What Your Education Plan Lacks is Strategic Approach, And How to Fix This

About strategic planning

First, let’s go in short about what is strategic vision and strategic timeline, and why both teachers and students definitely need them in education.

Strategic vision is your long-term plan, it’s the overarching goal that all your efforts should be designed around. It is an ultimate tool to ensure that you know where you’re heading. Individuals, universities, companies – anybody trying to act without a plan at hand is doomed to fail. A proper strategy should also answer the “how?” – that’s where the strategic timeline comes into play.

Strategic timeline is a tool that will keep you on track during your journey towards the goal. Without a timeline, you will have no way to see the road ahead and the path that you’ve already covered. It’s like wandering around in a dark room only lit with light from the “Exit” sign. You might know where you want to get, but you will have no idea of what obstacles you might stumble upon.

Tools of trade for students and teachers

Now that you understand the importance of a thorough strategic planning, let’s discuss a neat app called KeepSolid Goals. It is dedicated to making the planning process as transparent, smooth, and clear as possible. Within this app, you can craft timelines of various scopes and levels of detail. The main benefits of KeepSolid Goals are its intuitive design, Objective mind maps, and versatility for planning different aspects of life.

So how exactly does education planning benefit from using this service? Glad you asked! Let us answer this question starting with the tool’s application for school leadership and then moving to teachers and students.

The ways how educational leaders can benefit from a strategy are arguably the most self-explanatory. They occasionally have to draw long-term action plans for various projects, consider numerous interrelations between subjects, interact with other schools, etc. This is the kind of strategic planning that is common for any administrative institutions. Gantt style charts, timeline visualization, multi-project planning – everything an educational leader might need, we have it!

Teachers planning an education strategy can face certain challenges that KeepSolid Goals excels at solving.

1. Challenge: Designing a lesson course. On one hand, it must include everything that an education program demands. On the other hand, there is no way to predict which parts will your students get through quickly and which will prove complex for them and will require additional explanation. Thus, your plan must be both all-inclusive and flexible enough at the same time.
   
   Solution: You can build a timeline of any scope and precision and easily edit any parts of it afterwards. If one of the lessons happens to take more time than expected, you can easily see how it will influence your schedule and how to make up for it. 
    
2. Challenge: Planning theoretical and practical studies. One should flow from the other and sometimes you have more lessons of one type than those of the other. In this situation, understanding which parts of information should go to which parts of the schedule can become a mess.
   
   Solution: Divide your schedule within the Goals app into two projects: Theory and Practice. Include the topics or themes, add sub-topics, set due dates such as certain educational events, etc. Now it will be super-easy to see the big picture, your end-goals, and your overall progress. This way you’ll never lose track of tasks or forget to cover an important topic. Besides, you will have a comprehensive visual presentation of your plan in case you need to showcase it to stakeholders.

Students will benefit from the app in question as well. However, their planning challenges are not as… regulated, if you will. They mostly arise from two needs:

• planning out a lot of different coextensive and somewhat related subjects
• having a single tool capable of on-the-go planning

The Goals app appeals to them due to its ability to represent any amount of projects simultaneously within one page. A single glance at the screen is enough to have a helicopter view over all your studies and subjects. 

To conclude

We hope that you now have a better understanding of the strategy planning process and its applications in education. It is a way to drastically boost your effectiveness, making it so much easier when you have a clear understanding of what’s to come. Doesn’t matter if you are a private teacher, a college dean, or a university student, building a strategy is a first sure step to your success.