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Practicum Project Analysis

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Description of Proposed Project (at least 200 words) My practicum project is to develop a strategic plan for the four-year program that began in April 2016 at my practicum site. The organizations can have a chance to recognize themselves through strategic planning because it would show the goals, missions, interests, strengths, and limitations of the organizations. I will collect the information about the kindergarten I’m working for such as the history, cost, and problem as well as the four-year program such as their curriculum so that I can use the information to analyze. Understanding the current situation is the first step of the strategic planning. Therefore, I will monitor the progress of the program through the semester. If the kindergarten …show more content…

From April 2016, the kindergarten has offered five days class as a regular class. However, there are some differences between four-years program and other programs. The class teachers need to need to make daily activities plan based on children’s development through trial and error. When the kindergarten began a new program, they had their plan with a mission. However, the kindergarten did not do any “strategic planning” like the way I learned in the class. Thus, the kindergarten does not have the mission statement, written goals and visions. Since I have never worked for organizations or companies except for private kindergarten, I have no idea if strategic planning is common or not in Japan. At least, I do not know any kindergartens that do “strategic planning.” I will identify any critical issues that the four-year program has, therefore strategic plan may help the kindergarten and the teachers to clearly recognize the current situation. Moreover, the strategic plan could be useful as a blueprint for the kindergarten when they would like to provide a new program, although I’m going to focus on the four-year …show more content…

Therefore, I will state the plan that can be used in the future. I can not take survey or interview with children in the program because the kindergarten does not allow me to do it due to limited time and children’s age. Thus, all participates of the evaluation would be teachers in the kindergarten who are experts in child development and administration of the kindergarten. As an evaluation, I will ask teachers who are in the four-year program as well as who are in regular class some questions through survey or interviews as qualitative data. The strategic plan will show the weak points or problem of the program. Therefore, the questions to evaluate will include: what change would improve the program, how do you think about the impact that children in the program may have and so on. I will also add other questions to review the procedure of the project through consulting with my supervisor and other teachers. The main focus of the evaluation would be a professional evaluation by experienced teachers and comparative analysis of our program and a similar program in another kindergarten if it is possible. The observation could be other data to evaluate the program. When I complete evaluation, it is important to share the result of the evaluation with written report with all teachers in the

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