Achievements are easy to come by!

Supervision is simply when a mother asks her daughter to prepare jollof rice for her, she provides all the needed ingredients, tells her how to cook it beat.

The mom comes to the kitchen in about 15-20 mins interval to check if she is doing the right thing, if she is not she makes corrections.
The supervisor is the mom,
The supervised is the daughter

Achievement is accomplishing a particular goal that has been made know earlier, it can also be viewed to be having passed beyond the set out mark.

Supervision involves more of regular check, periodic evaluation of every activity to ensure that it is inline with the set out goal. This check is on all the human resources put to work alone.

Human resources in a school involves the cleaners, the security, teachers, assistant teachers, head of departments, librarian, store keepers, secretary, school secretary, nurse, class teachers, etc

Checking on a teachers should be based on a checklist which should contain a list of the individuals job descriptions or what is expected of him/ her in brief.
This will help us know what to look out for when supervising

Supervision  should be scheduled - may be Wednesdays for assistant Teachers, Tuesdays for Teachers, and some selected days for other school staff.

Supervision must not be static in order for supervision to really be effective

Supervision for teachers and assistant teachers should include classroom environment, writing materials for students, teaching aids, teaching methods, teachers attitude, teachers use of words, the subject matter, use of examples.

Why supervision ?

It ensures that schools conforms to the rules and regulations and other government directives

To make teachers aware of various resources that can enhance their teaching function for the benefit of the students

To raise the standard of education by helping teachers

To improve the students learning conditions

To ensure that everyday efforts are not wasted in the school

Helps the school uphold a good name

Helps the administrator know the real needs of the school

An effective and efficient administrator doesn't just sit in the office literally doing nothing but ensure everyday's activities moves the organization closer to it stated goal.

Signs of a Successful School

A successful school also should have Vision and Mission just like every successful organization outside the education sector.

No matter the size of the school there must be a set out Vision and Mission for the school, it helps the organization to know what to do and what not to do.

A vision is who, what our school will be in the nearest future, it is usually very brief and straight forward, a short sentence for that matter.
(In football for example, it is the goal post that we see though we are at the center of the pitch)

A mission  statement tells the world how we intend to achieve this vision we said earlier, it is those things we do that will  help us achieve our vision/goal

(In football, it is the strategy we want to use to score a goal in the net, who are we passing the ball to, how many players, who will play the shot and the ball must be in the net.)

After doing all this:
Every member of the school must be aware of this, written boldly visible to both school members, visitors and the public.

Every one in the school must have a role to play, no one is just there doing nothing, remembered we are going somewhere

There should be a channel of authority - who authorize who on the task assigned to him/ her

Individuals/ Groups/Department are responsible for all the consequences of their actions either good or not too good

Everyone gets paid, appreciated, applauded for their little efforts in helping us achieve our goal at the appropriate time

All efforts are coordinated. We know when to do this and when not to do this

We put organizational interest/goals before our Personal interests.

We are work as a team, with the believe that we are all in this together.yearle

Have a founder's day to celebrate momentum and achievements and evaluate efforts yearly (You can check out my post on "Top Notch School Event")

When all this are present in our school, the top here we come!