Resources Availability And Teacher’s Productivity In Secondary School
[A CASE STUDY OF ILORIN EAST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, KWARA STATE]

 According to the recommendations of the Nigerian educational research commission (2008) in order to achieve good academic quality, the following factors deserve adequate attention” The training of the necessary cadres of teaches with adequate knowledge of what to teach and of the methodology that is most effective, followed by periods of practical experience internship during which their motivation and commitment are enhanced and they are assured of good conditions of work, regular opportunities for retaining, professional up grading and job satisfaction”.
Although inadequacy of resources is a prevalent occurrence in both public and private secondary schools, the level of teacher productivity is relatively high in private schools than that or their counterparts in public secondary school (Akinpelu, 2008).
    This is because resources are relatively more available in private schools than in public schools. This can be traced to the fact that private schools enjoy private/individual participation in the provision of finance for acquiring necessary resources for the system while the public schools are limited to the government as their only sources of finances.
    Therefore, the main preoccupation of this research work is to make findings on the impacts of the availability of resources on the productivity of teachers in Ilorin East local government of Kwara State in comparison between public and private secondary school.
Statement of the Problem
    The major concern of this study is to evaluate the disparity in the availability of resources to public and private secondary schools in Ilorin East Local Government and its influence on teachers’ productivity.
    The issue of low productivity of secondary school teachers are reflected in ineffectiveness of task performance results form the following
•    Inadequacy of resources available to teachers
•    In appropriate allocation of the available resources in school to teacher                 
•    Mismanagement of existing resources in the schools
•    Lack of sound application knowledge in the utilization of some of the resources available to the teachers.
•    Some of the resources available to teachers do not have much relevance to the context of instruction to be passed on to the students.


Purpose of the Study    
    The purpose of this study is to examine the educational resources available to secondary schools in terms of their allocations to teachers, adequacy and impact on teacher productivity.
    It also aims at indentifying the resources needs of teachers in secondary schools and the importance of their adequacy and quality in aiding teachers in attaining the highest possible level of productivity.
    Finally, it will examine the level of significance of the available resources on the teacher’s productivity in a comparisons between private and public secondary schools in Ilorin East Local Government.
Research Questions
    This research is aimed at obtaining answers to the following questions:
1.    To what extents do teachers in secondary school needs educational resources?
2.    What impact do these resources have on teachers’ productivity/
3.    To what extent are these resources provided to the teachers?
4.    Are the resources made available to teacher of relevance to the instruction to be passed on the students?   
Research Hypotheses
Main Hypothesis
H0:    There is no significant relationship between resource availability and teacher productivity
H01:    There is no significant relationship between human resources availability and teacher productivity
H02:    There is no significant relationship between material resources availability and teacher productivity
H03:    there is no significant relationship between financial resources availability and teacher productivity