Investigation of Preservice Teachers' Communication And Classroom Management Skills

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate the predictive effect of communication skills on classroom management skills. The existing study was carried out in 2011- 2012 fall semester in Erzincan university faculty of education with pre-service teachers taking the classroom management lesson. Studying in the 3rd grade classroom teaching department, 204 pre-service teachers participated to the study. Within the scope of relational surveying model, it was used as a data collecting tool “Scale of opinionaboutclassroommanagement” developedby Ozay Kose (2010) forthe purpose of determining pre-service teachers’ views on classroom management. With regards to communication skills of participants, it was used a scale developed by Oner (2009) for the aim of communicating in the classroom of first level elementary education. The obtained data were analyzed by the techniques of descriptive, t-test, ANOVA and simple linear regression. They were then commented by the light of these techniques. According to the data, it was revealed that 66 % of classroom management skills of participants were predicted by communication skills. There was not revealed any meaningful correlation about classroom management skills between the gender and graduated high schools but also a meaningful correlation about communication skills between women and graduated schools such as Anatolian and Anatolian teacher training high schools. On the other hand, there was no meaningful correlation about reasons of teacher training choosing as a career in classroom management and communication skills.