Educational Quest- An International Journal of Education and Applied Social Sciences
  • Year: 2017
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue: 1

Classroom Management in Relation to Professional Commitment of Secondary School Teachers

1Department of Education, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

2GHG Khalsa College of Education, Gurusar Sudhar, Punjab, India

*Corresponding author: puneet916@gmail.com

Online published on 15 June, 2017.

Abstract

Teachers play very important role in managing classroom activities and use strategies to ensure that the classroom provides a context to support and facilitate learning. In today's classrooms teachers must possess high degree of professional competences so that they can manage their classes efficiently and students get the maximum gain from their schooling. So, in the present study the investigator tried to explore the relationship between classroom management and professional commitment among secondary school teachers. Data was collected from 500 secondary school teachers by using classroom management scale by Neerja Gautam (2011) and Professional commitment scale by Dr. Ravinder Kaur, Sarvjit Kaur Brar and Dr. Sarabjit Kaur Ranu (2013). Results of the study revealed positive and significant relationship between classroom management and professional commitment.

Keywords

Classroom management, professional commitment, secondary school teachers