Supervision, admin, policy, staff development Flashcards
Educational supervision is what?
Never therapy.
What is the definition of supervision?
Assuring that quantity and quality of work performed is acceptable standard. To improve quality.
What purpose is goal attainment and organizational maintenance activities.
It can also be a political process that is concerned with when why how and whom services are allocated.
Administration
Performance evaluations
Based on previously agreed upon criteria and clear about what needs to change. Establishes future direction, expectations and indicators of progress
Theory x
Work for money
Scientific management theory
Uses informal relation and adaptation to focus on goals and power. Bureaucratization is ever changing process
Structural functional theories
Theory y
Get rewards from the work itself
Will lead to an effective organization
Human relations theory
Systems theory
Bureaucracies are social systems with subsystems whose functions are management, adaptation, maintenance
Administrative functions
Efficiency issues, problem-solving, maintenance of resources standardization of procedures, controlling agency function
Administrative tasks/service
Quality if service, goal setting, staff development, evaluation (program and staff) public relations
Policy phases
Problem Proposal Decision Planning Program Evaluation
Social welfare policy
Almost all decisions of government that affect the quality if life and impact the welfare if it’s citizens
What are he benefits of program evaluation?
It is a tool to satisfy social and professional demands for accountability
Program evaluation
Effort- eval of resources used to reach program objective
Impact- effect on social change
Effectiveness- how well objectives were met
Efficiency
Quality
What program eval Emphasizes the evaluation of expected results
Outcome model
Formative evaluations vs sum maritime evaluations
Formative eval focus on developing programs
Summative focus on established programs