The Competency Development Model of Supervisors under the Jurisdiction of Primary Education in the Northeastern Region

Abstract

The main purpose of this research was to develop a model on competency development of
supervisors under the jurisdiction of primary education in the northeastern region. The research
method was divided into four steps to study: (1) the supervisors’ competency by means of
document analysis and a semi-structured interview. The participants for interview consisted of
administrators and stakeholders who worked in primary education schools, (2) the need
assessment; priority need index of supervisors’ competency, by identifying the difference between
the current state of demand and the current state, using prioritizing the need of a PIN value with
0.20 or higher, (3) a model construction on competency development of supervisors by means of
group discussion and confirmation by qualified panelists, and (4) the suitability evaluation of a
model by experts, evaluate the feasibility and utility of the model by supervisors. The results of the

research revealed ten competencies of supervisors, namely achievement motivation, information
communication technology, educational development research , continuous development, analysis
and synthesis, vision, academic leadership, communication and motivation, quality assurance in
education, teamwork, and the model which was called “10’s Competency of supervisor Model”
consisted of five components : 1) concepts and principle, 2) objectives, 3) procedures included
three development approaches, namely real life lessons learning, other people learning and
personnel programed learning, 4) the model evaluation based on the assessment of the model
suitability, feasibility, and utility, and 5) conditions of success depended on the fact that the
supervisor should assess and use the approaches suggested in the model, and the related
organizations should adopt this model as policy and use it as means for supervisor development.