The following are the Roles/Goals, Pains, and Gains for a secondary school Principal in India.
Roles / Goals
- Teacher
- Hiring teacher
- Assess teacher capability
- Form and Execute training plan
- Mentoring
- Textbook selection (map syllabus to book)
- Teacher scheduling & allocation
- Feedback/review cycle (teacher effectiveness)
- Setup & Monitor scoring rubric for assessment
- School admin reports and regulatory compliance
- School performance
Pains
- Admin / Hiring / Training
- Transactional exception management
- Leave of absence
- Admissions
- Student Injuries
- Transport
- Teaching Logistics
- (stationaries, books, papers)
- Event Management
- [budget planning, to event coordination]
- Syllabus coverage
- Board & competitive exam preparation
Gains
- Social recognition of the school
- Student performance
Your challenge is to come up with 3 or 4 hypotheses that would validate our product’s feature set.
Suggested Solution:
- We believe that Principal would welcome Technology as it would ease their pain of managing admin and operational tasks
- We believe that Principal would use a technology platform to mentor and manage performance of Teachers
- We believe that Principal would look for a tool that could improve Learner’s performance
- We believe that Principal would prefer a tool that helps in effective rubrics for assessment
- We believe that Principal would look for Social Recognition of their school
