IMPORTANCE OF CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENT

Abstract

The study was carried out to determine the importance of classroom management and control in some selected secondary school in Oredo local government area of Edo state. To achieve these set goals, the researcher carried out investigation by designing interview from the principal. Data collected from the interview where carefully study. The study will find out the impact of classroom management and control in some selected secondary school education. Summary, conclusion and recommendation would be made on how effect of classroom has contributed in the development of various aspect of secondary education in south to attain good standard in south-south local government area of Edo state.

 CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

• Background of the study

The idea behind classroom management in school is not to put across a single point of view about the definition but to bring together contrasting opinion and attitude so that the readers can be given the ground work on which to base his own conclusion of management. In the classroom and school premises and the development of good relationship. Manus (1989) sensibly pointed out four rules of classroom management and these four roles can be applied in the classroom / they are; Rule one: Get them in; the process of getting them in can be seen to involve three phase i.e. greeting, seating and starting Rule two Get them out; here the teacher needs to consider how phases of concluding a lesson on and dismissing a class. Rule three Get on with it; this referred to the main part of the lesson. The nature of its content and the manner of its presentation. Rule four: Get on with them; here the teachers develop good personal relationship with their pupils by fostering mutual, trust and respect to do this effectively the teachers need to be aware of each child as an individual and be sensitive to the mood of the class as a whole. This means knowing whose Looniz (1980) and Resser (1983) defined classroom management as an action that is intended to create effective working environment, which is stimulating all it members. He also went further to say that classroom management is the ability of the teacher to coordinate effective teaching and learning in the classroom, in other words classroom management is the ability for teacher to manage both men and material. Banjo (1978) sees classroom management as aiming and regulating publishing positive reinforcement of analyzing punishment as a remedial control measure. Adeyemo (1971) regarded classroom management as the concerns of large variety of strength forwards activities such as simple clerical duties, ordering maintain and distributing classroom materials and routine custodian for student’s behaviour.

1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

The complex nature of students in classroom coupled with the complex interaction among their pose, serious problems to the teachers in the teaching learning process.  In addition, the learning environment as well as the personality and experience of teacher have a lot of role to play ensuring a conducive or harmonious classroom situation necessary for effecting desired learning objectives.  All these call for effective classroom management skills on the part of teachers.  However the inability of school instructors or creating the desired of classroom climate militates against the acquisition of the right learning objectives by student, thereby making the school system o supper setbacks in stratifying social expectation for establishing schools. This problem necessitated or order to identity and ameliorates the problems of classroom management in schools, especially in Oredo local government area Edo state.