An analysis of the adoptability of artistic supervision model at public primary schools

The purpose of this research is to determine the adoptability of Artistic Supervision model in public primary schools starting from supervisors? and teachers? points of views.The populatian of the research covers branch and classroom teachers (N=1115) working in Bolu Public Primary Education Schools and the education supervisors (N=706) chosen by Random Sampling Method in 17 provinces with Bolu. The sub-population of the research covers classroom and branch teachers (N=540) working in 14 Public Edication Schools in Bolu province and the education supervisors (N=706) working in 17 provinces.Descriptive model is used in the research. As a data colection mean, artistic supervision scale developed by the researchers, consisted of 58 items and 4 sub. dimensions was used.The data, obtained from the research, are analysed by using of SPSS 18.00 package. Percentage, frequence, arithmetic average, standard deviation, one way anova methods are used for the analysis of the data depending upon sub-problems and t-test for independent groups ( unrelated sampling ). Besides, in order to determine the source of difference within the variance analysis results, Scheffe test from Post Hoc Tests and Tamhane T2 Test are used.As a result of the research, regarding adoptability of artistic supervision model in public primary schools, classroom teachers revealed their opinions as ?exactly?, in field teachers as ?exactly? and supervisors as ?substantially?.There is no significant difference amang the opinions of classroom and in branch teachers in all subdimensions and subtotal of the scale, however, there are significant differences between teachers and supervisors regarding adoptability of artistic supervision model in public primary schools.Regarding adoptability of artistic supervision model in public primary schools, there is significant difference about the opinions of the teachers at the public primary schools considering their genders and educational background. Yet, there is no significant difference within seniority variance. Significant differences in subdimension of artistic supervision philosophy considering gender variance and in the subtotal of the scale considering educational background variance are found during the survey.Considering all personal variances, opinions of supervisors show significant difference regarding adoptability of artistic supervision model. The research shows significant difference considering gender variance and subdimension of educational expertise and seniority variance according to philosopy of artistic supervision in subtotal of the scale.According to the research results; it is suggested that the supervisors should have an ability to express themselves by using their language effectively in their assessments, be experts about what they are supervising, develop healthy relations and focus on the positive behaviours of the teachers during the evaluation.Key Words: Teacher, Education supervisors, Artistic supervision model, Adoption