This study investigated school facilitates in public secondary schools in Delta State, Nigeria. The purpose of the study was to find out the state of the facilities, the types of maintenance carried out on the facilities by school administrators, the factors encouraging school facilities depreciation and the roles of school administrators in the management and maintenance of school facilities. The study employed the ex-post-facto research design. The questionnaire was the instrument for data collection from 640 respondents selected through stratified sampling techniques from all the 358 public secondary schools in the state. Findings revealed that school facilities in the schools are generally in a state of disrepair. The findings further revealed that the maintenance carried out on school facilities were inadequate for majority of the facilities. The factors encouraging school facilities deprecation included excess pressure on available facilities and delayed maintenance amongst others.

The purpose of this study was to identify effective classroom management techniques for secondary schools teachers. Two research questions were answered using mean while two hypotheses were formulated and tested using t-test and one way analysis of variance. at 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted the survey research design. A sample of 300 was administered questionnaire the instrument for data collection. Results obtained revealed the effective classroom management techniques included among others constant engagement of students in activities, use of innovative instructional strategies by teachers, teachers acting as models, monitoring, effective communication, stimulating classroom environment and regular use of questions during instruction. Findings further showed that teachers' classroom management effectiveness is a powerful motivator of student's learning. As regards the hypotheses, for hypothesis one, there was no significant difference between female and male teachers in their perception on effective classroom management techniques. For hypothesis two, there was no significant difference among principals, vice-principals and teachers in their perception regarding the effects of teachers classroom management effectiveness on students learning. Based on the findings, the study recommends that school principals should constantly organize seminars and workshops for teachers to get them acquainted with the effective classroom management techniques.

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