Abstract:

“Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. It is the will to produce a superior thing.”
-- John Ruskin
In today’s technology mediated world, assurance of innovative teaching and learning environment is a key issue in ensuring effective learning and play a vital role in nurturing and developing quality school practices. Quality schools can be identified by their positive and welcoming atmosphere, cooperative and caring relationships between staff and with students and their strong focus on student learning. Underpinning this is effective leadership, shared by many, but led by the principal. Quality schools develop strong partnerships with parents and the community, communicate their shared purpose, high standards and values, undertake regular and ongoing evaluation and are open and honest in sharing information. Quality for school education in India should be on the basis of clear and agreed policy principles for achieving effectiveness, efficiency, equity and a socially and culturally cohesive society. Central and state governments will work cooperatively and pro-actively to ensure that the total level of resources available for schooling is adequate so that achievement of the national goals for schooling is a realistic objective for all students and public funding across different schools and sectors is distributed fairly and equitably through a consistent approach to assessing student needs and through having regard to the total level of resources available for students. High levels of knowledge, competencies and skills are considered to be the very basic conditions for active citizenship, employment and social cohesion, so the quality of school education is considered in India to be a concern of the highest political priority to meet global demands. The new millennium may be only a symbolic change of date but it marks an important stage for policy-makers in India. It encourages us to look to the future and turn our attention to the challenges which that future presents. For policy-makers, the challenge will be to stay in touch with, and ahead of, national and transnational movements which will change the face of world and impact on national systems of education. Education is in the process of a major change. Through innovations in technology and teaching methodology, academic institutions are being given an opportunity to work for the benefit of the student. This paper aims to provide wide range of objectives related to the area of quality schooling. In this paper, the author attempts to explain how quality schooling can be implemented by school institutions, especially through globally accepted structures, processes, and relational mechanisms. The author also proposes a total quality framework for schools and benchmarks it.

Keywords:

quality schooling, educational technology, total quality management, global experiences, system.