Formative supervision is a process used by educational administrators to improve instruction in the classroom and student learning. It involves classroom visits, goal setting, follow-up visits, mentoring, coaching, feedback, and professional development opportunities. The primary goal is to continuously improve instruction in each classroom, as this is how administrators can indirectly impact student learning. Effective supervision aims to enhance teachers' instructional skills through behavioral changes.

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2. For Educational Administrators at
whatever level-pre-school, elementary,
secondary, college, university- one of the
most difficult responsibilities of the job is
the supervision of staff.
. You will put your personal stamp on
any process for which you are responsible.
That is the nature of education.

3. You bring with you your personal
strengths to all your work. And that
is the way it should be. This is a
personal business.
Most educational administrators
began their careers as classroom
teachers.

4. When you become an administrator you
must never forget you’re a teacher
first and an administrator second.
You’ve traded a classroom of
students for a school of adult
teachers for whom you are
responsible.

5. What is Formative
Supervision?
The term formative indicates forming
or developing something through
changes.
Supervision is the act of overseeing
something.

6. Formative supervision is the process of
one person (administrator) assisting
another person (classroom teacher)
in order to improve
instruction(teacher) and learning
(students)in the classroom.

7. The Process
It includes not just a classroom visits (including the
pre-visit and post-visit consultations)but goal-
setting, follow-up visits to the classroom,
provision of additional support to implement
changes, mentoring and coaching, provision of
professional development opportunities, feedback
on progress, along with many other aspects.

8. Improvement of Instruction in the classroom
is the primary goal of the process.
Through proper supervisions teachers the
way they work in the classroom. One of
the goals to keep in mind with formative
supervision is to make sure that very good
teachers continue to be very good.

9. Student learning is also a major focus of the
process. As an administrator you cannot
directly affect student learning to any
great extent. It is through the continuous
improvement of instruction in each and
every classroom in your school that you
have the most impact.

10. The primary function of classroom
supervision is to effect changes in teacher
behavior that will result in improved
instructional skill. Among the problems
associated with supervision are lack of
time, lack of specific supervisory
techniques, and poor interpersonal
relations.