INNOVATION IN EDUCATIONAL

ADMINISTRATION

TITLE: INDIVIDUAL CARE UNIT

 Conception of the innovation:

Need of more individual attention in students.

DURATION:
Introduced in the year 2005, and still an ongoing
programme.

WHERE:

• Implemented at the Institution level as an experiment.

• Later on, extended to other government schools at
district level.
 FOCUS AREA:
• To enhance the academic performance of the
students by assigning care and responsibility
of at least three students to one teacher.
 OBJECTIVE:
• Improve academic performance of the
student.
• Improve student attendance at school.
• Improve class participation and interaction.
• Offer guidance, advice, counseling in personal
matters if desired.
• Improve teacher student relationship.
 DESCRIPTION:
• Check class attendance, record of regularity of
class works and home works, record of
disciplinary issues .
• Offer guidance, advice or counseling.
• Other all-round areas of student's personal
life, family background, social life etc.
 STRATEGY:
• Freedom to express concerns in smaller
groups.
 METHOD:
• Meeting the students in the assigned groups and
enquiring about their study habits, class attendance,
health etc.
• At times, meeting one to one, if the need arises,
because there might be issues where personal
counseling might be required.
• Meeting sessions were usually held after school for half
an hour or more if necessary.
• Maintenance of a meeting and progress register to
record sessions and submission for monthly reviews to
assigned coordinators or the Principal of the school.
 Resource requirement and
mobilization:
• Physical: A quiet classroom with chairs,
benches etc.
• Human: Co-operative students and an
empathetic teacher.
• Financial: Some small amount of money to
buy a register .
Support extended by Community and
the State/Education department:
• By conducting seminars of the heads of
schools for discussion and possibility.
• Implementation of the idea in all the
government schools in the district.
ENSURANCE OF CONTINUITY BEYOND THE
TENURE OF POSTING THE INNOVATORS

• Encouragement of the incumbent Principal of

the school to carry on the programme.
• Chances of further follow-up in the schools
where it was introduced.
Problems faced in giving shape to the idea
of innovation and its implementation:
• Some assigned teachers were irregular to arrange meetings with
the students
• Some students would play truant or refuse to participate in the
interactions
• In bigger schools, as was in my case, often there were not enough
rooms/space for meeting privately affecting the quality of the
sessions
• Some teachers would not maintain or submit the progress reports
regularly. thus affecting progress
• Sometimes, due to school and administrative duties, the head of
the school delayed the reviews of the meetings
• Often, since the assigned teachers were not trained in counseling as
such, could not maintain confidentiality of the sessions which hurt
the sentiments of some students
 Success of the Innovation:

• Many students started performing better

academically as well as their all-round
development.
• The school produced many subject toppers
capped by a student securing top 3 rank at the
state HSSLC examination in commerce stream.
• Students frequently ranked in the top three in
essay, extempore, debate, science seminars
etc at the district as well as at the state levels.
 Mr. Nyemwang
Subject topper award in Alternative
English along with the teacher
 CONCLUSION
• Better performance academically as well as
their all-round development.
• Produced many subject toppers.
• Frequent ranking in co-curricular activities at
state level.
Governor visiting MHSS
 Receiving Governor’s Commendation
Certificate from our honorable Chief Minister