monitoring and supportive supervision
Monitoring and supportive supervision are integral to effective implementation of the preschool education programme. Monitoring is the process to check the progress of the programme by collecting and analysing the information about the programme. Supportive supervision, the analysis of the information collected during monitoring, facilitates better management of the preschool, by guiding and enabling the staff to perform their roles and responsibilities optimally. Monitoring and supportive supervision is not a one-time activity, instead it should also be carried out on an on-going basis and constructive feedback must be provided to the staff in a timely manner. The focus of monitoring and supervision should not be on fault-finding of individuals and reporting on them. Rather, the focus must be on building the system to be able to achieve the goals of preschool education, assessing if there are any challenges/ problems in the process, identifying the root causes of the problem, prioritising the aspects to be addressed, finding solutions and implementing them to ensure that children are safe and develop optimally and participate in a good quality preschool programme.