AVAILABILITY OF FACILITIES AND CAPACITY BUILDING INITIATIVES AS FACTORS OF INSPECTION EFFECTIVENESS AND IMPROVED TEACHERS’ PERFORMANCE IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN OSUN STATE
Abstract
Studies have shown that modern teaching techniques without the use of modern and relevant teaching facilities often culminate in low quality of teaching. This resultant low quality of teaching is always characterized with the low level of performance on the part of students. For instance, in most secondary schools in developing countries like Nigeria, teaching becomes essentially cumbersome. This is due to the fact that relevant teaching and instructional facilities and resources are scarcely made available to teachers. Also, no inspection efforts can be effective and interesting without teaching facilities being made available for inspectors to watch teachers working on them with their students. On the other hand, facilities may not be effectively made use of if teachers that will train or teach students with these facilities are not regularly treated to regular capacity building programmes that will encourage the teachers thereby making them be productive.
This study, therefore, investigated the impact of the availability of facilities and capacity-building opportunities on inspection effectiveness and improved teachers' performance. 40 inspectors were randomly selected from each of the thirty (30) local government inspectorate offices and the Inspectorate Division of the Teaching Service Commission of Osun State. 269 teachers were randomly sampled from nine (9) out of the thirty (30) local government areas of Osun State. The result shows that there are opportunities for capacity building for the inspectors with respect to workshop, seminar, and training and re-training. However, facilities are only fairly provided. Findings also show that the inspectorate division of the teaching service commission of Osun State has been encouraging improved teachers' performance by organizing workshops, seminars, and recommendations for loans.
