THE ROLE OF THE EDUCATIONAL SUPERVISOR IN DEVELOPING TEACHERS’ FUNCTIONAL PERFORMANCE AT THE POST-BASIC EDUCATION SCHOOLS IN MUSCAT GOVERNORATE: TEACHERS' PERSPECTIVES

Abstract

This quantitative study discusses the role of the educational supervisor in developing teachers’ performance at the in the post-primary education schools in Muscat Governorate, through revealing the supervisory practices of the educational supervisors, as well as detecting the differences in the study sample responses according to (gender and experience) variables. To achieve these objectives; the researcher used descriptive analytical method, and designed a questionnaire consisting of (30) paragraphs divided into five areas: (human relations, planning, training and professional growth, field monitoring, assessment and tests). The study population consists of (1440) teachers of post-primary schools in the Governorate of Muscat. The random sample consists of (341) male and female teachers. After the data descriptive analysis through the statistical processing of the SPSS program, the findings revealed that: the role of the educational supervisor in the development of the teachers’ performance in the area of (human relations) was big, while the supervisors’ practices in areas of (Planning, training and professional growth, field follow-up, evaluation and testing) were at medium levels according to the teachers’ point of view. There were statistically significant differences at the mean level (α≥0.05) according to the gender variable in favor of the male teachers. There were no statistically significant differences for the experience variable.