Supervision

1. Supervision Our most important job;Our only job

2. Principal’s Role in Motivation of Teachers • Understand your own values, strengths, needs; • Set personal goals; • Display enthusiasm for your work; • Communicate; • Understand their personal values; • Identify their strengths and needs • Provide evaluation and feedback

3. What do teachers want to know? • How am I doing? • How can I improve? • What will be expected of me in the next supervisory visit? • How will my work be evaluated? • What kind of help can I expect?

4. What do teachers want from us? • General interest and concern • Many formal and informal visits • Points out strengths and weaknesses • Talks with teachers • Welcomes teacher input • Is fair

5. Supervision: to enable the teacher to grow professionally, to “walk with” the teacher on her journey toward mastery. Evaluation: to determine if the teacher should be retained or terminated. Supervision: different from Evaluation

6. What are the components of good teaching? • 1. Knowledge of the subject matter • 2. Planning skills • 3. Use of materials • 4. Classroom management • 5. Human relations skills • 6. Instructional skills

7. 1. Knowledge of subject matter • Pursuit of subject mastery • Scope and sequence • Ability to apply relevancy

8. 2. Planning Skills • Beyond the textbook • Long-range/short-range • Plan B • Time and task management

9. 3. Use of materials • Nonreliance on textbook • Ability to use a variety of materials • Ability to select appropriate materials • Updating of available materials

10. 4. Classroom management • Effective discipline • Management of paper work • Group behavior • Use of psychology, knowledge of child development

11. 5. Human relations skills • Motivational skills • Caring • Ability to identify abilities and needs • Ability to read body language

12. 6. Instructional skills • Ability to determine learning styles • Ability to use differentiated learning • Testing, grading • Setting goals • Prescribe for learning needs