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Development of Minaret College Teachers and Students’ Capacity for Effective Teaching and

LearningPresenter: Salifu Baba

15 October 2007

Effective Teaching & Learning

• Some essential factors for effective teaching and learning are:

1. Meaningful2. Integrative3. Values-based4. Challenging5. Active6. Instructional Standards

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Learning Outcomes:

Participants should be able to:

1. Explain the meaning “SWOT Analysis” 2. Outline some priorities/objectives for 20083. Identify SWOT of Minaret staff & students4. Identify strategies for school improvement

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Following questions should be answered: Following questions should be answered:

•Where are we now?Where are we now?•Where do we want to be?Where do we want to be?•How do we get there? How do we get there? •How do we track our progress? How do we track our progress? •How do we measure our progress?How do we measure our progress?

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Where are we now?Where are we now?•Internal/External AssessmentInternal/External Assessment

Where do we want to be?Where do we want to be?•MissionMission•Vision Vision •GoalsGoals•ObjectivesObjectives

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How do we measure our progress?How do we measure our progress?•Performance MeasuresPerformance Measures

How do we get there?How do we get there?•StrategiesStrategies•Action PlansAction Plans

How do we track our progress?How do we track our progress?•Tracking SystemTracking System

Strategic Planning

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SWOT is an acronym for :

StrengthsWeaknessesOpportunitiesThreats

SWOT Analysis

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SWOT AnalysisFirstly, our objectives must be clear.

If a clear objectives have been identified, SWOT analysis can be used to help in the pursuit of those objectives. In this case, SWOTs are:

Strengths: attributes of the organization that are helpful to achieving the objective. Weaknesses: attributes of the organization that are harmful to achieving the objective. Opportunities: external conditions that are helpful to achieving the objective. Threats: external conditions that are harmful to achieving the objective.

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Conducting a SWOT analysis before defining and agreeing upon an objective (a desired end state).

SWOTs should not exist in the abstract. They can exist only with reference to an objective. If the desired end state is not openly defined and agreed upon, the participants may have different end states in mind and the results will be ineffective.

Avoiding Errors

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Opportunities external to the company are often confused with strengths internal to the company. They should be kept separate. SWOTs are sometimes confused with possible strategies. SWOTs are descriptions of conditions, while possible strategies define actions. This error is made especially with reference to opportunity analysis. To avoid this error, it may be useful to think of opportunities as "auspicious conditions".

Avoiding Errors

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Creative Use of SWOTs: Generating Strategies

If, on the other hand, the objective seems attainable, the SWOTs are used as inputs to the creative generation of possible strategies, by asking and answering each of the following four questions, many times:

1. How can we Use each Strength? 2. How can we Stop each Weakness? 3. How can we Exploit each Opportunity? 4. How can we Defend against each Threat?

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Some Importance of SWOT Analysis

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ssThreatsThreatsOpportunitiesOpportunities

WeaknessesWeaknesses

StrengthsStrengths

Analyzing Minaret College

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Thank you

for your PARTICIPATION

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Workshop

SWOT analysis for Minaret