M.Ed. / Over the years, and even now, the Department of Education is busy trying to find a better method of managing and empowering educators with the aim of attaining whole school development. By proposing educator developmental appraisal systems the department was intending to develop educator instructional performance. This study concentrates on educator's instructional development inside the classroom through clinical supervision and its contribution to whole school development. The literature indicated that educators are negative to the style of supervision currently in use. Information obtained from different books clearly states that clinical supervision is a process that directly involves both the educator and supervisor. It stresses mutual understanding and co-supervision between educator and the supervisor. This research used a structured questionnaire to collect data on the opinions of the respondents in seven of the nine provinces in South Africa. The questionnaire contained 79 items and ten of these items were relevant to clinical supervision. The structured questionnaires were distributed to a convenient stratified sample in seven of the nine provinces. Based on the information from the questionnaire, each item relevant to this particular research study was analyzed and discussed. After the factor analysis, the significance of the difference between the factor mean scores of various groups for each of the factors that make up whole school development were analysed and explained. The data obtained indicates that a pleasant classroom climate is an important need of each learning situation. An atmosphere of collegial relationships among staff and the principal is a pre-requisite for whole school development. It appears as if the instructional development of educators can be better achieved through the implementation of the process of clinical supervision.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uj/uj:7277 |
| Date | 10 November 2011 |
| Creators | Busakwe, Mildred Nomataru |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
Page generated in 0.0021 seconds