Practices of Teachers' Management in Government Primary Schools Bahir Dar

HaiIU, workineh

dc.contributor.author	HaiIU, workineh
dc.date.accessioned	2017-08-23T08:32:10Z
dc.date.available	2017-08-23T08:32:10Z
dc.date.issued	2012-08-23
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/7794
dc.description	A 1'hesis Submitted to the Graduate School in Partial Fulfillment of the RequirefllOlts for the Degree ·Of Master of Art (M.A.) in Educational Planning and Management/EDPM/	en_US
dc.description.abstract	The main aim of this study was to examine the practice of teachers' management; to identify major problems in some public primary schools of Bahir Dar, and to indicate the implication of the practice towards decentralization system. To this end, an attempt was made to look in to the current practice of need assessment for teaching staff, satisfying the needed staff, staff improvement, and retention as well as major problems encountered to the practice. A descriptive survey method was employed to reveal the current status of teaching staff management in the study area. The sample schools were selected from the town on the base simple random sampling method. The subject of the study was 86 primary school teachers, and 7 mersu experts at woreda and school level. Stratify and simple random sampling techniques' were used to select sample subjects. Questionnaire and interview were used to gather information. Most of the questionnaire items were contained a 5 point Liket scale. The information obtained was then analyzed using various statistic tools such as percentage, frequency, and arithmetic and weighted mean score. The data gathered from the interview of principals and mersu experts were used as a supporting data. The finding indicated that the schools in the study area assess their , need for teaching staff, but the plan was not enough used to secure appropriate people for the .. place available place and avoiding problems. Moreover, the practice of satisfying staff needed and improving the staff was done somehow good but" needs improvement in recruitment, selection and posting functions. Experience and practical test were not used in selection criteria. Ev~luation was found less important to improve teachers' performance. Less or no discussion was made between appraisers and teachers: School principal were found highly responsible body ·in the need assessment and evaluation functions. The effort of schools in finding and facilitating opportunities for training and creating good work environments was found low. Based on the findings it is concluded that the current practices of teachers' management in the study area is in a good track with lots of problems and need of improvements to provide quality education at all. The practice has positive implication to the presence of decentralization system.	en_US
dc.subject	EDUCATIONAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT	en_US
dc.title	Practices of Teachers' Management in Government Primary Schools Bahir Dar	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US