Supervisory Practices of Elementary School Heads at Jolo IV District, Division of Sulu: An Assessment

Abstract

The level of supervisory practices of elementary school heads at Jolo IV District, Division of Sulu as perceived by the teachers in the context of classroom observation, in-service training, research and evaluation, and human and public relations, the significant difference in the level of supervisory practices of elementary school heads at Jolo IV District, Division of Sulu as perceived by the teachers when the data are categorized according to their demographic profile, and the significant correlation among the subcategories subsumed under the level of supervisory practices of elementary school heads at Jolo IV District, Division of Sulu as perceived by the teachers in the context of classroom observation, in-Service Training, research and evaluation, and human and public relations. Descriptive research design was used in this study. The study was conducted in the ten (10) schools under Jolo IV District, Jolo, Sulu. The 100 respondents are teachers from Jolo IV District. Purposive sampling design was used in this study. The researcher used an adapted questionnaire as instrument of the study taken from the survey questionnaire patterned from the previous study of Juhudi (2005). For the statement of the problem number 1, frequency and percentage distribution was used. For the statement of the problem number 2, mean and standard deviation was used. For the statement of the problem number 3, t-test for gender and One Way ANOVA for the rest of the variables was used, and for problem number 4, regression analysis was used. The following were found in the study: The data show that out of 100 teacher-respondents, more than half are 41 years old and above, more than half are females, a third of them have 11-15 years of experience. The result suggest that school heads consistently implement effective supervisory practices in classroom observations, consistently implement effective supervisory practices in organizing and managing in-service training for teachers, actively engage in research and evaluation practices to enhance the teaching-learning process, and demonstrate strong supervisory practices in research and evaluation. There are no statistically significant differences in the perceptions of supervisory practices across different age groups, between male and female teachers, educational attainment and length of service. A very high positive correlation exists between classroom observation and research and evaluation, a high positive correlation is observed between classroom observation and human and public relations, a very high positive correlation is found between in-service training and research and evaluation, a very high positive correlation is observed between in-service training and human and public relations, and a very high positive correlation exists between research and evaluation and human and public relations.