Academic Supervision By School Principal To Maintain School Excellency During Covid-19 Pandemic in Junior High School 5 Yogyakarta

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic situation in Indonesia is dynamic, and the changes occurred in any time. The learning process during this pandemic includes online distance learning and face-to-face learning at school, depends on the virus transmission rate. This affects the teaching-learning quality. The problems are related on lack ability for using ICT, gadget unavailability, lack of internet connection, and decreasing social interaction. Furthermore, school principal should supervise their teachers to maintain school excellency during the pandemic, including in Junior High School 5 Yogyakarta, the historical-traditional excellent school. This research purposes are: 1) to describe teaching-learning process during Covid-19 pandemic; 2) to describe academic supervision by school principal to maintain school excellency during Covid-19 pandemic; 3) to construct a new concept of academic supervision to maintain school excellency, especially during the crisis of Covid-19 pandemic. The research method used in this research is qualitative approach. The data collection methods aremeth semi-structured interview, observation, and document analysis. The data analysis used in this research is interactive model from Miles, Huberman and Saldana: data collection, data condensation, data display, and conclusion drawing or verification. The results show that: 1) teaching-learning process is conducted online through media Google Suite (Workspace) modified for the school. The teachers conduct teaching-learning by Google Meet, Google Classroom, Zoom, and WhatsApp; 2) academic supervision by school principal is conducted by visiting the class, sometime without telling the teachers previously, thus it is natural; then organizing regular meeting with teachers, and developing and providing the team ICT/information-communication technology; 3) the new constructed academic supervision is a combination of academic supervision and performance appraisal or assessment conducted simultaneously. Academic supervision is directed to solve teacher problems on teaching-learning, while performance assessment it to assess or evaluate the actual job performance, especially on teaching-learning