EFFECTS OF EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT AND SUPERVISION IN ACHIEVING EDUCATIONAL GOALS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ONDO WEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ONDO STATE. A CASE STUDY OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ONDO WEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT

ABSTRACT Management and supervision of schools for the purposes of achieving educational goals in the state has been the desire of every right thinking educational administrators. The purpose of this study therefore is to investigate how the problem of lack of infrastructural facilities, under-funding, poor teaching staff, poor service delivery by teachers and other various strategies could be solved in order to achieve the stated educational goals through proper management and supervision of schools. One hundred and fifty research questionnaires were distributed to five schools in Ondo West Local Government, Ondo state, which include; Independence grammar school, Life Veneration High School, St. James grammar school, Alilak Group of Schools, Temidire College School as the population of the study. Five research questions each one focusing on the five main problems of the study were formulated. A descriptive statistics using mean was adopted for data analysis, finding of the study showed that, inadequate facilities and lack of instructional materials, under-finding, and poor labor force constitute major problems of management and supervision of our secondary schools in those areas of study. The study was concluded with some recommendations which include; availability of fund to schools, feedbacks to schools for the correction of areas of weaknesses provision of adequate logistic to school inspectors and supervision provision of adequate labor force etc. the researcher believes that if all these are put in place, it will enhance proper and effective management and supervision of schools in order to achieve the stated educational goals.