2012年2月10日星期五

What to supervise There are many things to supervise

Representing government are members of School Boards or Teaching Service Commission, Local Authorities, Inspectors – all of which are under Ministry of Education.The goals are to promote orderliness, ensure that duties are executed appropriately, ensure that standard is maintained and correct mistakes. Supervision is also for the assessment of teachers for the performance of their professional duties, aim at helping teachers learn what their problems are and to seek the best methods of solving them, whether individual or group problems (Nwaogu, 1980). Therefore, teachers should be directed to:improve teaching methods and techniques,utilize newly discovered principle of group dynamics, provide for individual differences, locate and utilize community resources, evaluate their teaching competence,bring to awareness the effectiveness of classroom management,discover special abilities and qualities possessed by teachers,improve the incompetence's of teachers,evaluate/appraise the performance of the teachers and the number of teachers recruited to teach, and determine teacher's promotion and bring into conclusion teacher's transfer from school, his retention or his dismissal from the job.Types of Inspection Formal – are inspections that involve official notification from the inspectorate division to the institutions concern. It may be skeletal/casual supervision, spontaneous/comprehensive or full supervision.Informal – requires no official notification or information, it is usually a child of necessity/circumstance incidence and sheer coincidence/incidental inspection or verification of information. What to supervise There are many things to supervise. These include the school programme and resources, assessment of Principal, the Teachers, the non-academic staff, the students, the school plants (facilities and equipment), the school account, the school project, etc.?????School records Schools records are highly necessary written information kept about the school activities and events, some are legally required while some are not but essential for smooth and effective school administration. This information must be made available when needed by designated authority, for example the inspectors of schools. Reasons for Rosetta Stone English keeping these records include evaluation, orderliness, planning, administrative convenience, disciplining, grouping, continuity, revision, legal defense, etc.These records should be kept up to date if an effective administration is to be achieved, maintained and sustained. Record keeping should be a primary priority regarded as a necessity by school (Nwaogu, 1980). When this is done the school authority, staff and students will have records to make reference to.Oberleitner and Abowd (2007) rate keeping of records highly and suggest that parents should keep records of their wards. They were of opinion that keeping good records of their child's behaviors, treatments, therapies, and educational experiences can help them and service providers make more effective services available. Conditions for effective record keeping??????The following conditions are attached to school records:Precise – records should be precise, direct and unambiguous.Honest – records should be honestly filled, reflecting the true picture of things, incidence and situation of things.Detail – records should be detailed, not missing vital points and information.Complete – records should give complete information, not cut off necessary information or clue to the information or investigation.Regular – information should flow without unnecessary break, sequence/regularly recorded without missing points. Available – records should be made available to appropriate quarters for inspection, research, evaluation and classification without secrecy, staff and stake holders (education inspectors, parents and students) or visitors should have access to the records relevant to their needs or information searching for. Legal implication of school records??????It is rather unfortunate that most school administrators lack the knowledge of "legal liability" as related to teaching. Legal liability is a legal responsibility for causing damage. A liability is an obligation expected of the school administrator/teacher and failure to meet up to the expectation put the person in question to a disadvantage. As in many professions the risks in teaching are many and most of them have legal implication as regards teachers' responsibilities to learners. There are many things head of schools, class/subject teachers do that are not lawful and can result in legal tussle/crisis (Smissen, 1977).

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