PRINCIPALS’ INSTRUCTIONAL SUPERVISION STRATEGIES AND TEACHERS’ JOB PERFORMANCE IN PUBLIC SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN RIVERS STATE

The study investigated principals’ instructional supervision strategies and teachers’ job performance in public senior secondary schools in Rivers-State. Three research questions and three corresponding null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The study adopted a correlational research design. The population of this study consisted of 302 Principals and 6557 teachers’ totaling 6,859 in the 302 public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. The sample for this study was 343 respondents; comprising of 206 teachers’ and 137 principals. The sample was determined using 5% of the total population of the study. To achieve this, simple random sampling technique was used to select 30 schools representing 10% of the total population of (302) schools in Rivers State. However, out of 343 copies of the instrument distributed, 289 were correctly filled and returned which represented 84.2 % return rate of the instrument distributed and used for data analysis. The scores of the two sets of instruments were correlated using Pearson product moment correlation to determine the reliability index of 0.75 and 0.83 respectively which showed that the instruments were reliable and adopted for the study. The Pearson Product Moment Correlation Statistics was used to answer the research questions and test the formulated null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The result of the study indicated that there is a moderate relationship between principals’ regular inspection of lesson plans and teachers’ job performance in public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. It concluded that in order to ensure effective and efficient performance, principals and instructors should be deeply devoted to their duties. Principals’ instructional supervision tactics will go a long way toward helping them achieve the desired outcome in their administration. It was recommended among others that principals should employ regular inspection of lesson plans to enhance teacher’s effectiveness in secondary schools.