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Principals’ Administrative Skills and Teachers’ Productivity in Public Senior Secondary Schools Alimosho Local Government, Lagos State Nigeria

2023; Volume: 3; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.53103/cjess.v3i4.154

2816-2587

African Education and Politics

The degree to which secondary schools will achieve their aims and objectives depends on how well teachers are able to execute their teaching-learning activities. This is true since it is the teacher's responsibility to carry out pedagogical tasks and ensure that learning objectives are met. Secondary school teachers are expected to prepare lesson plans, deliver lessons using the best teaching techniques, maintain classroom order and manage students during lessons, assess students' progress throughout lessons, and, at the end of the term, give the school, students, and their parents or guardians accurate and insightful feedback on how well the students performed. Therefore, this study assessed principal’s administrative skills and teachers’ productivity in public senior secondary schools in Alimosho local government of Lagos State, Nigeria. A survey research design was adopted. Three hundred and three (303) respondents were estimated and participated in this study. All questionnaires were distributed, adequately filled and used in the analysis. Multi-stage sampling technique was employed for the select sample size from the population of the study. The information collected from the respondents were sorted, coded, and entered in data sheet created in the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Descriptive statistics of frequency distribution mean and standard deviation was used to analyze the data and provide answers to the research questions. The study showed that the level of teachers’ productivity is good, encouraging and satisfactory; majority of the principals mostly use supervisory skills (Mean = 19.561 (78.2%), SD = 2.874), followed by communication skills (Mean = 22.878 (76.3%), SD = 3.608), and motivational skills (Mean = 18.823 (75.3%), SD = 3.772), a significant relationship was found between the principals’ administrative skills and productivity of teachers (r = .120, p = .036). The study concluded that principal’s administrative skills influence teachers’ productivity in the areas of teaching methods, teachers’ characteristics and students’ evaluation in public senior secondary schools. The study recommended that principals should actively seek opportunities to enhance their administrative skills through professional development programs, workshops, and networking with other educational leaders.