| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of the study was to investigate supervision and teachers' performance in selected secondary schools in Mukono District.
A cross sectional survey design was adopted for this study and both qualitative and quantitative methods were used to analyse the data using tables and figures.
The objectives of the study were to examine the types of supervision used; examine the objectives of supervision; determine teachers' performance and establish the relationship between supervision and teachers' performance in selected secondary schools in Mukono district.
A sample of 14 secondary schools with Universal Secondary Education was used for the study.
201 respondents including Head Teachers, Deputy Head Teachers, and Directors of studies,
Heads of Departments, Class teachers and subject teachers were selected to answer the Questionnaires. One District Inspector of schools was also included in the study. For the District Inspector of schools an interview guide was used to get the necessary information. Frequencies and descriptive statistics were used to show the distribution of the responses from the different respondents.
The major findings of the study were as follows;
A number of supervisions are used, different types of objectives are fronted, teacher performance was good and the relationship between supervision and teacher performance was significant as far as planning and instruction are concerned, while insignificant as far as students' assessment was concerned.
The most commonly used type of supervision in selected secondary schools in Mukono District was clinical. The majority of the objectives pointed towards teacher performance. Teacher performance as far as planning; instruction and student assessment are concerned was good, the relationship between supervision and teachers' performance was found to be positive as far as planning and instruction are concerned, while negative as far as students' assessment was concerned.
The recommendations were as follows;
I) The school administrators should intensify supervision in their respective schools in order to improve on planning, instruction and students assessment in order to improve teachers' performance.
2) Supervisors should encourage collegial supervision in schools to enhance teacher performance.
3) School administrators should enhance a positive relationship between supervision and teacher performance to have maximum performance.
4) The Ministry of Education and Sports should increase the officials of the inspectorate section in order to match with the increasing number of schools for effective supervision. | en_US |
