Managing nonteaching staff for institutional best practices and goal achievement in public secondary schools in benue state, nigeria

Educational institutions target academic excellence through teaching and learning; to attain this, institutions employ best practices in handling teaching and nonteaching staff towards achievement of educational goals been teaching and learning. This study examines the extent of influence managing nonteaching staff in public secondary schools have on institutional best practices and goal achievement in boarding schools in the era of Covid 19. Specifically, the extent of influence of managing boarding master/mistress and cleaners has on institutional best practices and goal achievement. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. The population of the study comprised 1,054 secondary school teachers drawn from 302 public secondary schools in Benue State. Out of which 350 teachers were randomly sampled. A self-structured questionnaire titled “Nonteaching staff and Best practices for Goal achievement Rating Scale (NBGRS)” was used to collect data for the study. Data collected was analysed using descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions while, Chi-square test of goodness of fit was used in testing the hypotheses at 0.05 alpha level of significance. Findings of the study revealed that managing boarding master/mistress and cleaners significantly influences institutional best practices and goal achievement in secondary schools. Recommendations were that; school administrators should build capacity through training and retraining of nonteaching staff in all aspects of Covid 19; for institutional best practices to be upheld for overall goal achievement in secondary schools.