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Professional Development Programmes And Teachers’ Effectiveness
[A CASE STUDY OF ILORIN-WEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA SECONDARY SCHOOLS, KWARA STATE]
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Finally, if teachers are behind time and absolute in their area of disciplines their effectiveness become questionable. Hence, Teachers performance can be said to be the ability of the teachers to effectively and efficiently carry out the following duties for lesson.
• Adequate preparations for lesson
• Teachers the number of periods allocated on the timetable regularly and punctually
• Keep the teaching records
• Check and mark notes given to the students regularly
• Sets, marks, records, class assignments, test and examination script promptly.
• Sees to cleanliness of the classroom and its environment
• Properly invigilate both internal and external examination.
• Attends staff, P.T.A. and other meeting regularly, punctually and partake actively in them.
• Prepare the continuous assessment booklet and the class master sheet.
• Mark the attendance register daily and take note of the absentees.
• See to the welfare of every student in the class
• Carries out any other assignment given by the school authority.
Student Academic Performance in Secondary Schools
Academics performances of students has become issues of public discussion in Ilorin west local Government and Nigerian in general, parents and guidance are not happily when West African senior school certificate Examination and National examination council result is release. Student outcome do not match the government and parents investment. All the stakeholders and agent in education sector are worried about the system turning out a product with poor results Ogunsaju (2004) state that the academics standard in all Nigeria education in situation has fallen considerably below society expectations .Ejili(2002) noted that there is an increasing demand for good education but its standard seems to be declined and focused might not have the pre-requisite learning behavior because they never know what to do.
If they are a pathetic, uncommitted, uninspired, lazy, unmotivated, immoral, and anti- social, the whole Nation is doomed. If they are ignorant in their disciplines’ ant thus impact wrong information, they are not only useless but dangerous, therefore, the kind of teachers trained and posted to school may as well determines what the next generation will produce academically. Ekwesili (2006) institutionalized the private public partnership (PPP) and school based management committee (SBMC) to manage Secondary education and to promote effectiveness since students success depend largely on the amount of learning that takes place in the class room and other related. “How effective and efficient the teacher performs in schoolâ€. Ijaiya (1998) concurred and opined that in proving the quality of the teaching force in school is seen as the key to raising student achievement. Similarly Aduwa (2004) Affirmed that a student is home environment, their cognitive abilities, self – esteem, self-concept, study habits and motivation affect their academic success. Oshodi (1991) Examine resource utilization and student academic performance in Kwara State Secondary school using a questionnaire, spearman rank correlation coefficient was used to determine the most influential factor on student’s academic performance. He found that the quantity of teacher was the most important determinant of student’s academic performance in secondary schools.
Bello (2004) List some factors that affects the student academic performance in secondary school, such as lack of learning and teaching materials and parental attitude social economic background of the parent, teachers quality, emotional problems physical and health factors which could not avoided.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]ABSTRACTThe teachers are the key actors in the effectiveness of secondary school education. It is therefore important to ensure that they perform their roles as expected towards the achievement of educational goals and objectives. Descriptive research design was adopted for this study. There are 702 teachers working in public secondary schools in Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara State shall be the target population of this study. 310 teachers was randomly selected out of 702 teachers i ... Continue reading---
TABLE OF CONTENTS - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]TABLE OF CONTENTSTitle page CertificationDedicationAcknowledgmentsAbstract Table of contents CHAPTER ONEINTRODUCTIONBackground to the Study Statement of the ProblemPurpose of the Study Research QuestionsResearch Hypotheses Significance of the Study Scope of the Study Operational Definition of TermsCHAPTER TWOREVIEW OF RELATED LITERATUREConcept of professional development programmesNeed for Professional Development of Teachers Importance of professional development programmes Concept of teacher ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 3 ]Statement of the Problem Studies found challenges ahead teachers’ professional development and their effectiveness at school. Osho (2012) stresses that poor remunerations of teachers affect their professional development leading to the abandonment of their profession, no meaningful intellectual programme on the professional development of teachers with the various wars, political crises around the world, the new cultures of gay, lesbianism, and globalization as a form of western mod ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER THREE - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]CHAPTER THREERESEARCH METHODOLOGYThe aim of this research work is to investigate in details the relationship between professional development programmes and teachers' effectiveness in secondary schools in Ilorin-west LGA. Kwara State. This chapter deals with the steps that were used in carrying out this study. The methodology is discussed under the following sub-headings;• Research Design• Population, Sample and Sampling Techniques• Instrumentation• ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FOUR - [ Total Page(s): 6 ]Table 7 revealed that the p-value (0.000) is less than the level of significance of 0.05. Since the p-value is less than the level of significance, the hypothesis which states that there is no significant relationship between attendance of workshops and teachers’ effectiveness in Ilorin-west Local Government Area secondary schools, Kwara state is therefore rejected. Hence there is significant relationship between attendance of workshops and teachers’ effectiveness in Ilorin-west Lo ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FIVE - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]CHAPTER FIVESUMMARY OF FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONSIntroductionThis chapter deals with the summary of findings, conclusions and recommendation arising from the analysis of the data collected from the responses.Summary of FindingsThe following are the summary of findings1. There is significant relationship between staff training and secondary school teachers’ effectiveness in Ilorin-west LGA, Kwara state.2. There is significant relationship between attendance of hi ... Continue reading---
REFRENCES - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]REFERENCESAbdul, Z.O. (2002). Searching for Excellence in Teacher Education in Nigeria College of Education. Ilorin Journal of Arts and Social Sciences (1), AAA3 (1), 256-262.Abdulkareem, A.Y. (1997). Teacher Educators’ Perception of Ideal Teachers. International Journal of Educational Management 2 (1), 56-58.Adebayo, A.O. (2003). Effectiveness Management of Teachers in Secondary Schools. Ilorin. Unpublished PGDE Project Ondo State University. Ado Ekiti.Adepoju, T.L (1999). The Gap betwee ... Continue reading---
