GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT
This study sought to find out the extent of Principal’s Supervision of Instructions and mentorship of Teachers as Predictors of Teachers’ Service Delivery. The research design adopted was an ex-post facto design. The study was conducted in Imo State of Nigeria. The population of the study comprised 7,602 teachers and 253 principals in the 253 public secondary schools in Imo State. The sample size of 555 teachers was used for the study. The main instrument used for this study was a questionnaire tagged “Principal’s Supervision of Instructions and Mentorship of Teachers and Teachers’ Service Delivery Questionnaire (PSIMTTSDQ)”. The instrument was validated by field experts. The reliability of instrument was adopted to establish the internal consistency in determining the reliability coefficients of the instruments. The study concluded that the independent sub-variables used which included: supervision of instructions and mentoring of teachers, predict teachers’ delivery to a significant low extent in public secondary schools in Imo State. This implies that although teachers’ service delivery is predicted to a low extent by these variables, it is significant, hence, the need for school administrators to enhance their managerial functions in building sufficiently motivated and effective teachers in order to meet up with educational goals. From the on-going, it was therefore recommended that principals should organize routine supervision of instructions and mentoring of teachers and principals should maintain smooth and strong relationship with staff and avoid unnecessary rancor that may kill motivation and in turn reduce effectiveness in service delivery of teachers. Principals should ensure routine supervision of instructions to enhance teaching effectiveness and Principals should also incorporate appropriate mentoring technique like developing veteran teachers to share best practices with other teachers whereby they communicate, collabourate and share with each other in order to promote effective service delivery.
KEYWORDS: Principal’s Supervision, Instructions, Teachers Mentorship, Teachers’ Service Delivery, Secondary Schools.