Perception of teachers and adminstrators on effectiveness of supervision in basic schools in Krach district of Ghana

Abstract

This study "Perception of Teachers' and Administrators on the effectiveness of Supervision in basic school in Krachi District of Ghana" attempts to grapple with one of the crucial problems facing educational management in Ghana. Since 1987, Ghana has embarked on transformation of her educational system at the pre-university level to make it efficient and effective. Elaborate programmes on supervision have been put in place to achieve the desired objectives. But some reports indicate that there appears to be no improvement in the quality of the teaching and learning in Basic School in krachi District. The main objective of the study is to find out the extent to which effective supervision existed in basic schools in Krachi District. The study is a survey in narure and it covered five Out of seven circuits in Krachi District. A sample of one hundred and seventy six (176) respondents made up of ( 127) classroom teachers and forty-nine administrators drawn from thlrty-six (36) Basic Schools in the 1997/98 school year were used to analysed the information collected. The major finding was that supervision was inadequate and ineffective. This confirms most local news paper reports on the views of some educationists especially Dolphyne (1998) that the poor performance of pupils in these Basic Schools was due mostly to lack of effective supervision.