International Research Journal of Education and Technology

This study examined head teachers’ planning skills and their job effectiveness in primary schools in Calabar Education Zone of Cross River State, Nigeria. A survey design was adopted in the study and the population consists of two hindered and eighty-two public primary school head teachers and 3981 within the area of study. And a sample size of 282 head teachers and 1,128 teachers from the government-owned primary school in Calabar Education zone will be used for the research. The researcher developed two sets of the instrument to obtain data for the study, namely: Headteachersplanning skills questionnaire (HTPSQ) and “Teacher job effectiveness questionnaire (TJEQ)” and the instrument was validated by three experts in Educational Management and Measurement and Evaluation and a trial test was employed to establish the reliability of the instruments using Cronbach alpha reliability and the results ranged from78 to .98. The data were analysed with Person Product Moment Correlation Coefficient and the findings revealed that communication, motivation and supervisory skills significantly relate to teachers’ job effectiveness. It was also recommendedamong others that school management in the study area should be strengthened to closely monitor the head teacher’s supervisory practices so that teachers’ failure to perform duties as required does not have an account on the head teacher’s roles.

Keywords:Planning Skills, Teachers, Job &Effectiveness