SUPERVISI AKADEMIK KEPALA SEKOLAH DALAM MENINGKATKAN MUTU PEMBELAJARAN
Abstract
Supervision of students makes an important contribution to improving the quality of school graduates, characterized by supervision activities carried out by the school principal, these activities are the basis for seeing the development of students, one of which is from the academic aspect. The essence of academic supervision is to guide teachers in improving the quality of the learning process. So the target is the teacher in the learning process, which consists of the main material in the learning process, preparing the syllabus and lesson plans, selecting learning strategies/methods/techniques, using media and information technology in learning, assessing learning processes and outcomes and classroom action research. Apart from providing guidance and direction in improving teacher abilities, a supervisor must also provide motivation and control over teacher performance. This motivation aims to provide work enthusiasm to teachers, so that teachers will try to improve their performance. The implementation of the principal's academic supervision in improving the quality of graduates consists of planning academic supervision, implementing academic supervision, evaluating academic supervision and following up on academic supervision. At the end of this article, starting from the discussion and results, it can be concluded that student supervision is considered to be able to improve the quality of school graduates based on activities ranging from planning to supervision.
Keywords: Academic Supervision, Quality of Graduates