“…Subsequently, the researchers continued to implement the qualitative observational method by checking personal documents like scheme-cum-plans, produced by the teachers. As Chikwature and Oyedele (2016) advocate the researchers had to verify if the teachers were putting into practice strategic planning by planning for their future lessons in good time since strategic planning is identified as a process of defining strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating resources to pursue this strategy for the future. All of the sampled 30 teachers within the 3 United Methodist Church mission secondary schools were capable of producing scheme-cum-plans for the lessons they were going to teach the whole term which confirmed that, in this case, the teachers correctly perceived the role of strategic planning in educational development by putting it into practice through planning for their future lessons in good time.…”