Identification of Teachers’ Professional Challenges about Content Knowledge and Managerial Matters at Secondary Level

Abstract

The present research study as an effort to identify the teachers’ professional challenges regarding the knowledge of managerial matters at secondary level. For this purpose, researchers used quantitative as well as qualitative method for this survey and descriptive nature study. The explanatory sequential technique was used. The population of the study comprised; head teachers (HT), secondary school teachers (SSTs), students of secondary classes (SSCs). The stratified sampling technique was adopted for the proposed study. The desired data will be collected from Tehsil Rahim Yar Khan. The sample size of the study comprised 48 secondary school head teachers with the same ratio of male and female 144 secondary school teachers, 426 students of secondary classes with the same ratio of gender and locality. The questionnaires were developed for data collection from HT, SSTs and Secondary School Students. The study recommends that professional trainings for secondary school teachers must be organized for tackling content knowledge challenges, pedagogical difficulties and managerial challenges of secondary school teachers.