Examination of the Strategies Implemented by Preschool Teachers in Class Management against Undesired Behaviors

Preschool education can be defined as the development and education process that covers the period starting by the birth of the child till the beginning of the basic education and has a very important role in the lives of... [ view full abstract ]

Preschool education can be defined as the development and education process that covers the period starting by the birth of the child till the beginning of the basic education and has a very important role in the lives of children; when the physical, psycho-motor, social, emotional, mental and language developments are largely completed and the personality is shaped in this direction. In this process, preschool education institutions come after the family which provide an environment where children can create their own environments with their peers and undergo a development in the healthiest and most natural way. And an effective implementation of educational objectives in preschool education institutions can be achieved through an effective classroom management. Positive and negative behaviors of the students are directly related to the behaviors of the teacher. The behavior of all students can change with the establishment of an effective classroom management system by the preschool teacher. In this content, it is considered to be important to determine the classroom management skills of the teachers who work at preschool education institutions. Starting from this point, it was aimed to determine the classroom management skills of the teachers working at preschool education institutions and to examine whether various variables in the classroom management skills of the teachers make any difference or not. The population of the comprised of preschool teachers who were employed as permanent staff at the preschool education institutions in the districts of Ankara, where both private and public nursery schools existed and who were voluntarily participated in the study. For the purpose of obtaining information about the teachers, the "Personal Information Form" developed by the researchers and the "Scale for Determining the Strategies of Preschool Teachers Against Undesired Behaviors in Classroom Management " developed by Keleş (2015) were used in the study.