PRINCIPALS SUPERVISORY ROLES AND TEACHERS’ JOB PERFORMANCE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ABAKALIKI EDUCATION ZONE OF EBONYI STATE

Abstract

This study investigated Principals Supervisory Roles and Teachers’ Job Performance in Secondary Schools in Abakaliki Education Zone of Ebonyi State. Four purposes and research questions guided the study. The population of the study comprised 1915 teachers and principals in 77 public secondary schools in Abakaliki Education Zone of Ebonyi State. The sample of the study consists of 405 principals and teachers. The instrument for the Data collection was the researcher’s structured questionnaire, which was validated by three experts, in Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki. The reliability yielded 0.88 using Cronbach alpha procedure. Data collected were analyzed using mean (x), standard deviation (SD) with the aid of statistical package for SPSS. The results revealed that: principals’ supervisory role on classroom management, principals’ supervisory role on curriculum instruction, principals’ supervisory role on students discipline and principals supervisory role on records keeping to a high extent influenced teachers' job performance in secondary schools in Abakaliki Education Zone of Ebonyi State. Based on the findings, the study recommended that Government of Ebonyi State should provision the needed supervisory facilities for classroom management in order improve school system. Secondary Education Board should integrate technology devices for improving principals’ supervisory roles in secondary schools.This implies that supervisory functions of school principals in secondary school improve teachers performance in their classroom activities which directly influence students’ academic performance but when this supervisory function are neglected by school principals, the performance activities of school teachers would be deteriorated.