Metaphoric Perceptions of Private Schools Employee Teachers about Concepts of Supervision and Supervisor

The aim of this study is to determine the perceptions of private school employee teachers about the concepts of supervision and supervisor via metaphors. Within this context similarities and differences of the perceptions of private school employee teachers have been revealed; suggestions about review and reevaluation of the concepts supervision and supervisor have been presented on a scientific basis. This study, conducted with the pattern of phenomenology a qualitative research design, has a working group determined with snowball sampling one of purposeful sampling methods and consisted of 100 teachers working in private schools in cities Sakarya and Kocaeli in 2015-2016 academic year. Data has been collected with a semi-structured form consisting of expressions such as "Supervision is like... Because supervisor is like. Because..." Metaphors used by teachers and their reasons are analyzed with content analysis method. According to the results of the study; the concept of supervision has been expressed with 75 different metaphors while concept of supervisor has been expressed with 71 different metaphors. Metaphors for supervision have been gathered under 7 categories while metaphors of the concept supervisor have been gathered under 11 categories. Participants have perceived supervision mostly as correction and development and supervisor mostly as advisor. It's also determined that participants' perceptions of supervision and supervisor are generally positive.