The Academic Supervision of the School Principal: A Case in Indonesia

Abstract

A principal plays a vital role in managing school and improving teacher's quality teaching instruction in the class. This study explores the academic supervision of the principal in helping teachers improve their teaching profession to enhance students’ learning outcomes. Secondary data were collected from the document of basic data of education of the Ministry of Education and Culture. The online survey and FGD as well as  interview are used to collect data about the number of principal's monitoring teacher’s teaching activities in the class, the implementation of the principals’ supervision, and the improvement of teaching activities after supervision. The descriptive technique is used to analyse the data (Strauss dan Corbin, 1990, p. 62). The study reveals that the supervision follows the procedure (planning, implementation, reporting, and follow-up results of the supervision) as a guide  of monitoring. However, in the implementation, all processes in the guidelines are not appropriately followed, due to the heavy burden of the principal’s school task.