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Unit 15: Participation of Stakholders in Educational Management

Limitations of Monitoring Notes
The following are two main limitations of the monitoring role. If the responsibilities are given
to undeserving candidates, then the purpose will not be served. It may create problems in the
school. It requires right delegation of authorities.
(2) Supervision
Are all the programmes of school going properly or not ? For having knowledge of these
things, the headmaster requires vigilant supervision on them. This is his most important
responsibility. Through supervision only, he can have the knowledge of all the activities of the
school and he can be successful in knowing this also that in which field are the weaknesses so
that some steps may be taken to improve them. No part of the school is out of the vision of the
headmaster because every section of the school plays some role in making or unmaking of
students. It is not sufficient to pay attention on the teaching programme only, notwithstanding,
what do students do outside, the school games and sports are the life of hostel, it is also necessary
to see how students lead hostel life. The supervision of all these things should be done not only
for the mental development of the students but also for the development of physical, social and
ethical one. Study regarding responsibility of supervision of head master could be done under
the following heads :
(1) Teaching Work : The headmaster has got very important responsibility in this area. He has
to look after teaching work of various classes regularly. If he prepares a plan of supervision
programme. supervision of all the classes and subjects could be possible and non disturbance
would be followed in this work. When he goes to classroom for supervision, he should keep
a register (inspection register) with him. He should write down those suggestions through
which he wants to bring improvement in teaching work and wants to raise the standard or
level high. He should give his suggestions in the form of advice only. The headmaster can
make supervision successful by paying attention on the following points :
(a) At the time of supervision in the class, the headmaster should not adopt the view of fault
finding, notwithstanding his view-point should be constructive and sympathetic, because, if
he would go in the class with the objective of fault finding the teachers would start to see
him with suspicion and most probably he may lose their faith. His entrance in the class
should be as an adviser, co-operator and friend.
(b) At the time of looking after the teaching work, the headmaster should keep in his mind that
teacher is working with which kind of material that is, he should watch the level of children,
material available, teaching method etc. The headmaster should keep in his mind the
temperament of the teacher, interest and ability also at the time of inspection.
(c) The headmaster should not impose his suggestions on the teacher, notwithstanding he should
provide him opportunity for discussions. With this, they both would understand each other,
and the teacher would accept those suggestions as well being of his own.
(2) Hostel Supervision : Schools, which have hostels, it also becomes a duty of their headmasters
that they should as and when supervise those hostels also. The headmaster should keep a
watch on the food of students, management of food preparation, arrangement of drinking
water, the place of dining (Dining room), and clealiness of utensils etc. So, it is necessary for
him to inspect all these things and sometimes he should eat food with the students so that
the should know what kind of food is served to the students.
He should supervise the sleeping rooms of the boys also and it should be watched too that
cleanliness and light in rooms are proper or not. Besides, he should manage to know this
also that the children do not study by liely (lieing). They keep their rooms in order or not. He
should Inspect the arrangement of bathroom and latrines and urinals etc., also.
The headmaster should look after the hostel activities. He should also see that the students
properly utilise playground, library, reading room and common room etc., or not. In addition

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