Supervision and school administration

Abstract

School supervision, in administrative terms, can be considered as essential for the management of schools nowadays. This way of naming comes from enterprise organization, and yet is different from school organization; because of that reason the right naming in Spanish hasn't been found yet. In fact, school supervision has the purpose of making possible teaching activities. To same degree we could state that those who manage are the persons in charge; management is not exactly a teaching act, although this functions ought to be planned in such a way that the headmaster and teaching staff could educate properly. We have to bear in mind the place and kind of society where school is located. If we contemplate school arrangements as a real system, school supervision will have raison d'être nowadays. Organization is important for production and people, and school arrangements have to be contemplated through the school as a whole, as Ouchi says in his Z theory. Therefore, school supervision has to make easy the school unity completely. We should join this view and Dobrov's one who says that the Orgware of any organization has to be constructed in a soft way, keeping in mind complex levels such as Hardware and Software. As a result of that, school supervision would mean answering unavoidably to complex technology where every teaching institution is involved. Now then, not everybody accepts the need of that supervision because, from our point of view, they confuse this function with a job. Both functions could be mixed up, but it is essential to distinguish between them. Otherwise, having the aforesaid function his origin and development in private macro-schools, it can be understimated by other kinds of plannings from other teaching institutions. We defend such a function as something completely essentia1 in every kind of school, private or not, big or small. From our point of view, this functions is essential in every school. And even though part of this function will be carried out by the government in public schools, somebody should take charge of the aforementioned function in each teaching institution. On the other hand, if this ware carried out, we can be sure of a very good future or teaching institutions which are progressively changing.