The opinions of geography teachers for classroom management styles: Karabuk sample

In this research, it is aimed to determine secondary school geography teachers? views for class management and whether their views for class management change according to their personal qualifications or not.The study group of this research in which scanning model was used as the research design was comprised of 60 geography teachers.In order to determine the teachers? views, the survey with 32 items and two sections called ?Determining geography teachers? views towards class management? was applied.In order to analyse the data of the research, frequency and percentages, average, standard deviation, independent samples t test in dual group comparisons, one way anova analysis in more than two groups were used. In case there is a meaningful difference among groups after one way anova analysis Tukey HSD (multiple comparisons) test were applied and the groups forming differences were determined.The statistical analysis of the data were sort out via SPSS 15 programme package with specialists.According to the results of the research; geography teachers? class management approach do not differ according to their gender and the schools where they were graduated from. Geography teachers? class management approaches do not indicate a meaningful variation in democratic class management approaches but varies in autocratic and irrevelant class management approaches according to professional experience. Geography teachers? class management approaches do not indicate a meaningful variation in democratic and irrevelant class management approaches but varies in autocratic class management approaches according to ages. Class management approaches of geography teachers autocratic and irrelevant class management approach do not indicate variation whereas democratic class management approach varies according to general class size. Geography teachers stated that they exhibit a partly autocratic approach in some of the issues determining the autocratic class management approach, in democratic and irrelevant management approach they exhibit a democratic and irrelevant management approach in general.Key words: Geography, Geography Education, Geography Teachers, Class Management.