11 and the classroom conditions for the attainment of educational goals which consist
of provision and procedure. In this study, classroom management refers to the methods, strategies and
skills of teachers which are used to maintain, control, and manage learners’
behaviors including misbehaviors. As we know, the classroom environment in young learners is crowded, multidimensional, fast-paced unpredictable and puvlic.
Classroom management refers to the wide variety of techniques that teachers use to keep students organized, orderly, focused, attentive, on task, and academically
productive during a class. However, this study focuses on misbehaviors which happen in an English Young Learners classroom, the situations of classroom
around which the misbehaviors happen, and the teacher’s strategies in handling those misbehaviors.
b. Classroom Management and the Teacher
A teacher is a role play in classroom management, and they are responsible for creating a well-organized classroom. The teacher has to invest a
great deal of time and effort in creating it. According to Scrivener 2005, a teacher is required to have some certain
organizational skills and techniques in managing multitude of tasks and situations can occur at any time in classroom p. 79. In addition, Scrivener makes a valid
point when he says that a teacher has to be able to look at and read classroom events as they occur and think of possible option 2005, p. 80. Then there is time
to make suitable decisions and turn into effective and efficient actions Scrivener, 2005, p. 80.
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Figure 2.1. Basic skills of classroom management. This figure illustrates the basic skills of classroom management source: Scrivener, 2005, p.80.
Evertson 2007 states the key components which affect the success in classroom management are the development of a quality relationship between
teacher and students, good communication, and keeping children on task. By knowing and understanding the students the teacher can develop the relationship
with the students. Gower, Philips and Walters 2008 emphasize that the teacher has to consider balancing between being friendly and maintaining discipline p.
21.
c. The Main Areas of Classroom Management
Lemlech 1999 states that classroom management skills consist of rules and procedures that help the teacher to run classroom smoothly p. 10. Evertson
2007 adds that it is vital for to teacher establish effective classroom management strategies to use in classrooms, so that children keep on learning. These are the
common of classroom management area.
1 Grouping and Sitting
Look
Looking at classroom
events minute
by minute
Options
Finding option. Making
decisions between one
option to another
Actions
Doing the chosen
action
