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The management of primary schools in every country in the world calls for head teachers to be well trained and qualified to discharge school duties. Due to enormous resources and effort that is used in training, managers are under pressure to demonstrate the effectiveness of training. Despite the introduction of Diploma in Education Management by Kenya Education Management Institute Training (KEMI) in 2011, there are numerous cases of mismanagement reported in some schools in Uasin Gishu...

This paper highlights some of the problems teachers face in teaching reading comprehension in large multilingual classrooms at the basic education level in Nigeria. The paper proposes some strategies that can be used for affective teaching of reading comprehension in large multilingual classrooms. The implication for teachers and the curriculum were highlighted. The paper concludes by suggesting that communicative activities such as role plays question and answer sessions, problem-solving...

The major challenge of the Contingency Approach to management as practiced globally is that the causation effect is presumed but not explained. Ironically, some businesses can exist over a long period with poor fit because the industry is profitable enough or has successfully created entry barriers to support its operation even though it may be in sub-optimality. This study establishes the influence of contingency factors on Learning Organization. The sub-variables here were Organizational...

This paper deals with the re-appraisal of Teacher Education and value re-orientation as they affect Nigeria educational system. Especially on the quality of teachers who implement government policies on education. References were made to good old days in Africa when morality, honesty and sincerity pervade everywhere unlike now that foreign culture has bastardized our value. The concept of value and value re-orientation was revisited to ascertain what is acceptable to Africans as a group of...

This study investigated the relationship of causal attributions and academic attainment of Colleges of Education students in north- west geo- political zone of Nigeria. The study was based on the hypothesis that there is no significant relationship between causal attributions and academic attainment of students. The questionnaire on Academic Causal Attribution Scale (ACAS) were administered to 389 students (300 level) drawn from eight (8) Colleges o f Education. Furthermore, students’ Grade...

Abstract Rainfall variability, including drought, consistently translates into variation in grass productivity in savanna ecosystems. These variations in grass availability can impact grazer populations, which can in turn shape grass responses to drought. However, despite clear evidence that grazers move freely in response to forage and water availability, drought ecologists have mostly failed to consider how these landscape‐scale processes influence vegetation responses to drought. Here, we...

The study examined impact of expert system as a tool for efficient teaching and learning process in educational system in Nigeria, using University of Port Harcourt in Rivers State, Nigeria as a case study. The specific objectives of the study include to: Identify types of expert systems available to the teaching and learning process in the study area; Identify expert systems used in the education sector in the study area; Identify human systems used in the study area; determine the extent...

The main of this study was to investigate how students' negative attitudes towards physics can be changed by teacher mastery of subject matter.That is, the study was based on the framework that, teacher effectiveness can change physics students' negative attitudes to positive.The sample of the study was made up of 1800 from a population of 4220 physics students of form three.This study was carried out in sixteen secondary schools in the South West Region of Cameroon.To select schools for...

Mainly, the aim of the research was to explore the absence of governmental commitment and find out the structural barriers that hindered the execution of inclusive education in Ethiopia.Exclusionary issues that Ethiopian schools face today are highly related to ignorance and lack of commitment that stem from education authorities and even from teachers of students with disabilities.Subsequently, I employed qualitative approach under the hegemony of constructivism paradigm to locate where the...

Mathematics teaching has been described by scholars to be a task found at various times to be daunting and with a recorded number of successes and failures. It could be made to be more enticing if certain requirements are maintained. One of these requirements is the utilization of adequate and relevant instructional materials. In this regard therefore, this paper portrays what an instructional material is: types of instructional materials in mathematics and how best those materials could be...

Small group is hugely rewarding, both for facilitator and learners.This pedagogy is the best teaching skill worth nurturing and defending.Small group offers flexibility, interaction, flexibility, reflexibility.and engamement.To teach standard seven learners in English composition writing offers the learners opportunity to be able to work well in the groups where behaviour, collaboration and communication is natured.The study was guided by the objectives: To examine the influence of small...

The study was an attempt to investigate the level of awareness on Metacognitive reading strategies among first year Ethiopian EFL students. It also tried to figure out the possible relationship between Metacognitive reading strategies use and reading comprehension achievement. Ninety-four EFL learners participated in the study. Metacognitive reading strategy inventory and reading comprehension test were used to collect the data. The data were analyzed through descriptive statistics to...

This article describes the problem in the implementation of Communication Skills in the Primary schools of Mauritius. Some of the solutions will also be given so as to help the teachers gain confidence in the implementation and so that students too show more interest in speaking the Tamil language. The main sources for this paper were based on Tamil Textbooks of Mauritius, National Curriculum Framework of Mauritius and interview. The period that had been considered was since the...

A mission school refers to an educational institution owned and operated by the Church. The primary aim of establishing such a school is for grass root evangelism. It was a success story in Nigeria during the colonial days because it helped the church to Christianize the people in the area of its operation thereby expanding its missionary frontiers. Despite the fact that it was challenging running such schools, the missionaries were determined to succeed. Focusing not on monetary gains but...

The author’s longitudinal study of the issue of languages has led him to find out that normal relationships, which people usually have with their own languages require four necessary conditions: 1- They must speak to each other only in their own languages 2- They must use them in writing 3- They must have good knowledge of the meanings of the words of their languages as well as of their grammatical and spelling rules. 4- The full practice of 1,2 and 3 by the citizens and the institutions in...

This exploratory study examined the potential for adapting Online Labs (OLabs), an innovative educational initiative of Digital India, for use in secondary schools in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa. OLabs provides exposure to and participation in scientific experiments for students attending low-resource schools and cannot provide expensive laboratory equipments. Following a site visit in India, we examined Côte d’Ivoire curriculum documents and interviewed a variety of Ivorian stakeholders...

Bight of Benin coast is highly vulnerable to climate change and one of its negative effects: sea level rise. It affects the coastal zones of Ghana, Togo and Benin. Within these areas, a substantial impact is expected not only on livelihoods but also on key infrastructure in coastal areas, leading to the destruction of coastal line and its habitats, socio-economic mutations and beach erosion increase. In Togo, the erosion retreat, due to improper coastal and infrastructure management, has...