Recommending Teachers for Promotions
INSET for Teachers
Concept and Implementation Plan for an
In-service Training for Teachers
ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTIONS
OF SUPERVISORS
TASKS OF SUPERVISION
What do supervisors actually do?
William H. Burton listed the tasks he saw as
pertinent to the supervisor.
1. The improvement of the teaching act.
2. The improvement of teachers in service.
3. The selection and organization of subject
matter.
4. Testing and measuring.
5. The rating of teachers.
Harris enumerated ten tasks of supervision in the
following
rather detailed list:
Task
Task
Task
Task
Task
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Developing curriculum.
Organizing for instruction.
Providing staff.
Providing facilities.
Providing materials.
Tasks 1, 3, and 4 as preliminary;
6 and 10 as developmental;
and the others as operational