PRACTICES AND CHALLENGES OF INSTRUCTIONL LEADRSHIP IN GOVERNMENT SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF DIRE DAWA CITY ADMINISTRATION

Abstract

The main purpose of this study aimed at investigating the practices and challenges of instructional leadership in the government secondary schools of Dire Dawa City Administration. This chapter deals with the overview of the background, the statement of the problem, research questions ,objective of the study, significance of the study, delimitation of the study ,limitation, definition of key terms and organization of the study. The study reviewed the related literature on leadership aspects, dimensions of instructional leadership, teaching- learning roles of instructional leadership, and attempts were also made to identify factors that affect the effectiveness of instructional leadership. This chapter deals with description of the study area, research design, sources of data, population, sample size and sampling techniques, data collection instruments, data collection procedures, methods of data analysis, and ethical considerations were dealt in detail, This chapter deals with the organization, analysis and interpretation of the data gathered from the respondents through questionnaires, and interviews related to practices and challenges of instructional leadership in the eleven government secondary schools of Dire Dawa City Administration. The findings show that the major challenges affecting the practice of instructional leadership by teachers include lack of: awareness, skills, training, time, motivation, and support from school leaders. In line with the above findings and it was recommended that: to equip instructional leaders with necessary knowledge, attitude and skills, workshops, seminars, short and long term training in collaboration with different universities, colleges and NGO’s and schools need to think of their own income generating sources on top of government budget through improving their relationship with local NGO’s and school communities by preparing project proposal and submit to international donors.