TEACHER ATTITUDE AND MENTORING IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN IMO STATE

OKE IFEOMA EBUNOLUWA

TEACHER ATTITUDE AND MENTORING IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN IMO STATE

OKE IFEOMA EBUNOLUWA

Abstract

The study investigated the attitude of teachers towards mentoring in Public secondary schools in Imo State. The descriptive survey design was adopted by the study. One research question guided the study and one hypothesis was tested. The population of the study consisted of all the Public Secondary Schools in Imo State. There were two hundred and eighty three[283] in number. The respondents were all the 283 principle and 10,378 teachers, giving a total of 10,661 respondents. The sample size of the respondents was 400 (72 principles and 328 teachers). The instrument for the study was a questionnaire which was validated and tested for reliability with Cronbach Alpha, a reliability index of 0.71 was obtained. Mean and standard deviation was used to answer the research question. The study revealed that theattitude of teachers towards mentoring is quite discouraging. It was therefore recommended among others that there should be more awareness created by the administrators on the need for teachers to put up right attitudes towards mentoring to enhance mentoring programs in these schools.

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