The Impact of Principals' Instructional Supervision Techniques on Teachers' Job Performance in Secondary Schools in Bayelsa State

Abstract The paper explored the influence of principals’ instructional’ supervision procedures on teachers’ job performance in public secondary schools in Bayelsa State. The research employed survey. A questionnaire was used to gather information from the participants. The population of the study was five thousand and fifty eight (5,058) tutors in public secondary schools in Bayelsa State. A sample size of five hundred and forty (540) Teachers were selected using the proportionate random sampling technique. The sample size represents 11% of the population. The instrument of the study had a reliability index of 0.83. The data for the study were analyzed with simple percentage and regression analysis. The results of the study shows that principal instructional techniques impact and enhances teachers’ job performance. The research therefore concludes that principals’ instructional supervision techniques are very important for teachers’ job performance and therefore recommended that educational stakeholders and principals should ensure that principals’ instructional supervision techniques should be used to enhance teachers’ job in Bayelsa State.