SUPEReXCELS

MODULE 13
Provide
Differentiated Supervision
First Edition
 Lesson 1:

The Differentiated System of Supervision

Options and Challenges

What is this Module About?
Supervising the school’s faculty

- Being the school hea or school administrator,

You ar the leader in an “Army of teachers”.
- You want to make sure that they do their
job and do it well.
3 INSTRUCTIONAL SUPERVISION
1. DEVELOPMENTAL SUPERVISION
- Covered in the SUPEReXCELS module,
“Provide Developmental Supervision”
2. CLINICAL SUPERVISION
- Discussed fully in the module,
“Provide Clinical Supervision”
3. DIFFERENTIATED SUPERVISION
- Empowers both teachers and school heads by
Providing supervision options that are tailored to
their needs.
 WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?
• Define differentiated supervision
• Distinguish from on another the four options
under differentiated supervision
• Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the
supervision options under differentiated supervision
• Prepare aDifferentiated Supervisory Program (DSP)
for your school
• Introduce your DSP to the teachers
• Implement DSP in your school
• Identify some resource options used in differentiated supervision
• Evaluate your school’s DSP
 FLOW OF INSTRUCTION
LESSON FOCUS TOPICS
1. The • Description of • What is supervision?
Differentiated differentiated • What is differentiated
System of supervision.
supervision?
Supervision: • Distinctions among the
Options and four options under • What are the four
Challenges differentiated supervisory options
supervision. under differentiated
• The advantages and supervision?
disadvantages of the • What are the advantages
four options under
and disadvantages of
differentiated
supervision. differentiated
supervision?
 FLOW OF INSTRUCTION
LESSON FOCUS TOPICS
1. Implementing • The steps in • What are the steps in
Differentiated implementing a implementing
Supervision in Differentiated
differentiated
Your School Supervisory Program
(DSP) in school supervision?
• Resources used when a • What are the steps in
differentiated system is preparing a
implemented Differentiated
• Monitoring and Supervisory Program?
evaluating a DSP in
• What are the procedures
your school
introducing a
Differentiated
Supervisory Program?
LESSON FOCUS TOPICS
• What are some of the
alternative resources
that could be used for
differentiated
supervision?
• How is the
Differentiated
Supervisory Program
implemented and
evaluated?
 LESSON 1: The Differentiated system
Of Supervision: Options and Challenges
What is This Lesson About?

- Supervising faculty members in an important component of a

School head’s job.
- During supervisory visits, teachers would expectedly
feel uneasy.
- This lesson shall give you an overview of
differentiated supervision, an alternative form of
overseeing the performance of teachers.
 WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?
• Define differentiated supervision
• Discuss the rationale od this supervision approach
• Describe the four options under differentiated
supervision
• Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of
each option.
WHAT IS SUPERVISION?

- “Is a process of facilitating the professional growth of

A teacher, primarily by giving the teacher feedback
About the classroom interactions and helping the
Teacher make use of that feedback in order to make
Teaching more effective.”
WHAT IS SUPERVISION?
- “Is a process of facilitating the professional growth of
a teacher, primarily by giving the teacher feedback
about the classroom interactions and helping the
teacher make use of that feedback in order to make
Teaching more effective.”
- This definition implies that supervision is an activity
that has target goals. The primary goal is to make
teachers more effective in the classroom by giving them
feedback that they use to improve their teaching.
 WHAT IS DIFFERENTIATED SUPERVISION?
- Allows teachers to choose the supervisory option
that is appropriate for them.
- Within certain limits, they are free to choose whether
they wish to receive clinical supervision, work with a
co-teacher in a cooperative development program,
or be mostly independent and direct their own
Professional growth.
 WHY DIFFERENTIATED SUPERVISION?
1. The use of clinical supervision as a “one-for-all”
Approach is inadequate.
2. Teachers have different growth needs and
learning styles.
3. Supervisors also have different personalities
and supervising style.
 WHAT ARE THE OPTIONS UNDER
DIFFERENTIATED SUPERVISIONS?

FOUR (4) TYPES OF SUPERVISION

1. Clinical Supervision
2. Cooperative Professional Supervision
3. Self-directed development
4. Administrative monitoring
CLINICAL SUPERVISION (CS)
- Pre-observation conference
- Observation
- Analysis and strategy
- Post-observation conference
- Post-conference analysis
 OVERCOMING THE DISADVANTAGES OF
CLINICAL SUPERVISION (CS)
Ways of overcoming the disadvantages of clinical supervision
• Tap others sources of supervisory assistance
• Train and support teachers who are willing to coach and mentor
Their colleagues
• Keep a log of observations by various school personnel that
you tapped
• Supervise with limited time
• Find out what the teachers’ preferred supervisory options are
• Find out what your preferred supervisory option/s is /are
 COOPERATIVE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (CPD)
- Also called peer supervision or collegial supervision. It is a
four-step learningprocess among colleagues.
FOUR (4) STEPS IN CONDUCTING CPD ARE:
- Teachers agree to form a group and commit to work together for
their own Personal growth.
- The teachers in the group take turns to observe each other’s
classes based on an established schedule.
- Each observer provides observation feedback during a
post-observation Conference
- The teachers then discuss common professional concerns and
work together on other instruction activities
FOUR (4) ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CPD ARE:
- The group relationship is formalized and institutionalized

- At least two observations are held in class and conferences

are held after

- The relationship is among peers and

- The relationship is non-evaluative

 SELF-DIRECTED DEVELOPMENT (SDD)

- Research has shown that teachers learn from self-instructional

Materials as well as from their supervisors or course instructions.
- As the terms implies, this option enables the individual teacher to work
Independently on his/her own professional growth concerns. The superviso
plays a supportive role and does not take an active or controlling part
(Glatthorn, 1997).
- As this option involves a lot of internal motivation, SDD works best for
Experienced and competent teachers.
 ADMINISTRATIVE MONITORING (AM)
- Is a supervisory option by which a school head monitors the work of
teachers on a random basis. This is achieved by making spot checks.
- SPOT CHECKS are brief, unannounced visits to ensure that the
teacher is carrying out his/her tasks and responsibilities in a
professional manner.
- Teachers are observed because they are being monitored, but not too
closely to a point that they feel they are being “meddled with”.
- This option is also known as the “drop-in approach” because of
the nature of how supervision is conducted.
 THREE (3) STEPS IN CONDUCTING AM
1. ADVANCED BRIEFING OF THE TEACHER,
- Teacher who prefer AM are briefed in advance that spot checks will
be conducted.
2. UNANNOUNCED VISIT BY THE SCHOOL HEAD OR ANOTHER SCHOOL
ADMINISTRATOR
- The school head/school administrator makes an unannounced visit a
class for observation.
3. POST-SUPERVISORY CONFERENCE WITH THE TEACHER
- The school head communicates the result of the unannounced
visit to the teacher privately.