teachers and 354 administrators who were selected randomly among 850 teachers and 104 administrators. 535 teachers and 102 administrators’ scales being handed in were evaluated. For analyzing; frequency, percentage, average, standard deviation, Pearson Correlation coefficient were calculated, Mann Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis tests were used. According to the results of the search, the teachers’ views of the process of preparing strategic planning are increasing as their educational level gets high. The views of the teachers, who got education about strategic planning, are higher on the gaining of strategic planning to the school when compared with the others. 70% of the administrators did not get an education about strategic planning. Of 105 performance indicators and activities of 2011 monitoring reports of strategic planning 55 (53%) were completed. Besides this, the 2011 monitoring reports of strategic planning of 11 Primary schools belonging to the same sample have been analyzed and the results are presented in tables

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