Determination of the Difficulties that Pre-school Teachers Face with Classroom Management

摘要

The purpose of this study is to determine the classroom management skills of preschool teachers and their relations with other variables. The sample includes 95 preschool teacher that work either state or private preschools in 2012-2013 semester.In order to collect data, a questionnaire is developed by the researchers via analyzing the literature. The questionnaire has 2 parts. The first part includes the age of the teacher, graduation school, year of work, work history, age group that he/she works and the number of students in the classroom. The second part covers 10 items about the difficulties that they face in classroom and behavior management in two sections.It has been found out that there is no significant difference between the mean total score related to the problems in organization and behavior management faced by pre-school teachers participated in the study according to their age, working duration at the institution and age group they work with, but there is a statistically significant difference according to education level, years of service, type of school and number of children they work with.