ABSTRACT

Teachers are the nation builders in the classroom and improves student destiny He is the architect of happy homes, prosperous communities and peaceful nations. He has not only equipped himself with knowledge and skills to inform and instruct, but also the vision and insight to inspire and transform. Teachers are the second parents to every child and play a significant role in the student life and growth. It is believed that teachers can make tremendous positive changes in their students and can guide right and wrong of every action being a role model. To achieve the objectives of this study the expose factor design was used thirty three (33) secondary schools constituting forty percent (40%) of the eighty four (84) secondary schools in the study area were selected and used for the study. The sample of the study was made up of four hundred and thirty (430) teachers and eight hundred and sixty (860) students from the population  of eight hundred and sixty student, (430) teachers constitute fifty percent 50% selected and used for the study. Two student were randomly selected to access the effectiveness of each of the teachers sampled for the study and the average score was obtained for each teacher. Two set of each researcher design question are entitled secondary school resources questionnaire (SSRQ) with the reliability coefficient of 74 and teachers effectiveness questionnaire (TEQ) with reliability coefficient of 72 were used to collect data from teachers and students respectively. The data obtained were analyzed using independent t-test and all the five hypothesis were tested at 05 level of significance. The findings were that school differs significantly in their teachers effectiveness based on adequacy of qualified teaching staff.

SECTION ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1       Background of the Study

The most accepted criterion for measuring good teaching is the amount of student learning that accrues, a teachers effectiveness is about student learning, however, all teachers realize that what a student learns is not always within the teachers control. The retreateron teaching is crammed full of well researched ways that teachers can present content and skills that will enhance the opportunities for students to learn.

It is equally filled with suggestions of what not to do in the classroom. Students often have little expertise in knowing if the method selected by an individual instructor was the best teaching method just a method or by which the teacher was most comfortable.Teachers also have limited control over many of the most important factors that impact students teaching.

The federal, state, and local government as well as the school administrator and corporate organizations concerned are attempting to harness the personnel, materials and infrastructural resources designed to enhance success in the school planning and instructionalresources designed to enhance success in the school planning and management.

School resources are educational facilities and others resources, which are necessarily required in a school situation for effective teaching and learning to take place.Cestaldi,1977 described educational facilities to be those things required in education which enablea skillful teacher achieve a level of instructional effectiveness that far exceeds what is possible when they are not provided.

Adequate resources could contribute to the enhancement of teachers’ effectiveness in secondary schools which can influence the attainment of the set goals or objectives of the school system. Shortage of these resources or their unavailability is capable of negatively affecting the quality of educational impacted to the learners in most secondary schools.

School resources must be made available in terms of quantity and rigid quantity. Thus the educational resources of the secondary school may include classrooms, dormitories, halls, libraries, laboratory, workshop, football field, tennis court, school farm, and funding for effective operation of the school.Other resources are school equipment in terms of student desks, chalkboard, stationery, teachers’ tables, seats, offices, science equipment, apparatuses, various audio visual teaching aids, material resources are those materials available in the school for effective learning and are provided by the teachers, students and school administrators. These resources include books, drawing boards, models slides laboratories libraries lecture halls, workshops and equipment.

Material sources include all the physical structures used in the educational process. They include classrooms offices equipment books, vehicle and others in structural materials   that are necessary for teaching and learning, financial resources include funds and the information resources includes all communication networks linking up all the structural components of the educational system.

Recommended work books, textbooks and related materials to be provided to facilitate the work of both the students and the teachers. School equipment must be provided for the student teacher and the teachers, equipment must be provided to for the use of teachers and student. Appropriate science equipment for the physics, chemistry, biology and agricultural science along side their apparatus and chemicals must be provided in adequate quantity for use.

Human resources is usually called manpower which includes those administering the educational system, examples include teachers of all cardels, of institution and libraries.To achieve a better result each of the above staff should handle his/her duty conscientiously.

The teacher worksis in the centre of any education process among the work force and engaged in education.The success of any educational programme is much more in the teachers’ hands, and the quantity and quality of the teacher matters much because as Musa (1987) rightly observed the quantity of the products of any educational system cannot rise above the quality of the teachers with the responsibility of facilitating learning at its various levels.

Effectiveness cannot be achieved without adequate school resources and professional training in order to achieve set educational goals.As the population explosion of students in the secondary school continues, there is need for a corresponding provision of adequate school resources to achieve the needed teachers’ effectiveness. This study is therefore undertaken to see if there is any relationship between secondary school resources and the teaching effectiveness of teachers at thesecondary school level.

1.2   Statement of the Problem

The free and compulsory education policy of government has resulted in the influx of students into the state public secondary schools. This has increased the workload of teachers and the teachers’ effectiveness has been affected.The inadequacy in availability of requisite educational resources in public secondary school in Akwa IbomState implies inadequate classroom, large spaces for large class sizes, dilapidated school buildings and shortage of educational equipments and inadequate qualified teachers to cater for the increasing population of students in public secondary schools. This has invariably affected teachers’ effectiveness in public secondary schools in Akwa IbomState.

Resources like laboratories workshops, computers, typewriters, instructional materials have been abandoned and left out of use due to minor problems without repairs.

            Lack of maintenance culture resulting leaking roofs of school buildings and other dilapidated school equipment including lack of well equipment laboratories technical workshops has been noticed to have contributed to the common hazards in our schools.

1.3     Objectives of the Study

            Specially, the study sought to:

Determine the relationship between qualified teachers and teachers’ job effectiveness in public secondary school in Uyo Senatorial District.

Determine the relationship between school buildings and teachers job effectiveness in Uyo Senatorial District.

Determine the relationship between adequate funding and teachers job effectiveness in Uyo Senatorial District.

Determine the relationship between instructional materials and teachers job effectiveness in Uyo Senatorial District.