Supervision and school culture

Question of Interest/ Relevance: How can supervision impact school culture?
Supervision through administrators and/or supervisors plays a large role in help creating and shaping individual school cultures. "Culture makes almost all the difference and is at the heart of lifeworld of schools- the place where our values and commitments are stored, grow, and are protected (Sergiovanni, etc. page 331)”. Supervisors need to encourage teachers to be more effective in making their teaching coincide with the curriculum.
Supervisors need to promote clear expectations and social interactions with one another to teachers and students. People need to know what is expected of them, how they fit into the total scheme of things, what their responsibilities are, how they will be evaluated, and what their relationships with others will be. Schools need to provide opportunities for students and teachers to interact with others, this interaction helps people define and build up their own self-concepts and reduce the anxiety and fear they experience in the work environment.
A positive culture gives everything a person does more meaning and a clear objective. Teachers respond to work not only as a result of psychological needs but also as makers of meaning. Communities also play a major role in shaping the culture of a school by giving the school a foundation to work from. When all the external factors come together the highest level of culture can be achieved through artifacts, perspectives, values, and assumptions.