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Perpetua J. Urio; Joseph Manase – Journal of School Leadership, 2024
This study examined the roles and tasks of school heads in promoting quality education in community secondary schools in Tanzania. Specifically, it assessed the contribution of school principals' administrative roles and tasks, as well as their supervision of classroom pedagogical practices. The study adopted a qualitative approach, utilizing a…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Secondary School Teachers, Administrator Attitudes, Teamwork
Seren, Mehmet; Özcan, Elif Gamze – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2022
Educational processes are supervised by administrative chiefs or inspectors for teachers and school administrators. Supervision may be stressful for those inspected although some time is given for preparation through prior notice. However, supervision, a way to improve the training and management processes as intended, should not be a phenomenon…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Supervisory Methods, School Supervision
Monica Hall Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative case study looks at school improvement through the on-the-ground experiences of principal supervisors. Beginning with a review of literature on how systems are organized for success, the role of district central offices, and the impact of leadership on improvement, I investigate the work of principal supervisors as they develop…
Descriptors: Principals, Instructional Leadership, School Districts, Central Office Administrators
Michael Muswere; Loyiso Jita; Godsend Chimbi – South African Journal of Education, 2024
Over the past 2 decades, worldwide research has established that the district office of education matters. Various policy initiatives are directing district offices to shift from limited managerial functions and begin to directly support learner instruction. The intention of this article, therefore, was to tease the question: How do school…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Inspection, School Districts, Teaching Methods
Heemskerk, Klaas – European Journal of Education, 2023
The increased diversity and autonomy of schools calls for a more professional approach to school governance. In response, attention has been directed to the structure of school boards in the Netherlands. However, previous research indicates that the effectiveness of governance is not so much about structure as it is about behaviour. Conflict, in…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Governance, Institutional Autonomy, Likert Scales
Katie Sloan – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2024
At a time when national discourse in the USA centers the need for professionalization, regulation, and surveillance, this article emphasizes the ways in which neoliberal logics harm those working in early childhood education in the USA. While stakeholders at every level debate proposed solutions to the early childhood education crisis, largely…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Teacher Salaries
Glanz, Jeffrey; Hazi, Helen M. – Journal of Educational Supervision, 2019
As a field of study, supervision has gone through a tumultuous history and continues to struggle for visibility. Its principles related to teaching and learning are often discussed, yet the term supervision has been controversial more than once. For a variety of reasons, historically and conceptually, supervision has traveled incognito under…
Descriptors: School Supervision, History, Educational Administration, Curriculum
Lapot, Miroslaw – History of Education, 2022
This article sheds new light on the genesis and development of school supervision, and also on relations between teachers' milieu and inspectors in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, focusing on the experiences from Galicia, a crown land of the Habsburg monarchy, existing in the years 1772-1918. Drawing on Michel Foucault's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, School Supervision, Inspection
Nurlaili, Nurlaili; Warman, Warman; Raolah, Raolah – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2021
A principal's supervision competency affects the improvement in the teaching and learning process; therefore, it needs to be improved. This study aimed to describe the principal working group (PWG) activities and the principal's supervision competencies after being assisted by school supervisor in the PWG at Sangkuang Island, East Kutai Regency.…
Descriptors: Competence, Knowledge Level, Principals, School Supervision
Segerholm, Christina; Lindgren, Joakim; Novak, Judit – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
The rise in the use of scientific evidence as a basis for educational policymaking has been a noticeable feature globally. In this study, we describe and discuss how educational research is used to make policy and governing evidence-based. To illustrate this, we use the Swedish Schools Inspectorate (SSI) as a case and focus on two of the processes…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Educational Administration
Cisneros-Cohernour, Edith J. – Research in Educational Administration & Leadership, 2021
This work uses the results of three research studies conducted in southeastern Mexico to identify critical issues for teacher leadership and professionalism. The results indicate that educational reforms during more than twenty years have not always considered the sociocultural and economic context of the schools, nor the preparation needs of the…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, School Supervision, Teacher Leadership, Professionalism
Peter, Tarsianer Muthanje; Gitonga, Ciriaka Muriithi; Kubai, Kaberia Isaac – Educational Research and Reviews, 2021
Personality types and practices are presumed to play a significant role in the improvement of schools' performance. This paper presents the findings from the analysis of quantitative data drawn from a larger study that examined the relationship between headteachers' personality types, instructional supervision practices, and performance. The study…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Principals, Administrator Characteristics, School Supervision
Sayuti, Omosidi Abdulrahman; Adetiba, Atolagbe Adedapo; Tukur, Muritala Abdulyaqin; Abubakar, Lawal Abdulmumin – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2020
This paper examines quality assurance mechanisms as correlates of goal achievement of Universal Basic Education (UBE) in public secondary schools of Kwara State, Nigeria. A structured questionnaire was developed and issued to collect information from the study samples. The questionnaire was administered to one thousand, five hundred (1.500)…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Educational Quality, Public Schools, Secondary Schools
Virgana, Virgana; Kasyadi, Soeparlan – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2020
This research was about school supervisors who play a strategic role in the management of human resources in the school environment. The study aims to determine the direct and indirect influences of organizational culture, personality, job satisfaction, and trust on the school supervisor's performance. The research samples were 180 supervisors of…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Trust (Psychology), Job Satisfaction, Personality Traits
Abonyi, Usman Kojo; Sofo, Francesco – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2021
In the past decade learning outcomes in public basic schools in Ghana have fallen far below the targets of the Ministry of Education as less than a third of primary school children reach proficiency in English or in Mathematics. In the wake of this low performance, there has been a call for the professionalization and strengthening of…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Instructional Improvement, Principals, Assistant Principals