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Matters on supervision
Supervision plays a major role in creating atmosphere in the school system stimulating to the growth of more admirable qualities among the personnel of the teaching staff.
It is no longer regarded as a mere inspection of the work of the teachers, but as a form of democratic leadership – clearing house of the best ideas of the work in the field. It is in the scope of supervision to stimulate and inspire the teachers to do creative work and to encourage them to grow professionally.
The Educational Act No. 74 of the Philippine Commission failed to draw a demarcation line between school administration and supervision. According to this Educational Act, "Every administrator is a supervisor and every supervisor participates in administrative affair."
In the Philippine school system, therefore, administration and supervision supplement and complement functions of our school system.
The concept of supervision has undergone various changes in the Philippines as the purposes and philosophy controlling education, in general, and supervision, in particular, changes. In the early days, supervision was largely inspectorial; its purpose was to find the state of affairs and to see to it that every teacher toed the line. The method often used was dictatorial and coercive. Later, as supervisors acquired more professional training, supervision meant the improvement of teaching primarily through the training and guidance of teachers. At present, supervision is regarded as "an expert technical service primarily concerned with studying and improving the conditions that surround learning and pupil growth." Supervision then has become synonymous with democratic educational leadership.
Supervision is leadership and the development of leadership within groups which are cooperatively evaluating the educational product in the light of accepted educational objectives; studying the teaching-learning situation to determine the antecedents of the satisfactory pupil’s growth and achievement; improving teaching-learning situation and evaluating the objectives and its outcomes. This is now regarded as leadership in the improvement of teaching-learning process. Attention in supervision is placed not only in the improvement of the teaching act but in all factors that affect the efficiency of learning,
Supervision should be a matter of inspiration to the teachers. The criticism of their work should be judicious, fair and constructive rather than destructive. All "bossing tendencies" should be avoided. By virtue of the vast experience, a headmaster is there to help the teachers and not to pick holes in their work. Supervision should therefore be moderate.
A supervisor can motivate you to do better work or he/she is a type who can simply discourage you from doing something. Sometimes the approach matters.
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