Abstract:
Purpose:Strategic management is a concept that is concerned with making decisions and taking corrective actions to achieve long term targets, objectives and goals of an organization.The main purposeof thisstudy wasto determine the influence of team-teachingon the students’ performance inMathematicsin public secondaryschools in Makueni Sub-County. Methodology:This study adopted a descriptive survey research design and the study targeted the 46 registered public secondary schools in Makueni Sub-County. Two sampling techniqueswere used; census on the school principals and systematic random sampling of30% of the Mathematicsteachers from every school toobtain a sample size of 118 study participants. Data collection wascarried out through administration of questionnaires.Data was analyzed usingdescriptive and inferential statistics with the help of statistical package for social scientists (SPSS) version 21, discussed and presented in tables. Findings:Descriptive statistics and regression analysis indicated that there was a positive relationship between team-teaching and performance in Mathematics. The findings of this study were in agreement with those of the previous studies reviewed. The study concluded that team-teachingis a major predictor of the students’ performance in Mathematics. Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy:The study recommended that the school administrators and other stakeholders in secondary schools in Makueni Sub-County should embrace team workas teachers for students’ optimum performance in their respective secondary schools.
