PRACTICES AND CHALLENGES OF INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP IN GOVERNMENT SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF EAST SHOA ZONE, OROMIA REGIONAL STATE

Abstract

The purpose of this study was in to investigate the practice and challenges of Instructional Leadership in government Secondary Schools of East Shoa zone.. Descriptive research design along with quantitative method was employed. The school leaders (principals, vice principals, unit leaders), class monitors, teachers, department heads and supervisors were selected through purposively and simple random sampling for teachers. Quantitative data were collected, through questionnaires, from respondents (65 classroom monitor students, 101 teachers and 35 department heads), and an interview from (12 school leaders ) were also part of data collection for the study. Using SPSS version 22, quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation and inferential statistics ANOVA while the quantitative data were analyzed using thematic approach. Finding of the study revealed that the instructional leadership is moderately practiced. Leaders were not inspire towards vision achievement, consider the needs of the staff and not loyal and respect the staff. On the other hand, leaders face such challenges of how to inspire towards vision achievement, Lack ability to regularly identify any instructional limitations of teachers in the classroom; identify the student evaluation skill gaps of teachers; encourage and facilitate school self evaluation on instructional matters and facilitate the availability of instructional materials and encourage teachers to use it appropriately which affects trust side of instructional leadership. It was thus concluded that leaders were not involve themselves in components of instructional leadership. Based on these findings it is recommended that Oromia Education Office specifically team of teachers development should have to give significant attention needs to leadership development plan so that leaders improve their leadership skills to change the schools