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What is Supervision?

What is Supervision?. To watch over a particular activity or task being carried out by other people and ensure that it is carried out correctly To be in charge of a group of people engaged in some activity and to keep order or ensure that they carry out a task adequately Encarta Dictionary.

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What is Supervision?

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  1. What is Supervision? • To watch over a particular activity or task being carried out by other people and ensure that it is carried out correctly • To be in charge of a group of people engaged in some activity and to keep order or ensure that they carry out a task adequately Encarta Dictionary

  2. What is Supervision? Supervision is more about appreciation than monitoring. It is more about celebrating excellence than identifying and correcting mistakes.

  3. Why Supervise? • To ensure quality services • For staff retention • Ongoing monitoring • Continuous quality improvement

  4. Development of Supervisors • What have I gotten myself into? • Maybe I do know how to teach • What’s new? • This is who I am

  5. Supervisory Development Caruso, J. & Fawcett, M. T. 1999. Supervision in early childhood education, A developmental perspective. Teachers College Press, New York, N Y

  6. Core Principles • Develop an atmosphere of safety, trust and consistency • Respect and teach the importance of supervision • Create an environment of learning and exploration

  7. Core Principles • Introduction of new ideas as possibilities • Use of self-reflection • Learn from your mistakes

  8. Components of Supervision • Job description • Interview • Observation • Professional development goals • Ongoing feedback • Accountability • Continuous quality improvement

  9. Job description Orientation Observation Feedback Goal setting Evaluation Cycle of Supervision

  10. Observation • Purpose • Strategies

  11. Feedback • Timing • Formal and informal • Documentation

  12. Goal Setting • Professional Development • Accountability

  13. Professional Development • Types • Individual

  14. Phases of Teacher DevelopmentLillian Katz Caruso, J. & Fawcett, M. T. 1999. Supervision in early childhood education, A developmental perspective. Teachers College Press, New York, N Y

  15. Caruso, J. & Fawcett, M. T. 1999. Supervision in early childhood education, A developmental perspective. Teachers College Press, New York, N Y

  16. Caruso, J. & Fawcett, M. T. 1999. Supervision in early childhood education, A developmental perspective. Teachers College Press, New York, N Y

  17. Caruso, J. & Fawcett, M. T. 1999. Supervision in early childhood education, A developmental perspective. Teachers College Press, New York, N Y

  18. Caruso, J. & Fawcett, M. T. 1999. Supervision in early childhood education, A developmental perspective. Teachers College Press, New York, N Y

  19. The Generations • Traditionalists: 1922 – 1943 • Baby Boomers: 1944 – 1964 • Generation X: 1965 – 1977 • Generation Y: 1978 – 1994 • Generation Z: 1995 - ?

  20. retrieved 03/07/2010 from http://apps.americanbar.org/lpm/lpt/articles/mgt08044.html

  21. http://nkilkenny.wordpress.com/2006/08/30/generational-learning-styles-and-methods/http://nkilkenny.wordpress.com/2006/08/30/generational-learning-styles-and-methods/

  22. Establishing a Learning Environment • The director’s responsibility • If teachers have a good learning environment for themselves, they will create a good learning environment for children • Adults need to be safe, have enough resources, and be encouraged to play

  23. Establishing a Learning Environment • Examining Our Beliefs About People • Understanding Adult Learners • Creating An Adult Environment • Providing Choices

  24. Thoughts for Staff Development • Give thought to the environment • Provide choices for different needs and interests • Emphasize dispositions • Promote observation, collaboration, and mentoring • Create a culture of curiosity, research, and storytelling

  25. Evaluation • Job Description • Goals • Accountability

  26. Quality Improvement • Gathering data • Planning

  27. Be clear Be direct Be empowering Be consistent Being Heard

  28. Summary • Effective supervision requires specific skills. • Supervision is a process for supervisees and supervisors • Supervision is most effective when customized to the employee. • Communication is the key to effective supervision.

  29. “The best supervisors I’ve had…listened intently, found something to value, and then recast what I told then, embellishing it with something of their own. The experience of good supervision is like finding a fellow traveler on a challenging journey, a companion worthy of trust who has visited similar destinations. This fellow traveler knows many routes to our goal but is open to discovering a different path, a path we walk together, often with me in the lead, except when I miss the flowers to smell, or when I stumble or can't find my way. Then the supervisor is there to guide, even to prod a little, to bolster my courage, and to help me regain my footing and focus, to help me find my strength.”R. Shahmoon-Shanok

  30. Coaching & Mentoring Managing & Overseeing Building & Supporting Community Carter, D & Curtis, D. 2010. The Visionary Director, 2nd. Redleaf Press, St. Paul, MN

  31. Calendar Time Spent – use highlighters • Managing and Overseeing • Coaching and Mentoring • Building and Supporting Community

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