Classroom Management Problems for Teaching Assistants

23 Practice Program and the solutions to the problems. The researcher explains the theoretical framework as follows to show the contribution of each theory on the theoretical description to the research. The theory of an effective teacher is included on the theoretical description to strengthen the sight of what an effective teacher looks like and should be in relation to classroom management problems. The theory includes the definition of an effective teacher, the characteristics of an effective teacher, and what makes an effective teacher effective. It gives a general background of some characteristics and criteria needed to possess by a teacher in order to be a successful classroom manager. It is also described to compare briefly between the problems faced by the practice teaching students and the relation to what extend an effective teacher can make teaching become more effective. Since this research is about classroom management problems, the researcher includes the theory of classroom management. The definition of classroom management is explained to give readers view about the basic concept of classroom management. In addition, the researcher uses four components of classroom management on the definition of classroom management to construct the questionnaire of this research. The researcher also includes the theory about the importance of classroom management, the goals of classroom management, the factors influencing classroom management success, the issues on classroom management, and the specific problems in managing classroom to give more additional background for readers regarding the basic of classroom management, its often-occurring problems, the factors of the problems, and the term that 24 classroom management is important to the process of teaching and learning activities. Besides giving an additional background of classroom management, the researcher notes the issues on classroom management, the specific problems on classroom management in the theoretical description in order to understand common problems on classroom management. Furthermore, the recent research on classroom management is described and summarized on the theoretical description to help the researcher understand common problems on classroom management as well. In other words, the issues, the specific problems, and the summary of the recent research on classroom management give the researcher additional knowledge about common problems on classroom management before the researcher constructs the questionnaire using four components of classroom management.