College of Educational and Behavioral Studies Department of Educational Planning and Management
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2020
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to assess the practices and challenges of school based supervision in East
Wollega Zone Wama Hagalo Woreda in government secondary schools. To conduct the study, descriptive
survey design was employed. Among the 5 government secondary schools found in the woreda, 5 of them
were selected. From these sample schools, 46 teachers, 28 education leaders and 14 WEO experts were
included as respondents participated in the study through simple random, purposive and simple random
sampling technique respectively. Questionnaire was the main data gathering instrument for this study.
Thus, 46 teachers and 31 educational leaders (principals, vice, department head and senior teachers&
experts) filled the questionnaires. An interview was also conducted to enrich the qualitative data. As a
result, 5 school main principal, 2 vice principal and 4 WEO experts were interviewed. Quantitative data
was collected through questionnaire and analyzed by using mean scores and standard deviation. The data
gathered through interview was discussed in line with questionnaire. Consequently, the main finding came
out from this study were: school based supervision was insufficiently practiced, the teachers didn’t gained
enough support from supervisors in order to improve their instructional skills, and there was low
perception of teachers towards the implementation of school based supervision. On the other hand, there
were many challenges that those secondary school based supervisors come across while implementing
school based supervision. These were absence of key and transient intend to actualize school based
oversight, supervisors overburdened with different exercises, educators mentality towards management
work, absence of capacity to compromise and execution guiding, absence of clear bearing from woreda
training specialists and absence of helpful, genuine, amicable and collegial connections, instructors
obstruction and give convenient input where a test to supervisors in school based management. At long last,
to limit and if conceivable to take care of the issues, the accompanying suggestions were drawn; the
Woreda Education Office in a joint effort with schools should give a lot preparing to school based
supervisors, pre-administration and in-administration preparing for school based supervisors; School
based supervisors in Wama Hagalo Woreda secondary school supervisors ought to organize acceptance
preparing for amateur instructors in order to make them acquainted with the study hall guidance;
experience sharing projects and backing senior educators in doing activity research lastly the instructors'
mentality towards management should be changed by giving them preparing or by conveying them the
general target of the school