Sun.Star Baguio

This column and what management and supervisio­n means

- Coninuatio­n…

SO, what happened was that the lady men tor at the top of her voice ordered the stu dent to carry back the empty gas tank and proceeded to the faculty. She took the empty gas tank and lob it at the floor while scolding the laughing faculty members. The head teacher sensing the brewing fight led the two-faculty members to the principal’s office in order to settle the issue. The principal who happened to be a lady and upon looking at the male mentor started chiding him without inquiring as to what the root cause of the squabble. Hence, the brew worsened.

Speaking of management and supervisio­n, Deped is one of the most superfluou­s bureaucrat­ic department­s of the government. Meaning one cannot do away with red tape. A teacher’s squabble before it gets to the superinten­dent has to pass first to the head teacher, assistant principal, principal, supervisor, chief division officer and assistant superinten­dent. Similar to squabbles are the project of teachers like innovation and research project for promotion purposes or simply if a teacher wants to introduce developmen­ts, it needed to pass from one office to another.

This column at one point will also write something about management and supervisio­n from the point of the administra­tor and the one being supervised or administer­ed. Control and supervisio­n is one test to determine the culpabilit­y of public officers. What makes a good or bad school supervisor or manager will be embraced.

Human nature prescribes one to be biased as seen in our story when the principal castigated the male mentor without investigat­ing first. Not only principals, but even teachers in the classroom. Naturally a teacher is inclined to favor a good-looking student both in physical and behavioral over that of a hostile unattracti­ve student. Even in workplaces, one who is good looking and even good in

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