The Practices and Challenges of Internal School Supervision: The Case in East Wollega Secondary Schools
The main objectives of this study was to look in to the practices, challenges and prospective of internal school supervision in secondary schools of East Wollega Zone. A descriptive survey research method was used to enable to assess the practices without any intervention. A multistage sampling te...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Ishik University
2019-03-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Social Sciences & Educational Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://ijsses.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/The-Practices-and-Challenges-of-Internal-School-Supervision.pdf |
| Summary: | The main objectives of this study was to look in to the practices, challenges and prospective of
internal school supervision in secondary schools of East Wollega Zone. A descriptive survey research
method was used to enable to assess the practices without any intervention. A multistage sampling technique
was employed as selection of respondents was made at three stages. From all of the Woredas Secondary
Schools, a total of ten (10) secondary schools were selected by availability sampling. Then from each ten (10)
sample schools 64(100%) education leaders (10 school principals, 10 deputy school principals,4 secondary
school supervisors and forty (40) department head teachers) were selected by available sampling techniques.
Questionnaire, interview and document analysis were used as data gathering instruments. In addition, the
researcher consulted relevant reference books; internet sources and supervision manuals to support the
findings of the study and document analysis. Data was using mean score and t-test whereby the qualitative
data was narrated to triangulate the qualitative data. The finding of the study revealed that internal
supervisors were not doing what they have to do as they are overloaded by teaching assignment. Moreover,
they were not doing the work of school community relation as they were having no time to liaison between
school and community. On top of these the finding also revealed that the major challenges for internal
supervisors were: teaching burden on supervisors, internal supervisors were few in number, lack of
instructional support skills on supervisor side, attitude of both supervisors and supervises as well as less
attention given to school based supervision. Therefore, it can be said the actual practices of school based
supervision was not as per the intension. Hence, the education offices at various levels need to give due
attention for enhance the skills of internal supervisors through rigorous pre- and in-service training
program. It is also better to reduce the teaching load of internal supervisors so that they can get time to
support teachers in the classroom as per the intention to have school based supervision |
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| ISSN: | 2409-1294 2520-0968 |