CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1Â BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The school’s teaching and learning activities. The goal of supervision is to enhance the teaching and learning process for the ultimate benefit of the learner, who is the center of education (Adefemi, 2007). Similarly, supervision is fundamentally a leadership role, a type of superior subordinate interaction in which a leader or officer trains, oversees, and corrects subordinates to improve effective performance. Effective and efficient school activities require supervision so that educators may give their all in their many responsibilities and make a significant contribution to developing learners who will be able to compete worldwide with their peers. Adelakun Adelakun Adelakun Adelakun Adel (2005). Teacher supervision is the process of mobilizing and motivating the school’s subordinate personnel to achieve the school’s aims and objectives to the fullest extent possible. Through the guidance and monitoring of teacher actions in school, supervision guarantees that the proper thing is done. That is, certain expressly allocated responsibilities will be subjected to checks and balances. According to Key (2000), education supervision is “that term of school management that focuses principally on the attainment of educational goals and objectives.” He goes on to say that supervision is an activity that entails leading, supporting, enhancing, and supervising teaching and learning in the hopes of gaining the teachers’ cooperation so that the supervisor might be good in his supervisory duties (Zee, 2003).
