CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
Even though today’s education have more research than ever on techniques to develop an effective learning community, why, then, does the topic of classroom management remain one of the most significant concerns for pre-services teachers entering the teaching profession. For school, the appropriate learning environment is critical to student’s success and strikes at the very heart of teaching. The importance of the classroom is documented through research and described in the characteristics of successful classroom mangers which is running the class smoothly with minimum disruption consistently gained in achievement, teachers who analyzed classroom task in precise detail determined the procedure and expectation required for students to be successful and the teachers who were effective in classroom management clearly communicated needed information and reduced complicated tasks had a good understanding of student skill level. And a teacher can be enabled to detect the Intelligent Quotient (IQ) of a child.
Intelligent Quotient (IQ) reflect the extent to which a child is mentally advanced or backward in his/her IQ weakness. According to Froyer and Iverson (1999) management occurs when teachers manage space, materials, equipment, the movement of the people and lesson that are part of the curriculum or program of studies. Classroom management is a term used by teachers to described the process of ensuring that classroom lesson run smoothly despite disruptive behaviour by students. A classroom discipline plan that is created by the teacher and implemented at the beginning of the school year or term, the plan include three (3) major components a set of classroom rules, types, and hierarchy of consequences for student who disobey the rules. And that will be the part of punishment, as part of classroom management and also part of the control that is been gained by a teacher.
Discipline can be seen as the order with which an individual advance towards achieving a goal that he has set up for himself or that someone has lawful set for him. Banjo (1998) seen discipline as the first law in good school for without it school life cannot fulfill purpose. Derek Bickerstatle (1971) has defined discipline as the highest order of control and self impose by the pupils rather than imposed from outside by the teachers.