iosr-JRME   Volume-10 ~ Issue-4 ~ July - Aug 2020

Abstract: Stress of principals in public secondary schools has been a serious problem to parents, the government and the Ministry of Education in developed and developing countries including Kenya. The problem has generated a lot of questions and debate for an immediate action to be taken if such cases like poor results, school drop- out, frequent transfers and principals' suicide are to be avoided. Despite the fact that principals of secondary schools have been trained in leadership and management, there is no information about the reasons why principals are stressed and cannot perform their work properly. The purpose of this study was to examine the level of stress among principals, and the objective was to establish the reasons why principals are stressed in their work performance. The study adopted the Cognitive Activation Theory of Stress (CATS) developed by Levine and ursin (1991....

Key words: Stress, principals, public secondary schools, Kisumu County

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Abstract: The purpose of the study was to analyze and find the headmasters' performance model that was built based on the associative causal relationship between exogenous variables and endogenous variables that were adaptively implemented in junior high schools in Medan, such as the influence of school culture and teamwork on work motivation; The influence of school culture, and teamwork on job satisfaction; The influence of school culture, teamwork, work motivation and job satisfaction on performance. This type of research is ex post facto. The performing was at Public and Private Junior Schools in Medan City, North Sumatra Province, involving 392 respondents. The results showed that: School culture had a direct positive effect on work motivation; teamwork has a direct positive.....

Key Words: performance, organizational culture, teamwork, motivation, job satisfaction

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Abstract: The study aimed at identifying the commitment degree of the secondaryschools' principals in the North Gaza Directorate to the dimensions of the servant leadership from the teachers' views. The researcher
used the analytical descriptive method. The study's tool was a questionnaire applied to the study's sample contained (259) male and female teachers. The main results of the study were as the following: the commitment
degree of the secondary schools' principals in the North Gaza Directorate to the dimensions of the servant leadership from the teachers' views had a large degree with a relative weight (%82.10). The dimensions came
in descending order as follows: Building a school community had a relative weight (%84.69), the provision of the leadership style had a relative......

Keywords: Servant leadership, principals of secondary schools, North Gaza Directorate

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Abstract: Quality education is attributed to sustainability of key educational resource requirements among them adequate well-trained teachers, without which the implementation of Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) geared towards provision of quality education envisaged in Kenya's Vision 2030 may be hampered. This paper purposed to project the teacher requirement for provision of quality education in primary and secondary schools in Siaya County by the year 2030. The study was founded on the system theory and adopted Trend analysis and descriptive survey designs to achieve its objective. Purposive sampling was used to select, TSC County Human Resource officer, TSC sub-county directors, MOE sub-county directors and an officer from KNBS. Primary data was collected through Data Analysis Proformas and Key Informant Interview (KII) Guides. Pupil-Teacher Ratio method and Method based on number of pupils per class and hours taught by a teacher were used to.......

Key Words: Teachers, Vision 2030, Quality Education, Competency Based Curriculum, Primary Schools, Seconsary Schools

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Abstract: Atropine is an antimuscarinic (a type of anticholinergic) that works by inhibiting the parasympathetic nervous system.1It is on the World Health Organisation's list of essential Medicines, the safest and most effective medicines needed in health system.2 Topical atropine is used as a cycloplegic to temporarily paralyse the accommodation reflex and as amydriatic to dilate the pupils.3 Anisocoria is a condition in which the pupil of one eye differs in size from the pupil of the other.(reference not known) A large unresponsive pupil may represent an omnious sign of potentially disastrous intracranial disease, but it may also result from trivial application , inadvertent or intentional of a mydriatic drug to the eye.4.....

Keywords: atropine, accidental pharmacological mydriasis,occupational hazard

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Abstract: The current study aimed to identify the causes of suicide and attempted suicide among public students' schools in the Bedouin community within the Green Line and the ways to overcome them. A qualitative research design was used through conducting semi-structured personal interview with a sample of (60) individuals included students' parents, teachers, and members of the local community. The findings revealed that there are (25) causes behind the spread of suicide and attempted suicide phenomenon among the students of public schools in the Bedouin community within the Green Line reported by more than (50%) of the respondents. The findings also showed that there are (13) suggestions may contribute to overcoming this phenomenon among students of....

Keywords: Suicide Phenomenon, Attempted Suicide, Schools' of Bedouin Community

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Abstract: Over the past threedecades, higher education institutions (HEIs) over the globe have undergone extensive changes and reforms related to improving the quality of their education. GulfCountries with no exception have shown an upward trend in implementing and adopting more stringent quality assurance measures and international accreditation standards and call for their higher education institutions to acquire program as well as institutional accreditation from national and international accreditation agencies. Our present study aims at evaluating the experience of HEIs in one of the GCC countries namely, Sultanate of Oman, in the process of quality assurance and academic accreditation with special reference to theexperience of Sultan Qaboos University (SQU).........

Key Words: Quality Assurance, Accreditation, Accreditation Agencies, SQU, Oman

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Abstract: This study aimed to investigate the impact of using the generative teaching strategy and laboratory work on the achievement and acquisition of chemical concepts among the ninth grade students in the bases chemistry in Jordan. The study sample consisted of ( 53 ) students from the ninth grade primary school of boys ,divided into three division randomly divided into three group , the first experimental consisted of ( 18 ) student who were consecrated using by generative teaching strategy and the second experimental group also consisted of ( 18 ) student were recruited by using laboratory work , and the third group consisted of ( 17 ) student who were consecrated traditional method .........

Keywords: Generative teaching strategy, laboratory work, achievement, acquisition of chemical concepts, chemistry, ninth grade.

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