An investigation of secondary education teachers’ perceptions of classroom management techniques

The issue of classroom management is an important problem that teachers face in their classroom every day. Teachers often feel anxiety, worry and uncertainty about the classroom management techniques they have to choose and use. The purpose of this study is to investigate the frequency of use of teaching techniques and their utility for classroom management of Ilia secondary school teachers. The sample of the research consisted of 259 teachers of secondary education in Ilia and the quantitative method, with a questionnaire as a tool, was used. According to the results of the survey, the participants often use prevention techniques for classroom management and they believe that these techniques should often be used. Regarding the techniques of enhancing acceptable behavior, the participants use them several times, but they think that it is useful to use them frequently. Finally, as far as the techniques for controlling unacceptable behavior are concerned, the respondents use them several times and they think that it is useful to use them several times.