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Educational Management

Notes (v) Helping Teachers with Classroom Management : A teacher not only teaches classes but
manages them, or more properly, manage the learning environment in such a way that
learning can go on. The skills which the teacher employs for this purpose are called classroom
management.
(vi) Helping Teachers with Curriculum Development : The word curriculum has different
meanings to different people. To some people the curriculum consists of all the experiences
undergone by children wherever they may be : in school, at home , on the street. To others,
the curriculum is a set of subjects which students ‘take’.
(vii) Helping Teachers to Evaluate the Curriculum : Evaluation is a fundamental part of the
curiculum development process. It is through evaluation that teachers learn whether or not
stated objectives have been reached.
(viii) Helping Teachers to Evaluate Themselves : Most teachers develop antagonistic attitudes and
fears towards evaluation.
(ix) 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.
(x) 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.
(xi) 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.
• Methods of Supervision
• The instructional plans can be actualized and will result in certain learning outcomes for students
by the valid supervisory methods. Without methods, it is impossible to know to what extent
one can attribute certain learning results.
• Collaborative Supervision
• Collaborative supervision is a recent idea. It developed with a view for cooperative help, sharing
of ideas, coordination etc., in the process of supervision.
• Scope of Supervision
• The educational institution is assumed to be a sub-system of a group of interdependent parts
which exist for the purpose of contributing to the overall goals of the organisation.
• This is done through the following functions which come under the scope of supervision.
(i) Technological and Psychological Support System for Teachers.
(ii) Supervision of Curriculum Design.
(iii) Continuing Professional Development of the Staff.
(iv) Evaluation of Teaching-Learning Process.
(v) Selection, Allocation and Development of Materials and Equipment of Instruction.
• Technological and Psychological Support System for Teachers : Development of human
resources in the teaching situation requires efficient supervision of instruction.
• Supervision of Curriculum Design : Supervision of curriculum design is essential for the
improvement and development of curriculum. Most of our schools neglect this.
In our school system the individual schools and the individual teachers should be encouraged
to move ahead on their own experimentation and innovation in the programme of curriculum
development.

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