ADMINISTRATIV

E CONTROL

School Plant
and
Facilities

Objectives
To develop an understanding of the importance of
school plant, ground and equipment in education
To understand the different factors in the selection
of school site and the construction of school
building

Importance of School Plant and Equipment

The term school plant includes the school site, the

school building and school equipment. It is also
refers to the housing operation, upkeep and
extension of the existing plant. The school
administration and supervision have to provide a
school system with the adequate plant and
equipment to promote efficient instruction and to
meet the requirement of the space and safety.
The Deped follows a definite method and has a
fixed standard of acquiring school site and
constructing school buildings. It is difficult to do a
good job of teaching in a poor building and without
equipment.

Importance of School Plant and Equipment

A school building has no merit when built without

due regard to its educational objectives. It is
impossible to give the pupils the opportunities they
should have if the entire school plant is unsuited to
the educational program.
The only reasonable way of viewing the school plant
and its premises is in terms of their function to
facilitate instruction. An excellent school plant is an
important contribution to the general welfare of the
students as well as that of the whole of community
because the school building is increasingly used as
a community center

The Selection of School Sites

The selection of school sites considered the following factors;
1. School organization
2. Size of enrolment
3. Location
4. Immediate surroundings
5. Drainage and waste disposal
In the Philippines, school sites are acquired by purchase,
donation, and government reservation. The municipal,
province and national government may purchase land for
school sites. Private individual, PTA, and corporations may
donate land for school sites.

School Building
The Philippine school building are planned,
maintained and operated to provide total setting for
learning.

Factors to be Considered in the Construction of School

1. Location the school building should be located and

constructed in the quietest section of the town and city.
Most school buildings are located outside the town
where the noise and danger are minimized.
2. Health the children should be an important
consideration in the construction of the school building.
Ventilation, toilet and playground facilities, drinking
fountains, and lighting should be attended to properly.
It is also important that the school shoul be far from
the street or road free from dust.
3. Safety One-storey building must emphasized to
prevent collapse of the building anytime.
4. Lighting Opening of the doors and windows should be
adjust in order to receive direct light towards students.

Funds for the Construction, repair, or Improvement of

School Buildings

1. Appropriation made by the national government

2. Loans made by the national government to
provinces and municipalities
3. Municipal and national bond issues
4. National and municipal school funds
5. Voluntary contribution of private individuals
6. Contribution of the PTA
7. War damage payment
8. FOA (PHILCUSA)
9. ICA (International Cooperation Administration)

Classroom Equipment
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Teachers table and chair

Arm chairs for the students
Blackboards
Classroom Library
Bulletin Board
Shelves for teachers instructional materials
Display
Visual aids
Audio Visual

Care and Maintenance of School Building and Equipment

Construction of new buildings and alterations of existing

building are not the whole school housing effort. It is
also involves the continuing operation and maintenance
of the school plant.
The care and maintenance of the school equipment is
delegated to the school principal by Bureau of Public
Schools. It is the duty of the principal to see that the
school building is well maintained and that is free from
the risk of fire. He should also see to it that the building
is safe, kept in sanitary condition and properly lighted
and ventilated. He should inspect the building regularly.

Care of the Playground

Recreational activities in modern school play an
important role in the educational and physical
development of children. The ground must be
properly surfaced and cleaned regardless the
weather condition. The playground should be
improved the year round in order to make it
beautiful spot in community.

Administration of School Equipment and Supplies

The school administrator is responsible for the acquisition and
utilization of the school equipment and supplies. The
administrator should study the needs of the school and
should requisition necessary equipment and supplies to keep
the administration and supervision of the school at its highest
efficiency.
A careful analysis of the present procedure for the acquisition
of equipment and supplies for public schools reveals to us
that all acquisition orders are made through channels. This
procedure can be improved by granting the Division
Superintendent authority to make direct purchases of
equipment and supplies to plan orders for approved
textbooks and library books.

Personal Use of School Property or Equipment

Section 401 of the Revised Service Manual of the
Bureau of Public Schools and Section 2672 of the
Revised Administrative Code
The use of school property or equipment at his
residence and not in connection with his official duties
is strictly prohibited.
Section 403 of the Revised Service Manual of the
Bureau of Public Schools
The use of government owned transportation vehicle
for their personal convenience or benefit is not
permitted.

In-Service
Education of
Teachers

Purpose of In-service Education

1. To promote continuous improvement of the total
professional staff of the school system.
2. To give much needed help to the teachers who
are entering a new responsibility.
3. To keep professional abreast of new knowledge
and release creative activities
4. To eliminate deficiencies in the background,
preparation of teachers and other professional
workers in education.

Devices Used to Improving Teachers In-Service

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Teaching Demonstration
Teachers or Faculty Meeting
Individual or Group Conference
Intervisitation
Bulletins
Summer Classes
Workshop

Guidance and
Discipline

Meaning and Scope of Guidance

Guidance is founded upon the principle of
conversation of human life and energy. It is based
upon the fact that human beings need help. This
help, the school must provide. The term includes all
those influences and opportunities designed to
assist the students in discovering how he may make
his educational, vocational, social, cultural and
recreational choices and adjustments most
successfully and happily.

Kinds of Guidance
1. Educational Guidance this refers to the assistance given
to a person by the use of certain facts and standardized
procedures that he may plan and pursue his education in
the light of the abilities, past achievements, difficulties and
interest.
2. Vocational Guidance This concern that phase of guidance
in which are presented facts about jobs and occupational
fields, requirements of various occupations and
employment possibilities, in order to held students select
vacation more intelligently.
3. Personal Guidance This type aims to assist individual with
respect to his personal habits, attitudes and intimate
personal problems.

Kinds of Guidance
4. Social Guidance This concern that phase of
guidance which assists persons or groups in their
adjustments to social customs and practices that
they may develop satisfactory relationship with
their fellowmen.
5. Moral Guidance This refers to assist in the
development of moral character based on high
standards of ethics and moral.
6. Avocational Guidance This refers of assistance
given to individuals to enable them to spend their
leisure in worthwhile activities.

Kinds of Guidance
7. Health Guidance This type of guidance aims to
help the student to attain a greater measure of
physical and mental health. This guidance
include not only giving information about good
health habits but also to make use of doctors and
clinic treatments.
8. Civic Guidance This is concerned with enabling
the individual to be an efficient factor in the
local, provincial, and national government. This
type of guidance refers to the development of
civic conscience of the individual.

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Guidance is needed because of the significant

changes taking place in the home, in labor and
industry, and population. Rapid changes in
occupation, the introduction of new materials, and
changing standards also add to the difficulties of
occupational adjustments.

The Role of the Principal in Guidance

1. To lead his teachers in the endeavor to increase
their understanding of child behavior
2. To acquaint his teachers with ways of helping
children attain their best development.
3. To plan the administration of the testing program
and the interpretation and use of its results.
4. To acquaint himself with and make use of.
Facilities within the school system community for
giving help in cases where children are
experiencing adjustment difficulties.
5. To lead in the organization of guidance
committee.

The Principle of Guidance

1. The administrator or counselor should bear in mind that
guidance service should be based on the students
aims, interests and needs.
2. The counselor must guide the youth, not merely the
mal-adjusted, in ways that will help foster their best
growth.
3. The counselor must bear in mind the guidance service
should be organized to deal, not only with serious
problems after they have arisen but also causes of such
problems in order to prevent them for arising.
4. The counselor should provide for specialist in the
organization of the guidance program.
5. The counselor must keep in mind that no two
individuals are identical in native endowment or
environmental background.

6. The counselor must give the student absolute freedom

in selecting a vacation after knowing his own
qualifications and the occupations and education
opportunities available.
7. The counselor must keep in mind the advancement of
science and the social and economic changes make it
increasingly difficult to be familiar with all occupation in
their diversity.
8. The counselor must keep in mind that vocational
guidance must take account of possible variations in the
condition and personality.
9. The counselor must keep in mind that educational or
vocational guidance is not an event which may happen
but it is a process extending over indefinite period of time.

10. The counselor must bear in mind that guidance,

as an organized school function, it not considered
distinct and apart from the entire educational
program of the school.
11. The counselor must bear in mind that a proper
adaptation of curriculum and method to the needs
of individual pupils must be promoted.
12. The counselor must bear in mind that the
provision for, and the promotion of guidance
activities, are a major responsibility of the
administrative officers and not of classroom
teachers.