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The report is designed to asses “the effect of school heads‟ supervision upon pupils
academic performance”. The study was carried in accordance with research
objectives to determine challenges facing head teachers in supervising academic
affairs. And the assessment of primary school internal stakeholders‟ perception on the
school administrative system. Several literature and documentary were reviewed to
support the study. Also different methods were employed to satisfy the requirements;
Questionnaire, interview, observation and documentary review were applied to obtain
information needed. The respondents were categorized into two groups the first group
involved those who were responsible to provide data through interview. While second
group included those participants who provided information by answering the
questions posted to them before being visited by the researcher.
This study therefore, sought to find strategies planned to monitor implementation of
academic programmes and to evaluate the effectiveness of those strategies, to
determine challenges facing supervisor of academic affairs and to assess how internal
stakeholders (teachers, pupils and parents) perceive the school administrative system.
Further more the study found that although the government pay attention on head
teachers performance there is a lot of problems that is facing them in their daily
activities such as inadequate finance, lunch pupils feeding and poor attendance of
pupil.
The District Educational Officer proposed that capitation grants should be revived at
a proper time to meet the school requirements. The school should be financed other
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wise educational programs and strategies may ended up theoretically planned but
practically fail more over, curriculum has irregular changes which affect its
implementation. At initial stage, stakeholders at the lower positions, teachers, who are
implementers, should be incorporated instead of being a top-down order. Normally
the planners are not implementers. The content is in the planned curriculum depends
much on teachers who are the industrial workers, transform raw materials who the,
pupils, into out put with high quality. |
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