CHALLENGES OF INSTRUCTIONAL SUPERVISION IN NIGERIAN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM AND THE WAY FORWARD

Abstract

Education is a veritable commodity for any meaningful development in any society or nation that desire to measure up to international standard. For this reason it is pertinent that the process and product of education supposed yield results that can stand the test of time. In order to achieve this, government of most nations through the ministry of education in their educational policies endeavor to put in place machineries to see that qualitative and quantitative education is provided to its citizenry. They do this through supervision of educational activities. This paper is focusing on the concepts of instructional supervision, supervision, basis for supervision, principles of instructional supervision, purpose of instructional supervision, procedures and techniques for instructional supervision, qualities of an instructional supervisor, challenges of supervision, the way forward, recommendations and conclusion. Data for the paper is sourced from secondary data.