Management of Education at the Secondary School Level through Effective Leadership Practices for National Development

Abstract

Education remains the key to national development. This paper examines the management of education at the secondary school level of through effective leadership practices for National Development. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. Four research questions guided the study. The population consisted of all the teachers and the secondary schools in the study area. Simple random sampling was used to selected teachers for the study. The questionnaire titled– “Managing Secondary School through Effective Leadership Practices of Principles for National Development" (MSSTELPPND) was the instrument. The instrument was tested for reliability co-efficient and yielded 0.78; 0.69 and 0.71 respectively using the Cronbach Alpha. Research Questions were analysed with simple frequency, percentages and Mean statistic. The findings revealed that effective leadership practices of the principals were imperative for national development. Therefore, it is recommended that Ministry of Education should organize leadership training programmes for teachers and principals in secondary schools.