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Educational Management

Notes (8) Principle of All-Round Development : Inspection should not be cursory in character. At least
two or three days should be devoted. The work of the teacher should not be judged in a few
minutes. More careful and longer supervision is necessary. Doing is always better than telling.
Demonstration lessons by an inspector are more useful than pages of suggestions. However, It
must be stressed that it is a when an inspector finds a class weak in a subject or finds
unsatisfactory methods being used by the teacher Such a step is likely to lower the prestige of
the teacher in the eyes of the students.
(9) Principle of Reality : The inspecting staff should not expect impossibility. They should
understand the local conditions perfectly well and then decide for themselves what progress
may reasonably by expected.
(10) Principle of Integration : The written work of the students should be carefully assessed. In the
case of subjects with practical work such as science, agriculture and drawing, the inspectors
should always get practical work done by the students.
(11) Principle of Linkage : Inspection should not be confined to the four walls of the school. As the
school is to serve the community and is intimately connected with it, the inspector should help
the school to develop proper contacts with the community and to improve its relations with
people.
(12) Principle of Planning : Inspections must be planned in advance. They should not be a hit-or-
miss affair. A good-planned inspection will have a set of clearly stated objectives and will
contain an outline of the devices, means and procedures which are to be used in the attainment
of these objectives. It will also include a clear out-line of the criteria, checks or tests which are
to be used to the results of inspection in order to determine the success or failure of the
programmes.
(13) Principle of Cooperation : The academic work of the school should be thoroughly checked by
a panel of experts with the Inspectors as chairman. Inspection should be planned in such a way
as cooperation of all concerned is readily available.

During his visit the inspector confines his attention to see that the school observes the
Departmental rules and regulations, that it has a suitable building and adequate staff,
that registers, records and accounts are properly kept, that Government grants are
properly utilised and that the prescribed curricula and textbooks are taught.

20.3 Qualities of Good Inspector

Brilley suggests that the motto of an Inspector should not be, “Cheek your teachers, frighten your
teachers, weaken your teachers, and examine them,” but its variant, “Train your teachers, inspire
your teachers, encourage your teachers and trust them.”
(l) Man of Educational Vision : He should be aware of new trends in education, latest techniques
in education and recent problems in the field. He should not merely assess the academic
achievements of the school but also the all-round progress of the school should occupy his
attention.
(2) Man of Faith : There is no use of being impatient, for growth and improvement always take
time. The inspector must have a far-reaching programme, but putting through it, he should
proceed item by item.
(3) Man of Experiments : He must be an experimenter. An able inspector will select forward-
looking schools where the teachers and the headmasters have a progressive outlook on education

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