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Unit 19: Planning and Organizing Supervisory Activity

Self Assessment Notes

1. Fill in the blanks :
(i) Planning ensures a realistic ______ of the whole teaching-learning situation.
(ii) The short term or ______ is Concerned with individual teachers and helping them to solve
their particular problem.
(iii) The centre of all supervisory effort is the ______.
(iv) The activities should be Cooperatively planned under ______.

19.5 Organizing the Supervisory Programme

Having, planned the supervisory programme we should proceed to organise it. Organization refers
to the structured responsibilities and relationships allocated to the various executive and supervisory
positions in a field of employment. It refers to the structure or the form of the organization, the
vertical and horizontal lay-out of the power positions in the organization. Organization refers to
two things—the structure or machinery of organisation and the process of organizing. The former
refers to the positions and persons occupying them, and the latter refers to relationships, direction,
control, authority, coordination, etc., that is the functions and processes through which the efforts of
the workers flow.
Organization of the supervisory programme has to take cognizance of both these elements. The
organizational pattern of supervision is the systematic array of anticipated requisite tasks appropriate
to the achievement of instructional purposes, woven into an organic structure of defined positions
with described power or control relationships.

19.6 Need of Ogranizing the Supervisory Programme

The following considerations indicate the need for organizing the supervisory programmes :
1. Organisation is needed to meet the ever-increasing demands of the educational enterprise :
In recent times, the machinery of organisation has become very complex. Due to social change,
technological advancement and the complexity of the needs of everyday life, the school of
today has to perform multifarious duties, for which it has to set-up an appropriate machinery
and offer an ever-increasing number of services to the children and the community. It should,
however, be remembered that much more important than the machinery are the functions for
which it has been set-up, namely, the realisation of the goals of education. The systematic
arrangement of duties and relationships between the people occupying the various positions
are necessary for the accomplishment of group purposes. Due to the complexities of demands,
the school system has to be divided into two departments, one dealing with the services and
the other with the subjects and fields of the curriculum. The department of services includes
things like attendance, library, guidance, care for exceptional or defective children, etc. The
department of curriculum may be combined with supervision and then it may be called the
department of instruction. Organization is needed separately for each of these departments
and also collectively to coordinate their activities.
2. Organization is needed to combine together various youth services : The various school
services should be coordinated with similar other outside agencies, such as child guidance
clinics, public health and recreation agencies, boy scouts, museums, zoos, public libraries, public
parks, neighbourhood clubs, hobby centres, parent-teacher associations etc. Besides the school,
many other public institutions can offer indirect educational service, such as fire, police, traffic,
juvenile courts, etc. ”School people want to work with other community organizations dealing
with youth, so that each may contribute to the work of the other and more clearly relate the
work being done for youth. The school people are also anxious to have the advice and support

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