High school teachers' strategies for coping with undesirable behaviors in the classroom

The purpose of this study is to determine what students' undesirable behaviors are formed in the high school, which coping strategies high school teachers use for these behaviors, the relations between the students' undesirable behavior and coping strategies of high school teachers and to examine coping strategies of teachers with respect to a) sex, b) seniority, c) branch, d) type of school they work, e) levels of the classes. The study was conducted in total 30 classrooms of which 16 are general high schools, 4 are anatolian high school, 5 are trade school and 5 are private schools by proportional group sampling method. For data collecting, an "In-Class Training Observance Form" developed by the researcher was used. This form was prepared by what students' undesirable behavior and what strategies teachers use by searching the literature. In this study, in order to investigate relations between data that were obtained oriented to sub-problems related with the main problem, observance frequencies and percentages of the strategies were calculated. These results are shown in the tables. As a result of the study, observance frequencies of students'undesired behaviors evolved at the classroom were determined. coping strategies of high school in front of students' undesirable properties were determined. The finding are this research are as follows: Behaviors such as "speaking with friends", "not listening to the teachers (dreaming, sleeping, being interested in the things except the subject)", "speaking without having permission" take place in the undesirable behaviors that are mostly observed in the classrooms. Besides; behaviors such as "complaining about friends", Wowing an object" and "using others belongings without having permission" are the ones that occur less as undesirable behaviors in the classrooms. It was observed that teachers use mostly "warning by name", "ignoring", "reminding of rules", "eye contact", "blaming" and "warning related with behavior" strategies. From the observations, it was found that teachers working at high school do not use "mocking" and "applying physical punishment" strategies in coping with students' undesirable behaviors. It was also found that women teachers use many strategies especially "making an agreement", "calling the family" and "warning silently" strategies ftequently in coping with students' undesirable behaviors. For the teachers who have worked for 1-9 years, it was determined that they use blaming few times and they do not use "sending outside", and "asking question" strategies. For the teachers who have worked for 10-14 years, they prefer "applying discipline regulations" and for 15-19 years, they use "giving task" strategy more than others. It was umderstood that teachers working for more than 20 years, never use "changing the subject" and "giving failure marks" strategies. When strategy use with respect to branches, it was observed that strategy use ratios of oral branch teachers are more varied than other branch teachers. Although most of the strategies especially "presenting alternative behavior", "applying discipline regulations", "ignoring" strategies were not used or less used in other high school, they were widely applied in general high schools. It was observed that "calling the family" and "directing to the guidance service" were applied at ninth grade, "warning" at tenth grade and and "threatening" at eIeventh grade mostly. It was concluded that "warning by name" and "reminding of rules" strategies were frequently used in undesirable behaviors.