Importance Of Supervision In Schools

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Supervision has its origin from the Latin word "Super video" meaning "to oversee" (Adenaike and Adebanjo, 2000). Effective supervision of schools and teachers ensures proper functioning and collaboration of all persons and materials involved in the processing of a student and the performance of the teachers. Therefore, "Supervision can be seen as a way of advising, guiding, refreshing, encouraging, stimulating, improving and overseeing certain groups with the hope of persuading people to desist from applying wrong procedures in carrying out certain functions on their jobs and at the same time try to emphasize the importance of good human relations in an organization" (Akilaiya, 2001).
Supervisory practices in any situation reflect the major …show more content…

To implement these aspirations effectively and to ensure the achievement of educational goals, schools splits the short-term goals and objectives. Schools achieve this by implementing appropriate curriculum aspired by society in order to resolve the problem. Since long time educational supervision were mainly focused on administrative activities due to lack of proper expertise, and they were stationed at a distance from the school. Thus supervisory practices mainly focused on controlling rather than concentrating and supporting teachers on their professional development requirements. This traditional approach resulted in reduced quality and effectiveness of supervisory practices, which in turn led to search for new organizational model for effective and efficient supervision including cooperation of the members and stimulation of group …show more content…

What roles does the educational supervisors play in improving the performance of teachers?
2. How do supervisors and teachers view educational supervision?
3. How are the challenges faced by educational supervisors affecting the professional development of science teachers?

1.2. Significance of the Study
The study can provide the below mentioned significant benefits.
• The study will enable those who are involved in supervisory practices to assess the concept of supervision with the objective to improve the teaching and learning process.
• The study will provide opportunity for teachers and supervisors to realize challenges faced by them during the process and provide their recommendations for improvement.
• The study can contribute as a source of supplementary information for future and further researches on the subject and can provide information to the all concerned about the status of educational supervision.
• The study can provide information to supervisors and other stakeholders on the teachers’ perceptions and expectations on supervisory services.
• The study can also contribute by providing insight to the schools towards proper utilization of supervisory activities to achieve the best

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