Employer and Teacher-Related Challenges in Supervision and the Impact on the Quality of Teaching and Learning at Junior High Schools in Krachi Nchumuru
The study was set up to investigate the employer and teacher-related challenges in supervision and the impact on the quality of teaching and learning at junior high schools in Krachi Nchumuru. The qualitative research approach was employed alongside the case study as the design for this study. A convenient sampling technique was used to select seven (7) head teachers and fourteen (14) teachers making a sample size of twenty-one (21) participants. Data were collected through face-to-face in-depth individual interviews using tape recording. The thematic analytical method was used to analyze the collected data. The findings included the presence of teacher resistance and negative attitudes towards supervision, teacher inadequate lesson note preparedness, teacher lateness and absenteeism, distrust between teachers and school heads as supervisors, employer inability to effectively supervise teachers, rigidity and authoritative nature in the supervisory process, unfriendly, suspicious, and dominating nature in the supervisory process, inadequate supply of logistics for supervision and inadequate training offered to school heads on supervisory skills. Some recommendations made included the Ghana Education Service should organise supervisory training for all school heads, the Ghana Education Service should provide all schools with the required logistics to achieve effectiveness in supervision, and all school heads should provide ongoing professional development opportunities for all teachers on teacher supervision and lesson note preparation, the Ghana Education Service should work with education practitioners to remove all forms of teacher resistance, teacher negative attitudes, supervisory rigidity, and authoritativeness and they should help to shift the focus of supervision from a top-down approach to a collaborative partnership between school heads and teachers.
Keywords: Supervision, Resistance, Professional training, effectiveness, Quality, Teaching and Learning
