Pedagogic supervision of secondary school teachers and its impact on teacher’s effectiveness in some secondary schools in Yaounde VI municipality

Abstract

Pedagogic supervision plays a significant role in education system by ensuring that instructional procedures, curriculum contents and teaching methods and activities are strictly followed by teachers in schools setting. It is in this light that the study investigated the influence of pedagogic supervision on teachers’ effectiveness in secondary schools of Yaounde 6. The study adopted a quantitative research design, especially descriptive and regression. A sample size of 159 persons was obtained from five secondary schools in Yaounde 6 with the use of stratified random sampling technique. The instruments for data collection were self-administered questionnaire consisted of five sections: Section A collects information on the sociodemographic characteristics of the respondants; Section B, the leadership style used by the supervisor; Section C, the supervisory techniques and activities; Section D, the perceived support of supervisor and Section E, the effectiveness of teacher. Simple linear regression analysis was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance using SPSS statistical package, version 20. Based on the analyses, the following findings were made: leadership style used by the supervisor, supervisory teachniques and activities and perceived support of the supervisors significantly influence teachers’ effectiveness in secondary schools in Yaounde 6. The study therefore concluded that instructional supervision is a vital aspect of school administration and thus recommended that the schools administrators and supervisors from secondary schools should regularly conduct supervision in schools to ensure maximum growth of teachers in doing their job and the state governement should always make provisions of suggested instructional materials by institutional supervisors to teachers to aid classroom instruction.