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Parents Teachers Association And Secondary School Adminisration
[A CASE STUDY OF KWARA STATE, NIGERIA.]
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Background of the Study
For the school to achieve its goals, meets the needs of students and fulfill the expectation of parents, there should be good linkage between the teachers and parents. Parents are experienced people who are conversant with child psychology and development. They, therefore, know the needs of their children at difference stages of development. In view of this, the parents are in a better position to give useful advice to teachers when necessary. Individual parents could be invited to school for discussion on their children’s welfare. The principal with the assistance of the staff point at the children weakness, and give suggestions for improvement. The Parents Teachers Association (PTA) is a forum for teachers and parents to meet and discuss issues relating to the welfare of the parents and teachers. Through the Parents Teachers Association (PTA) meeting. Parents could be educated or enlightened on the discipline and causes of student’s delinquency. Through this, the parents will have an insight into the causes of the students’ problems and know more effective ways of dealing with such problems. They will also know the danger associated with ineffective discipline. The organization of Parents Teachers Association (PTA) in most schools raises a number of questions as to:
(1) Whether the PTA provide fund for school?
(2) Without the PTA, can the school not raise funds?
(3) How much has the PTA helped in the discipline of students in schools?
Really, the PTA provides funds for the school by way of levy or donation.
Secondly, the school cannot raise levy without the PTA. This is because PTA represents the community in which the school is built.
According to Cotton and Wikelund (2001), many benefits are accrued for the school and for parents themselves when parents become involved in their children’s school activities. They maintained that, school personnel benefit from the improved rapport that generally accompanies increased parents involvement.
This rapport is often expressed in parents’ increased willingness to support school with their labour and resources during fund-raising activities or special projects. Beside, Henderson (1987). Hicks and Sammons (1992) AND Hillman and Mortimore (1995) had showed in their various studies that parental presence in the school activities and participation in committees’ events and their activities all had positive effects on achievement.
Adewuyi (2002), also submitted that active parent involvement and positive home-school-community relations have been shown to positively influence effective schooling and students’ achievement .
Ajayi (1999) also posited that, effective administration of schools could be hampered where the PTA is not performing its roles as expected. Also, Ajayi (2007) posited that, the school and the community are interdependent and interrelated and for the relationship between them to be meaningful, worthwhile and productive, they must be willing to assist each other to achieve their respective goals in atmosphere of love, mutual trust and cooperation.
Abiola A.O. (1967), since a child’s welfare and all round developments are concerns of a parents that is why parents are giving a role in the administrative of secondary school. This means that the Parents Teachers Association is interested in the cooperation of the school system.
Parents responsibilities as stakeholders in secondary schools lies in motivation towards ensuring the students attend schools; is appropriately dressed, has a healthy lifestyle, so that he /she can learn, ensuring that the student does his/her home-work, supporting school’s sanctions against the student in case of misbehavior, ensuring that the student receives treatment where necessary.
Teachers are blamed for their inefficiency in classroom. Students are blamed for their care free attitude, non- compliance to school rules and regulations and poor reading culture. School principals are blamed for inadequate supervision, government on inadequate funding and parents on poor motivation of their children and also on their lukewarm attitude towards their children education. Most parents are too busy running after wealth at the expense of good up-bring of their children, and school’s are blamed for promoting unwanted and ungodly behavior like examination malpractices and several other inadequacies.
Parents Teachers Association and Secondary School Administration in Kwara State of Nigeria can only play their role properly within the framework of effective school management and administration. Effective administration of secondary school in Kwara State of Nigeria may only be attempted through a complete democratization of the administrative machinery that involves not only the education experts in the State Board of Education, Local Government Education Authority, principals of school but also teachers and parents who have a common view about the students welfare. In the past, effective school administration was conceptualized in terms of expert’s management at micro level and the principals of the schools. Parents and teachers were to help the school. Hence, many secondary schools have their signs of reading “Parents may go beyond the pointâ€. As time went on, they will realized that for any secondary school to be able to meets her stated objectives that administration should not only be concentrated in the hands of experts but also those directly concerned about the students which are the parents and teachers.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]ABSTRACTThe study investigates the Parents Teachers Association and Secondary School Administration in Kwara State, Nigeria. Many factors give rise to the formation of Parents Teachers Association (PTA) in Public Secondary Schools in Kwara State. Lacks of school facilities; shortage of manpower, as a result of increase in population of students and inadequate provision of school materials for students necessitate the formation of Parents Teachers Association.Self –designed questionnaires ... Continue reading---
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TABLE OF CONTENTS - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]TABLE OF CONTENTSTitle Page Certification Dedication Acknowledgement Abstract Table of Contents CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTIONBackground of the Study Statement of the Problem Purpose of the Study Research Questions Significance of the Study Scope of the Study Definition of Terms CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATUREReview of Related Literature Theoretical background of the Study The Role ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER TWO - [ Total Page(s): 6 ]Gerald (1977) stressed that the only way of resolving majority of the problems of the school is by fund raising and the PTA is a legalized body that can approve the collection of PTA in secondary schools.In some other situation, the main organ of Parents Teachers Association is the principal or the headmaster with a close associatesl.e the staff members. In some other situation, students and parents are also encouraged to take active part in meetings.There is normally no fixed time and date for ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER THREE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]Research Instrument(S)The basic instruments used to collect data in this study were questionnaires. The questionnaires were in two folds; (1) the students’ perceptive on the Parents Teachers Association and Secondary School Administration in Oyun Local Government Area of Kwara State and (2) the teachers’ perceptive on the Parents Teachers Association and Secondary School Administration in Oyun Local Government Area of Kwara State.Validity and Reliability of the Instrument(S)Val ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FOUR - [ Total Page(s): 6 ]Discussion of Results This section gives detailed explanations on the various findings discovered from the research questions. For instance, the findings on the research question one which states that what the extent of parents’ involvement is in the academic process of students revealed that parents are moderately involve in the academic process of students. The finding of the study is similar to that of Obasi&Asodike (2007) who pointed out that since there is no government financial pre ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FIVE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]Recommendations From the findings and conclusion of this study, the following recommendations were made:1. Appointments of PTA should be from among people of integrity and competence with a minimum requirement of secondary education. 2. The PTA should be moderate in administrative processes in order to facilitate effective teaching and learning. 3. The ministry of education in Nigeria should formulate relevant policies to enable school PTA to be more useful in management. ... Continue reading---
REFRENCES - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]REFERENCESAdams N. “Secondary School Management today†London. Wellbourne Sydney, Auckland Johannesburg, Hutchinson Ltd, Clando Place.Abiola A.O. (1967), “The Place of PTA as a Cooperating body in the School Systemâ€. Teacher Forum Vol 6.Abdulkareem A.Y (1988). “The Teacher as a Manager, Ilorin Journal of Education. Ilorin-Nigeria: Haytee Publishers and Co[Adeyemo P.A. (1995): “Principles and Practice of Educationâ€, Ile-Ife: University of Ife Press. ... Continue reading---
