Classroom Management Practices of Secondary School Teachers in District Swat

Abstract

The study aimed to investigate teachers' classroom management strategies atsecondary level. The study's objectives were; to find out the classroom management strategies of secondary schools' teachers, identify problems in the classroom management of secondary schools' teachersand suggest strategies for effective classroom management atsecondary level. The population of the study was 5623 male secondary schools' teachers of district Swat. The researchers randomly selected a sample of 100 teachers through simple random sampling for the study and developed a questionnaire to collect data. The data were gathered with self-administered questionnaires and analyzed with frequency, percentages and Chi-square test. The study found the classroom management strategies of teachers as interactive discussion before classes, in the beginning,development of class rules in consultation with students, assigning individual, pair and group work to students, giving respect to the questions and answers of students and the use of body language to control misbehavior in their classes.It identified the problem of difficulty in establishing rapport with students in the beginning of the classes and suggested the strategies of interactive discussion, development of rules in consultation with students, assigning roles to students, use of body gestures and provision of pleasure environment in classes for effective classroom management. Keywords:classroom management, district Swat, practices, secondary schools teachers