Teachers’ Understanding And Practice Of Classroom Discipline Principles In Garu And Tempane Districts

ABSTRACT Teachers are by statutes and board regulations in a unique way charged with the direct responsibility for maintaining order in schools. Quite often, teachers use strategies that tend to give more power to themselves such as rules, regulations, punishment and rewards, to maintain order to the exclusion of students’ own efforts such as, students’ learning to selfregulate their behaviour based on their own experiences. The study investigated teachers’ understanding and practice of classroom discipline principles in basic schools in the Garu and Tempane districts. The study employed a qu…