Principals’ School Management Strategies for Effective Teachers' Instructional Delivery in Public Senior Secondary Schools in Rivers State

Abstract

This study investigated principals’ school management strategies for effective teachers’ instructional delivery in public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted descriptive research design. The population of the study consist 6,893 teachers in all the public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. Multistage sampling technique was used to draw the sample size of 371 teachers from three senatorial zones in Rivers State. A self-designed questionnaire titled: school management strategies for teachers’ instructional delivery questionnaire was used for the study. The Cronbach Alpha method was used for the reliability of the instrument which yielded a reliability coefficient of 0.76 and 0.72 respectively. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while z-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of this study revealed that there is no significant difference between the mean scores of male and female teachers on the supervisory strategies and instruction leadership strategies for effective teacher instructional delivery in public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended that, principals in public senior secondary schools should strive to ensure that teachers adhere to general standards in instructional delivery as stated in the national policy and government should organize staff development programmes to train and motivate teachers for effective service delivery in line with the educational goals and objectives.