Principal’s supervisory practices and teachers’ performance in secondary schools Of south west shoa zone

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between principals’ supervisory practice and teachers’ performance. The researcher employed descriptive correlational design. The correlational design used to find the relationships of the two variables that is principals’ supervisory practice and teachers’ performance. At thirty items questionnaire was design based on 4-point linker’s scale was distributed. The sample size of the study was188 comprising of 15 principals, 4 CRC supervisor and 169 teachers obtained by using the Kreycies and Morgan (1970) table of determining sample size to obtain the primary data. Frequencies and percentages were calculated for descriptive statistics while Pearson’s correlation coefficient was used to measure the relationship between variables, using (SPSS version 25.0) the findings of the study indicated on principals’ supervisory practice with an overall mean2.61 (high) which indicated that principals of the secondary school perform their supervisory practice and the findings of the study on teachers’ performance indicated an overall mean of 3.20 (high) which imply that teachers perform their school responsibilities. Accordingly, the above result implies that improvement on principal supervisory practice will increase teachers’ performance. So, the researcher concluded that the principals should intensify more effort in their supervisory practice in term of inspecting student note-books, supporting teachers in their lesson, to improve teachers’ performance. The study also recommend that Government and education sector should organize periodic capacity development workshops for teachers of secondary schools on teachers ’performance in terms of how to prepare their scheme of work, preparation of lesson plan and lesson notes, various methods of lesson delivery which can help them to improve in their teachers’ performance as well as teaching and learning processes in secondary schools.