 An Abbreviated Statement of Cox’s
Improves the selection and the
Principles of Supervision for Creative
Teaching Given by Ayer
a) Supervision for creative teaching helps
teachers in setting up and achieving their
own teaching objectives.
b) Supervision for creative teaching stimulates,
guides, and rewards worthwhile activities
c) The integration of the teacher’s personality
is fundamental
d) Minor innovations and successes deserve
first consideration
e) Self-supervision is an inherent quality of the
creative artist
f) Understanding and skill in creative teaching
are achieved gradually and progressively.
g) The support and encouragement of creative
teaching are potentially present among
community groups and school officials
h) The creative teacher receives personal
satisfaction and should be given wide
recognition for creative teaching.
5. Evaluation
 This can be considered the ultimate major
function of supervision.
 The purpose of evaluation is to appraise the
outcomes and the factors conditioning the
outcomes of instruction, and to improve the
products and processes of instruction.
 It is the duty of the supervisor to help develop an
adequate instrument with which to measure the
teaching-learning process and set up standards
of attainment as are necessary for the appraisal
of the teacher’s progress in teaching, and the
pupil in his learning.
 School work should be evaluated in the light of
desirable educational objectives and social
standards.
 Evaluation must be based on educational aims
and objectives.
 Significant Purposes of Evaluation:
1. Discovers the needs of the
individuals being evaluated and
familiarizes the teachers with
the pupil’s needs and
possibilities.
2. Relates measurement to the
goals of the instructional
program.
3. Serves as a guide for the
selection of supervisory
techniques.
4. Appraises the educational
growth of pupils which is the
end-product of supervision.
5. Appraises the quality of
supervisory processes and the
supervisor’s competence.
6. Appraises the quality of the
teaching processes and the
teacher’s efficiency.
7. Aids pupil-teacher planning
8. Serves as a means of improving
school-community relations.
9.
use of guiding principles in
supervision.
10. Appraises the success of the
instructional program in
particular and of the supervisory
program in general
OTHER FUNCTIONS OF SUPERVISION
3 Major Functions of Supervision with the
Supervisory activities under each (Barr, Burton &
Brueckner)
1. Studying the Teaching-Learning situation:
a) Analyzing the objectives of
education and supervision
b) Studying the products of
teaching and learning
c) Studying the satisfactory and
unsatisfactory growth and
achievement.
d) Studying the interests, abilities,
and work habits of the pupils.
e) Studying the teacher at work,
and aiding her to study herself.
f) Studying the curriculum
operation.
g) Studying the materials of
instruction and the socio-
physical environment of
learning.
2. Improving the Teaching-Learning Situation:
a) Improving the educational
objectives and the curriculum.
b) Improving the teacher and her
methods.
c) Improving the interest,
application, and work habits of
the pupils.
d) Improving the materials of
instruction and the socio-
physical environment.
3. Evaluating the Means, Methods, and Outcomes
of Supervision:
a) Discovering and applying the
techniques of evaluation
b) Evaluating the general work
supervision
c) Evaluating the results of
supervising plans.
d) Evaluating the factors limiting
the instructional outcome
e) Evaluating and improving the
personnel of supervision.
 Important Functions of Supervision which
pertain to teaching and learning (Crow and
Crow)
1. The interpretation of educational
objectives
2. The study and improvement of the
curriculum and materials of
instruction
 3. The measurement of the individual
pupil’s ability to learn.
4. The guidance of pupils toward
improved study and in their work
habits.
5. The improvement of teaching
techniques.
6. The evaluation of educational
outcomes.
7. The critical study and improvement
of supervising techniques.
8. The stimulation of whatever creative
ability may be inherent among
supervised.
 Like the other functions, Crow and Crow also
recognize inspection, training, guidance, and
evaluation as major functions of supervision.