SCHOOL SUPERVISION AND INSPECTION IN AN ERA OF DIGITALIZATION

Abstract

School supervision occupies the central role in the educational system. It is needed to improve teaching and learning activities and the entire atmosphere of the school. Inspection as a twin concept is also used to assess, examine, criticize and evaluate the teachers and school programmes in order to get things done in accordance with strict rules. Succinctly, the current state of the society where internet and other digital devices are used to perform many tasks, has significantly affected school supervision and inspection. In fact, the entire educational sector is undergoing changes, since, the emergence of digital technology. For instance, during the COVID-19 period, many school activities, including supervision and inspection were carried out via internet and other information technologies. This is currently impacting on school supervision and inspection in the face of educational development. Teachers in classrooms are no longer totally clinging to traditional way of delivering instruction, but, have embraced the application of digital devices for effective teaching-learning activity due to current trend. Nowadays, an effective educational system may not be unconnected with a well programmed and articulated digitally- driven school supervision and inspection. Therefore this paper spotlights school supervision and inspection; technologies employed, challenges, implementation, benefits challenges, and recommendations for way forward and its implication to the society in an era of digitalization.