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TEACHER SUPERVISION
RESEARCH FINDING:
Teachers welcome professional suggestions about improving their
work, but they rarely receive them.
COMMENT:
When supervisors comment constructively on teachers' specific
skills, they help teachers become more effective and improve
teachers' morale. Yet, typically, a supervisor visits a
teacher's classroom only once a year and makes only general
comments about the teacher's performance. This relative lack of
specific supervision contributes to low morale, teacher absen-
teeism, and high faculty turnover.
Supervision that strengthens instruction and improves teachers'
morale has these elements:
. Agreement between supervisor and teacher on the specific
skills and practices that characterize effective teaching;
. Frequent observation by the supervisor to see if the
teacher is using these skills and practices;
. A meeting between supervisor and teacher to discuss the
supervisor's impressions;
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improvement; and
. A specific plan for improvement, jointly constructed by
teacher and supervisor.
Principals who are good supervisors make themselves available to
help teachers. They make teachers feel they can come for help
without being branded failures.
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American Educational Research Journal, Vol. 2l, No. 3, pp. 579-
595.
Natriello, G., and Dornbusch, S. M. (l98l). "Pitfalls in the
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