Supervision of vocational high school education in Padang City

Supervision plays an important role in efforts to deal with the dynamics and demands of teacher competence. For this reason, this study aims to examine the supervision of Vocational High Schools (SMK) in the city of Padang, Sumatera Barat, Indonesia. Descriptive qualitative method is used in this study with the Mile and Huberman model which has the stages of collection, reduction, display and verification. Data were obtained through document analysis and interviews with the Head of the SMK Development Division and a SMK supervisor in the city of Padang. The results of the study found that the recruitment of supervisors had not fully followed the recommendations of [Lembaga Pengembangan dan Pemberdayaan Kepala Sekolah dan Pengawas Sekolah = The Institute for the Development and Empowerment of School Principals and School Supervisors] LPPKSPS. Then the supervisory ratio that is over is 1/70 teachers, where most of the scientific fields are ambivalent to supervisees. The implementation of supervision is still conventional for 37.5 hours/week/supervisor with monitoring that is not yet comprehensive. So that the implementation of this supervision can be concluded that it is not optimal and needs to be optimized. Optimization can be with legal certainty, regulation and transparency as well as the use of appropriate technology. Finally, this effort is expected to have implications for the optimum vocational school supervision system in Padang City.

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