Developing English language teachers' teaching techniques and classroom management based on choice theory

This qualitative study investigates the professional development of English language teachers' classroom management and their teaching techniques through applying Glasser's Choice Theory. Moreover, the effects of this implementation on students' basic needs proposed by choice theory and teachers' perceptions and reflections about classroom management are examined. The population of the current research is Iranian English language teachers. The participants in this research, two female teachers and a male teacher, teach in a bilingual private school in an area with high-income and mostly well-educated families in Tabriz, Iran. The data collection instruments are interviews, field-notes data obtained by audio-recorded classroom observations, post-observation conferences, students' journals written during a six-month period and three questionnaires. Results from the study indicated that application of Glasser's Choice Theory is obviously fruitful in changing and enhancing English language teachers' classroom management, teaching techniques and their perceptions about it as well as meeting students' basic needs proposed by choice theory.