Opinions of Social Studies Teachers And Primary School Teachers Regarding Educational Supervisors’s Classroom Supervision Roles

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to determine the views of social studies teachers and primary school teachers about the classroom supervision roles of educational supervisors. Case study method is used as the qualitative research method in this research. The study group of the research consists of 31 social studies teachers and primary school teachers. Data were collected with a semi-structured interview form. The data were analysed with the descriptive analysis technique. The results of the research are as follows: The majority of the participants; (a) has a positive impression about the resumption of the practice of course supervision byeducational supervisors, (b) they have not had the experience of course supervision carried out by educational supervisors before, but they want to experience this experience, (c) they want educational supervisors to be in the forefront of their role of guidance rather than supervision, (d) they do not want to be an educational supervisors. In addition, those who have both experience and no experience and those who have positive and negative views on the educational supervisorship are of the opinion that there are ongoing problems in the educational supervisorship system.