Abstract:
Secondary education occupies a strategic position in the national education system.
The
secondary school is an institution established for refining human beings in terms of skills,
behavior and all round excellence. A Principal is regarded as the leader and head of secondary
school; he is responsible for all that happens in the school
who administers the school with other
teaching and non teaching staff,
t
he principal
is directly in every aspect of school operation and
his primary aim is determining the school quality and character. His roles in the management of
schools covers many areas which include leadership, teacher evaluation, student discipline, hiring
of new te
achers, staff delegation and parent community relations.
This
study was conducted to
look into the roles of principals in the management of secondary schools in some selected
secondary schools
in kebbi metropolis
.
Twelve schools were randomly selected thro
ugh
educational boards,
Two hundred questionnaires were administered. One hundred and forty
questionnaires for the princi
pals and forty for the teachers
and the results obtained were applied
in computing coefficient of correlation between two sets of data
collected independently and
further analyze, the findings showed that there was a sharp departure between the views of
principals and those of their teachers on whether principals were instructional or administrative
leaders of their schools.
In the light
of the findings,
it was recommended that principals should
try as much as possible to give much emphasis on both Instructional and Administrative duties to
ensure smooth running of activities in the schools, it also recommends that principals should have
f
irm grip of their curriculum in order to offer useful advice or assistance to the teacher’s e.t.c.
