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Unit 17: Educational Supervision: Meaning, Nature and Types

(v) One of the most significant function of supervision is to provide ______ . Notes
(vi) ______ is the function of supervision to stimulate direct and encourage the teachers to apply
instructional procedures.

17.7 Summary

• Supervision, for a supervisor, is a “positive force for programme improvement, for a teacher it
is either a threat to his individuality or an assistance and support to his profession.”
• Instruction implies that “there are persons to be educated, teachers to carry on education and
there are materials and methods by which education may be accomplished.”
• Supervision of instruction may be defined as, “the effort to stimulate, coordinate and guide the
continued growth of the teachers in school, both individually and collectively.”
• The following are the needs of supervision :
(i) For providing expert technical assistance : Education is a complex and difficult activity
because it deals with living persons.
(ii) For the growth of teachers : In spite of better professional training, teachers still need
continuous and improved training on the job in a realistic situation.
(iii) For helping teachers to prepare for teaching : Teachers have to perform diverse activities
and face a heavy load of work.
(iv) For keeping teachers up-to-date : With continuous social change there is going on development
in educational theory and practice.
• In order to carry on instruction, we take the help of administration and supervision. From the
standpoint of their contribution to education of students, administration is subordinate to
supervision.
• Characteristics of Supervision
• It has the following feature :
(i) It is a creative an dynamic expert technical service,
(ii) It provides leadership with extra knowledge and superior skills,
(iii) It promotes cooperative educational effort in a friendly atmosphere,

(iv) It gives coordination, direction and guidance to teacher’s activities,
(v) It stimulates the continuous growth of teachers and development of pupils.
(vi) It improves instruction and the teaching-learning situation and the process,
• The major functions logically under school supervision can be cited as :
• Inspection : This is actually a study of school conditions, to discover problems or defects of the
students teachers, equipment, school curriculum, objectives and methods.
• Research : This has something to do to remedy the weaknesses of the solution to solve problems
discovered.
• Training : This is acquainting teachers with solutions discovered in research through training.
• Guidance : Guidance involved personal help given by someone. It is the function of supervision
to stimulate, direct, guide and encourage the teachers to apply instructional procedures,
techniques, principles and devices.
• Evaluation : As an ultimate functions of supervision, evaluation appraises the outcomes and
the factors conditioning the outcomes of instructions and to improve the products and processes
of instructions.

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