RESEARCH PROPOSALName: Honey Mark Kennedy

ID: 2008411208EDU 540

Research Problem: Classroom Management Problems faced by

TESL teachers in their first year teaching profession, as well as the causes and potential solutions of these problems.

Proposal

To reveal classroom management problems that TESL teachers in their first year teaching profession had encountered, as well as the causes and potential solutions of these problems by considering the views of parents, school administrators and teachers.

The Purpose of the Study

What are the classroom management problems that TESL teachers in their first year teaching profession faced?

What are the causes of these classroom management problem?

What are the potential solutions suggested by teachers, administrators and parents for these classroom management and discipline problems?

Research Questions

Title: A Qualitative Study on Classroom Management and Classroom Discipline Problems, Reasons and Solutions: A Case of Information Technologies Class.

Authors: Mehmet Erdogan, Engin Kursun, Gulcin Tan Sisman, Fatih Saltan, Ali Gok, Ismail Yildiz.

Literature Review

The study is conducted based on the issues faced by Information Technology Teachers in Turkey.

Research is done using qualitative method. Aims of study; reveal misbehavior,

classroom management and discipline problems faced by IT teachers + reasons & possible solutions.

Summary

Qualitative research method. Provides the researchers to work small

groups, but thus to gain in-depth information, understanding and wider insight on the selected subjects (Patton;1990 Yildirim & Simsek,2008)

Research Method

Through Interview;i. Family members of the students that took

English course in school.ii. TESL teachers (Senior ones)iii. School principals and vice principals. Demographic information for the teachers

and administrators are also listed in the interview schedules. e.g: gender, experience in profession & work load.

Project Design

Qualitative data analysis was organized in five steps; method proposed by Schloss and Smith (1999) and updated by Erdogan and Ok (2007)

1) Transcription2) Reliability analysis3) Coding4) Establishing themes and categories5) Writing up and interpreting the result.

Data Collection and Analysis

Classroom Management problems will be grouped under this following themes;

a) Lack of motivationb) Breaking the rules and routinesc) Lack of infrastructured) Insufficient time managemente) Ineffective classroom environmentf) Lack of interaction in classrooms

Analysis

Causes of Classroom Management problems will be grouped under this following themes;

a) Place and structure of the course in the curriculum

b) Classroom environmentc) Classroom size and lack of teaching aidsd) Lack of rulese) Home environment and parents attitudef) Lack of teachers’ management skills and

students attitudes

Analysis

Solutions; Ways to overcome disciplines and classroom

managements problems??

Analysis