SAINT MIENPAMO (REPORTS)
AN
ADDRESS BY THE DIRECTOR AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR
EDUCATIONAL PLANNING AND ADMINISTRATION (NIEPA), NIGERIA, ONDO, ONDO STATE, DR.
PETER KOLAWOLE OJEDELE ON THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE WORKSHOP ON
RESPONSIBILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN BASIC SCHOOL MANAGEMENT FOR HEADTEACHERS
AND PRINCIPALS OF PRIMARY AND JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL SUPERVISION,
MONITORING AND EVALUATION FOR SUBEB AND LGA OFFICIALS HELD AT EMMANUEL PLACE,
YENAGOA ON MONDAY 3RD SEPTEMBER, 2012
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The
Nigerian Educational system is in a state of confusion and disarray as a result
of inconsistencies, non-implementation of educational policies, corruption and
corrupt practices perpetrated by the stakeholders. There has been a clarion
call by all and sundry to re-examine and appraise the Nigerian Educational
system in line with current trends.
In
view of these challenges, Nigeria has attempted to reform their basic
management and school supervision services to improve educational quality. This
desire for reform is inspired by disappointment with the effectiveness of
school management and supervision and by the recent trend towards more school
autonomy. Indeed, the ability of schools to use their greater freedom
effectively will depend to a large extent on the support services on which they
can rely, while supervision may be needed to guide them in their
decision-making and to monitor their use of resources.
There
has been a paradigm shift in recent times. The Federal and State Ministries of
Education have strengthened the inspectorate to make it functional. The focus
is now on whole school evaluation. The earliest form of supervision was
described as inspection. In the past, it was a common practice that once an
educator becomes a supervisor or director of instruction he was referred to as
inspector. The impression people have about supervision during this time was
that the supervisor was responsible for making judgment about the teacher and
not helping the teacher on how to teach in order to make the students learn
well.
The
supervisor’s recommendation to replace a teacher was carried out immediately.
The reports of such visits were used to determine the teachers’ promotion or
retention. There was no effort to improve the teachers’ knowledge or the teaching.
Supervision was introduced to improve the quality of teaching and learning.
Supervision
is tailored towards ensuring that the teacher follows the general guidelines as
provided in the curriculum. There are follow-up activities that should be directed
at the improvement of identified areas of teacher’s weakness. Supervision helps
the teachers in terms of self discovery particularly in the area of
improvisation and the use of modern teaching aids as a basis for improving
teaching strategies; supervisors help to introduce teachers to a variety of
audio and visual materials that help to facilitates good teaching.
In
either case, supervision is necessary to find out the extent to which the
objectives are met, assist workers by the efficiency with which any school
organization can operate which depends largely upon its leadership and
supervision practices in the school. This scenario demands that inspectors must
have a good knowledge of modern supervision skills especially in matter
relating to: effective supervision, quality assurance, community participation
in quality assurance and organizing resources to support the achievement of
goals and objectives of secondary education.
Furthermore,
in order to make teaching and learning effective in our schools, managers of
the school system should be made to take responsibility for their actions.
Because teaching is a profession, schools are held accountable for its
performance. It is in the light of these that head teachers and principals
under Bayelsa State Universal Education Board will be facilitated on the
rudiment of responsibility and accountability in school management. This is
with a view of making the management of schools in the system to be more
functional and more relevant to the learners.
NIEPA
as an Institute that specializes in capacity building through training and
re-training is organizing a five-day intensive workshop in collaboration with
the Bayelsa State Universal Basic Education Board to Address the issues
identified above in order to give the officials of SUBEB and LGEA the right
focus and training that will inject modern supervision skills which will make
them more effective and efficient in the discharge of their duties. The
workshop themes are therefore,
1. School Supervision,
Monitoring and Evaluation and
2. Responsibility and
Accountability in School Management
The
Institute unique participatory mode of training will be injected into the
programme; with this, the three components for effective behavioral change
namely: knowledge acquisition, skill acquisition and attitudinal change are put
in place as the participants will be working and shopping all through.
I
wish to appreciate the effort of the office of the Executive Chairman of
Bayelsa SUBEB, for The confidence reposed in us to capacitate the education
managers and inspectors in the State. We will not disappoint you.
Thank
you.
Dr. Peter Kolawole Ojedele
Director/CEO
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