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Principal supervision is vital for promoting teacher motivation and professional growth. This guide emphasizes the importance of understanding one's values, setting personal goals, and fostering enthusiasm. It highlights essential communication practices and the need for principals to understand teachers’ values and strengths. Effective supervision entails various visits, constructive feedback, and support mechanisms. By focusing on key teaching components—subject knowledge, planning, material usage, classroom management, human relations, and instructional skills—principals can support teachers' journeys towards mastery and improve overall educational outcomes.
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Supervision Our most important job;Our only job
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
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?
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
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
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
1. Knowledge of subject matter • Pursuit of subject mastery • Scope and sequence • Ability to apply relevancy
2. Planning Skills • Beyond the textbook • Long-range/short-range • Plan B • Time and task management
3. Use of materials • Nonreliance on textbook • Ability to use a variety of materials • Ability to select appropriate materials • Updating of available materials
4. Classroom management • Effective discipline • Management of paper work • Group behavior • Use of psychology, knowledge of child development
5. Human relations skills • Motivational skills • Caring • Ability to identify abilities and needs • Ability to read body language
6. Instructional skills • Ability to determine learning styles • Ability to use differentiated learning • Testing, grading • Setting goals • Prescribe for learning needs