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The Impact of Years of Experience on the Classroom Management Approaches of Elementary School Teachers
International Journal of Instruction (2012)
  • Zafer Unal, University of South Florida St. Petersburg
  • Aslihan Unal, Georgia Southern University
Abstract
This study provided a basis for answering the following essential question: Does the years of experience affect teachers' classroom management approaches? Data were collected from 268 primary school teachers. The findings of this study demonstrated that experienced teachers are more likely to prefer to be in control in their classrooms than beginning teachers while interacting with students when making decisions. Investigating the previous studies, researchers were able to discover that there is certain path teachers follow through their career. While preservice teachers prefer non-interventionism (minimum teacher control), they support interactionism (shared control) during internship and early career years, and finally they prefer to choose complete teacher control when they become experienced teachers.
Keywords
  • classroom management,
  • classroom management approaches,
  • teachers,
  • teaching,
  • education
Disciplines
Publication Date
July, 2012
Publisher Statement
International Journal of Instruction is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Citation Information
Zafer Unal and Aslihan Unal. "The Impact of Years of Experience on the Classroom Management Approaches of Elementary School Teachers" International Journal of Instruction Vol. 5 Iss. 2 (2012) p. 41 - 60 ISSN: 1308-1470
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/unal/5/
Creative Commons license
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons CC_BY-NC-ND International License.