GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT
This study aimed to find out the extent of principals’ coordination of school plant and discipline as predictors of teachers’ service delivery in secondary schools in Imo State. The research design adopted was ex-post facto. The area of the study was Imo State of Nigeria. The population of the study comprised teachers and principals in the 253 public secondary schools in Imo State. The sample size of 572 teachers representing 8 percent of the teachers’ population was selected using stratified random sampling technique. The validation of the instrument was carried out to ensure that the instrument has the accuracy, appropriateness, completeness and the language of the study under consideration. The reliability of instrument was adopted to establish the internal consistency in determining the reliability coefficients of the instruments. It was concluded that the independent sub-variables used which included: coordination of school plant and coordination of school discipline do predict teachers’ delivery to a significant low extent in public secondary schools in Imo State. This implies that although teachers’ service delivery is predicted to a low extent by these variables, it is significant, hence, the need for school administrators to enhance their managerial functions in building sufficiently motivated and effective teachers in order to meet up with educational goals. The study therefore recommended that Principals should ensure that school plants are well coordinated to enhance teaching effectiveness and Principals should adopt appropriate strategies, like making list of standards and consequences for misbehavior to teachers and students in order to build a reputation for fairness in their disciplinary actions.
Keywords: Principals’ Coordination, School Plant, Schools’ Discipline and Teachers’ Service Delivery