Relationship between Principal and Supervisor as Educational Supervisor

Relationship between Principal and Supervisor as Educational Supervisor 1. Principal The principal is a teacher who is appointed to occupy a structural position in a school and is tasked with managing the school. The success of the school is the success of the principal. The principal plays an important role in directing and influencing the existing school community, so that they can work together to achieve school goals is the role of the principal. A form of teacher performance in carrying out the task of educating students can be determined by work motivation. To influence teacher performance, effective principal leadership behavior is needed. The principal is someone who is responsible and has a role as a leader and leads the education process in his school, related to improving teacher professionalism, improving the quality of human resources, employees and all members under the auspices of the principal related to the school. The principal acts as a leader to reflect responsibility in order to be able to mobilize human resources in the school. The leadership function as a control of all teacher activities in order to improve teaching professionalism plays a very important role as a driver and school staff, students and also to examine problems that arise in the school environment. 2. Supervisor In the ongoing education process, improving school quality and learning achievement is a part of the supervisor that cannot be separated. Individual and group educational supervision is carried out to improve the quality of the learning process and outcomes, which is an effort to provide services to education stakeholders, especially school educators. Sudjana said that supervision is a form of action or activity from someone who is given the task, authority and responsibility to guide and assess other people or institutions that will be guided. Someone who is given the responsibility to carry out this task is only done by a supervisor. In the world of education, a school supervisor or educational unit supervisor is the name of a person who carries out this task. In principle, supervision must be carried out properly and correctly with the aim of improving the quality of education in each school that is guided. The authority and responsibility of the school supervisor in implementing major breakthroughs for the achievements made, namely by providing input to the school in order to carry out a better approach to support what has been planned by the school concerned in the success of the school program. The relationship that will never be broken between the supervisor and the school, especially the teacher. The form of guidance that has been carried out so far will continue to be established. Teachers who need guidance are even guided by the supervisor. 3. Relationship of the Principal as an Education Supervisor Academic supervision is a series of activities to help teachers develop their expertise and skills in managing the learning process in order to achieve academic goals. Efforts to help teachers develop their abilities to achieve academic goals are academic supervision. Therefore, the Ministry of National Education stated that the essence of academic supervision is to help teachers develop their professional abilities. The duties of supervisors who are bound by various regulations in academic supervision activities state that the responsibility and role of school supervisors are very large to help educators improve the quality of the process and learning outcomes of students. A supervisor is required to have more ability to be able to help teachers than the teachers they supervise. Therefore, school supervisors are targeted to have adequate competence and qualifications in order to carry out their duties as supervisors. School supervisors or educational unit supervisors are professional education personnel who are given full duties, authority and responsibility by authorized officials to supervise and foster education in schools both in the managerial field (school management) and academic field (technical education), appointed by the Education Office, either supervisors or principals. Thus, there is a need for coordination between supervisors and principals in carrying out academic supervision, because those appointed by the Education Office to carry out supervision and fostering are the authority and duties of supervisors and principals.