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Unit 18 : Qualities of an Effective Supervisor

(7) Helping Teachers to Evaluate the Curriculum : Evaluation is a fundamental part of the curiculum Notes
development process. It is through evaluation that teachers learn whether or not stated objectives
have been reached. It is only through evaluation that intelligent curriculum decisions can be
made.
The objective of supervision is to help teachers to develop an evaluative frame of mind, an
inquiring attitude, and a research-orientation.
(8) Helping Teachers to Evaluate Themselves : Most teachers develop antagonistic attitudes and
fears towards evaluation. Therefore, the objective of democratic supervision is to help teachers
to evaluate themselves rather than evaluating their competence by the help of a supervisor. The
role of the supervisor in this evaluation should not be a threat to the teachers. It should be a
help and an assistance. He must master a variety of techniques for getting teachers to look at
their own behaviour.
(9) Helping Teachers to work Together : Unless one lives in deserted island, much of one’s life
from the cradle to the grave will be spent in groups of some kind or another. Most of the word’s
work is conducted through group interaction. No less true of the school; most of the work of the
school is carried on through interaction of personnel of the school. In order to accomplish much
of the school’s work teachers must learn to work together in groups and one of the objectives
of supervision is the enhancement of teacher’s skills is working cooperatively.
(10) Helping Teachers through In-service Programmes : Every year on the campuses of hundreds
of training colleges several thousand people receive the long-awaited B. Ed. degree which
certifies that they have successfully completed their teacher training programme. With this
degree they join the competition for teaching jobs. The talented, the lucky and some times the
favoured get jobs in a tight market. Within a period of only ten months stay in the colleges of
education, the student-teachers receive both knowledge in theory and practice of the training
programme. Thus the preservice training programme usually culminates in a brief student-
teaching experience. Hence there is the needs for a continuing in-service programme.
The goal of in-service teacher education programme is the continuing professional development
of the teachers which in turn will enhance the achievement of the learners. Among the types of
organised in-service programmes are seminars, workshops and institutes, conferences,
supervision of student-teachers and visiting days. Organization of these activities is one of the
most important objectives of supervision.
(11) Helping Teachers in Providing Them with a Reasonable Workload : Another important
objective of supervision is to look to the teaching load of the educational programme. In secondary
schools teachers hold of the educational programme. In secondary schools teachers hold a
heavy load of both instructional and non-instructional activities. A teacher is also expected to
teach three or four subjects. Subject combinations assigned to the teachers often have no
fundamental relationship. The young and inexperienced teachers tend to have a greater load.
This situation demands supervisory effort to help in adjustment of teaching load.
Supervision thus has many different objectives for the improvement of professional techniques
and procedures and to formulate the theory that will guide, advice and judge the progress of
the school system.

A successful curriculum requires an independent working relationship among all
school personnel and cooperative planning for that relationship.

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