Management Practices Of Principals On Co-Curricular Activities In Secondary Schools Of Dara Woreda

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to investigate the management practice of principals on co curricular activities in secondary schools of DaraWoreda North shoa zone. The study answered the basic questions, to what extent management of DaraWoreda secondary schools exhibit management practice of principals on co-curricular activities in their daily managerial activities, how do DaraWoreda secondary schools teachers view the level of management practice of principals on co-curricular activities and which dimension of management of co-curricular activities do secondary schools give more priority. In order to address the objective of study, a descriptive design was employed. The accessible population of the study was 32 teachers, 6 vice principals and 6 principals. From 36 sample respondents 30 teachers, 3 principals and 3 vice principals were selected used as a sample using simple random and available sampling techniques respectively. The data collected from the respondents through questionnaire, interview and document analysis was analyzed and interpreted using percent. This study found out that the teachers of DaraWoreda North Shoa Zone were moderately but nearest to highly practiced on faming the school goal, promoting professional development and providing incentive for teachers relatively among other management of co-curricular activities functions. Whereas, by giving training, motivation, supervising, evaluating of instruction and rising budget were significantly low performed function of management of co curricular activities. Then the researchers concluded that, management practice of principals on co-curricular activities in secondary schools of DaraWoreda was staled tried to practice but it is not satisfactory as expected. On top of these findings, recommendation was forwarded to address the least practiced function of management practice of principals on co-curricular activities of DaraWoreda.