PLANNING AS A MANAGEMENT FUNCTION AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THEMATIC CURRICULUM (ITC) IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN DABANI SUB-COUNTY IN BUSIA DISTRICT. A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY.

Abstract

Background:

The study investigated how planning as a management function affects the implementation of the Thematic

Curriculum (ITC) in P/S in Dabani Sub-County, Busia District.

 Methodology:

The study randomly sampled a population of one hundred and eighty (180) people to form a sample size of one hundred and twenty-three (123) respondents.

 Results:

89 (74.2%) of the respondents were male and 31 (25.8%) were female which implies that there were more male teachers than female. There is a strong positive correlation between planning (providing more learning materials) and implementation of a Thematic Curriculum (doing exercises on a blackboard). This can be seen clearly from the correlation significance at 0.01 levels of 0.34 (r=0.34, p<0.01) This means that planning affected the implementation of a thematic curriculum, especially in the provision of teaching and learning materials.

 Conclusion:

The major conclusion of the study was that planning as a management function affected ITC.

 Recommendation:  

The recommendations were that the Ministry of Education and Sports in collaboration with District Education Officials should carry out more studies on; the recruitment and deployment of teachers in schools, the teachers' preparations, the teaching and learning process, and then factors that affect the setting of the minimum performance standard and making corrections from deviations in the ITC.