Educational Supervision In The Implementation Of Graduate Quality-Based Management In The Era Of The Covid-19 Pandemic

This article discusses the phenomenon that arises and becomes a factor inhibiting various efforts, including inadequate educational processes, educational outputs or products that have not reached standards, management of educational institutional organizations that have not realized achievement, conventional leadership that tends to have not met professional aspects, and the understanding of institutional commitments and school culture that has not been comprehensively built. The main problem facing schools in general is related to the quality management of education which includes 8 National Standards of Education. In addition, efforts to implement TQM in Education (TQME) always have the expectation of student achievement both academic and non-academic. In this case the role of a leader of an educational institution is very decisive towards improving the quality of education of an institution. One of them is the existence of strict supervision and control of the implementation of policies carried out, especially during the covid-19 pandemic like this. The method used in the discussion of this article is to use qualitative analysis of research reports that have been done in several schools in the city of Medan. With the results of the analysis that states that the principal is the main determinant in the implementation of graduate quality-based management because the principal has all access to make efforts in improving the quality of his school graduates. The supervision of the principal is key in any decision-making that has an impact in improving the quality of graduates