CLASSROOM UNDESIRABLE BEHAVIOURS AND STRATEGIES USED FOR CONTROLLING THEM AMONG PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS

Abstract

The goal of education goes beyond making individuals acquire knowledge and skills but it is also to make individuals worthy in character. In recent times, there has been a general outcry about undesirable behaviours among children in the society at large and particularly in schools. This study therefore sought to identity undesirable behaviours common among primary school pupils
and the strategies used by teachers to control them in Ado Ekiti metropolis in Ekiti State. A descriptive research design of the survey type was adopted and the population consisted of all public primary school teachers in the metropolis. 200 teachers randomly selected formed the sample for the study. The instrument used was a self-designed questionnaire which was validated
and a correlation co-efficient of 0.94 was obtained at 0.05 level of significance. The result obtained showed that undesirable bahaviours common among primary school pupils in the study area include bullying, excessive noisemaking in the classroom, use of fowl languages, and lying among others. Strategies used by teachers to control them include, corporal punishment, timeout reward for good behaviours and so on. Teachers’ years of experience was also found to be significant on the kind of strategies they used. Appropriate recommendations were made based on the findings of the study.