Academic Supervision and Professional Performance of State High School Teachers

The purpose of this study is to describe the implementation of academic supervision and best practices in the implementation of academic supervision in Public High School, Sumatera Utara Province. Indonesia. Academic supervision is a set of activities designed to help teachers develop their ability to manage the learning process in the classroom. The results of this study indicate that in order to implement effective supervision, the supervisor must be able to choose the best practice to be applied. The academic supervision techniques implemented are individual supervision techniques and group supervision techniques. The individual supervision techniques implemented are: 1) classroom visits, 2) classroom observations, 3) individual meetings, 4) inter-classroom visits and 5) self-assessment. Group techniques are implemented by involving a number of teachers in solving problems, talking and discussing together with the supervisors. The implementation of academic supervision at Public High School, includes (1) the planning stage with activities to prepare a schedule for the implementation of supervision, an evaluation program, a follow-up program for the results of the evaluation of supervision, the preparation of administrative documents, (2) the implementation stage, (3) the evaluation stage of the results of supervision, (4) the follow-up stage.