Date of Award
1934
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (M.A.)
Department
Education
Abstract
The aspect of supervision that is particularly challenging to me is the problem of the present day. Our curricula have been so constructed, interpreted and planned that a high degree of integration and correlation should result, both vertically and horizontally. To realize these aims, teachers must have a great many conferences, both in groups and individually with the supervisor, who is usually the principle of the school
The conferences are needed not only to discuss the possibilities of integration and correlation, but to teach many of the teachers methods, objectives, devices, and projects for teaching the modern courses of studies most effectively.
No conscientious, wide awake principles, who is forced back into the classroom routine, is willing to fold his hands and try to shun the responsibilities of helping his teachers with their ever increasing teaching load and problems.
It is, therefore, very evident that there is an increasing need for a supervisor to help his teachers, and, since the time of many principles is taken up in part or entirely with classroom teaching, there is only one way to solve the problem.
Certainly the answer is a new technique of supervision, which can be administered without class visitations by the principal; and which will require the minimum of the teachers' and principal's time.
Certainly the answer is a new technique of supervision, which can be administered without class visitations by the principal; and which will require the minimum of the teachers' and principal's time.
This problem is of such paramount importance to public education I have prepared the following thesis concerning it and I have endeavored to show how supervision can be carried on by the conference method, as is the practice in the school of which I am principal and three-fourths' time teacher.
This thesis is a relatively personal report, it is based on actual experiences in most cases. Naturally, marks of identification have been substituted to make the thesis as impersonal as possible.
The purpose of the author is to give the reader definite principles, ideas and constructive examples of how supervision can be conducted to a creditable degree of success, by the conference method.
Real or likely discussions have been used to make the thesis ring true and be practical. The ideas should be of greater use to the reader, because of their purely theoretical nature.
Pages
149
Recommended Citation
Hoar, Wendell R.. (1934). An experiment in supervision by the conference method. University of the Pacific, Thesis. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/953
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