INSIGHTS INTO MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND TEACHER PERFORMANCE IN WESLEY GIRLS’ HIGH SCHOOL IN CAPE COAST

ABSTRACT The school realizes its objectives through a complex system involving policies and programmes, and supporting services, building and equipment and interactions with the community. The school organization is a service-providing set up. The teacher being an important agent of education cannot be spared in delivering the teaching services without which the school would be non-existent. The teacher is therefore indispensable in the school organization. When a nation expands its education system without adequately planning for teacher supply, the system suffers. Arko-Boham and Oduro (2001) commented on the situation in Ghana in the mid 1970s in the face of national development that called for nationwide expansion of schools and increase in enrolment