This document discusses changing the timing of government primary schools in Dhaka city from starting at 7:30 AM to ending at 2:45 PM, to starting at 8:00 AM and ending at 3:00 PM. It notes issues with the current timing like student health and hygiene, time management, and workload for teachers. It identifies stakeholders who want and oppose the change, and argues the need for the change is urgent to improve education quality, teacher and student health, motivation, and concentration. If no change occurs, it warns of impacts like increased dropout rates and poor performance. It outlines two plans - Plan A involves convincing local education authorities to trial the change, then broader implementation if successful, while Plan B involves contacting

2. Changes
Start with
Me
School Timing: A burning issue in Govt. Primary Schools in Dhaka

3. The problem
Organization
Government Primary
School in Dhaka city
Context
To increase class time
and to give a tiffin break
for students, all the
government primary
school of Dhaka city
decided to start school
at sharp 7:30 AM and
end at 2:45 PM
Problem statement
❏ Student health and
hygiene
❏ Time management
❏ Workload for Ass.
Teachers and HT

4. Change needed
Timing of the school should
be
8:00 AM --- 3:00 PM

5. Stakeholders involved
❖ Head Teacher
❖ Assistance Teachers
❖ Students
❖ Parents
❖ Education officers
❖ SMC Members
❖ NGOs

6. Who wants this change?
❖ All the teachers
❖ Students
❖ Parents
❖ Community

7. Who are against the change?
Government and Government officials, specially
➔ ATEO
➔ TEO
➔ DPE officials
Instruction
Time
Suspicious

8. How strong is the need for change?
The need is urgent to maintain and improve the issues below
➔ Quality of education
➔ Mitigate teachers health issues
➔ To motivate teachers
➔ To attain full concentration of the students
➔ To attain full concentration of the teachers.
➔ To ensure students good health

9. If the change does not occur, what will be the
impact in the organization in next 2-6 years?
➔ Increase drop rate
➔ Poor performance of teachers
➔ Poor performance of students
➔ Impact on Board Exams
➔ Demotivation
➔ Health and hygiene problem

10. Solution
For a good solution we have
some plans to work on
Plan A
Or
Plan B

11. Road Map: Plan A
The ATEO and TEO have the power to change the time schedule of a Thana
community schools. So, we have to consider them as the highest authority in
changing the time schedule at first, because according to the principles of change,
within an institution to get the ultimate change at first short term changes or
changes in a small part should be brought out. If a Thana community’s primary
schools get changed in time schedule, later on following up the results,
assessments and observations on the outcomes it is quite possible to bring out
the change gradually in larger levels.

12. Road Map: Plan A
The following plans should be carried out to bring the long cherished change of
school timing-
● Open discussion on the issue within the assistant teachers community who
later on will connect the head teachers.
● Creating a strong supportive group by involving all the assistant teachers and
head teachers together.
● A powerful guiding coalition will be formed by the guidance of Head Teachers
association.

13. Road map: Plan A
● A vision and strategies will be created by the coalition group lead by the Head
Teachers who will directly approach to ATEO and TEO about the change.
● Strongly convincing ATEO and TEO to bring the change within the Thana
community

14. Road Map: Plan B
If a plan A doesn’t work we will go for plan B, where we will contact to the Ministry
of Primary and Mass Education through MP and other Mid-Level Officials.
We will discuss with them about the issue, we will present the whole scenarios in
front of them and make them understand the whole situation. A strong
documentation of the present scenario will be created in which the negative
impacts of an odd timing will be reflected.

15. Q & A