Students’ Discipline Problems and Classroom Management Strategies to Cope with the Problems: Teachers’ Perspective

Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to get an insight into the perceptionsof teachers about student discipline problems and classroom managementstrategies adopted by them. Data were collected from 86 secondary schoolteachers, teaching in various Federal Government Institutions ofIslamabad, through the administration of the researchers-madequestionnaire. Additionally, semi-structured interviews from 6participants were also conducted to get in depth views of the teachers aboutthe discipline issues of students and their management strategies in thecontext of classroom and school. The focus of the study was oncharacteristics of students creating problems in the classroom, the mostfrequently occurring and major causes of discipline problems, andclassroom management strategies used by teachers to improve discipline.Teachers' opposed the practices of traditional punitive strategies inclassrooms; they suggested the use of soft disciplinary skills in case ofstudents' unwanted behaviour.