INSTURACTIONAL LEADERSHIP OF PRINCIPALS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF PASTORALIST WOREDAS OF BALE ZONE, OROMIA REGINAL STATE

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investgate instructional leadership of principals in secondary schools of pastoralist woredas inBale zone , Oromia Regional State. In order to address the objectives of the study descriptive servey design was employed.The quantitative data was collected using a questionnaire from school principals, Supervisors and teachers. The qualitative data was collected using an oneway interview from school principals and supervisors. The sampling technique used to select teachers, principals and supervisorssample was simple Random sampling technique.The quantitative data was collected and analyzed by using one way ANOVA , percentages, frequency counts and means while the qualitative data obtained from interview was analyzed using narration and description in the way it supplement the quantitative data. The findings revealed that ,among instructional leadership practice of principals in secondary school of pastoralist woredas in Bale zone, there is low level of Instructional leadership activities, instructional leaders’ role in communicating school goals are very low, low coordination and evaluation of instruction, weak monitoring of school activities, weak protection of instructional time, less maintaining high visibility, promoting professional developments are below to the average. Whereas, coordination of the curriculum, providing incentive for teachers, and incentive for students were significantly low performed. Based on findings it is concluded that, instructional leadership of principals in Balezone pastorialworedasseems to be at very low level. On top of the findings, recommendations are forwarded to address the challenges that hinders the principals’ faced in their instructional leadership activities mainly focusing on empowering both principals and schools community to foster instructional leadership practices in the secondary schools of the Bale zone pastoralist woredas. Thus, it is advisable forWoreda education offices, Zonal Educational Department, and Regional Education Bureau in cooperation with nongovernmental organizations facilitate the training programs for the effectiveness of principals.