Teachers' Classroom Management Style and Students' Academic Performance

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Classroom management style is often called classroom discipline; it has been the priority for teachers. It is important to ask how classroom management is affected by the disposition of the teacher. Good classroom management is not an isolated component of an effective teaching performance. In its totality, teaching methodologies, classroom management styles or approaches and practices together set the environment for quality teaching-learning creating a positive impact on students' achievement. Having these observations, the researcher is motivated to find the relationship between teachers' classroom management style and students' academic performance.

METHODS

The descriptive survey was used in the study and questionnaire in gathering the data to determine the significant difference of the teachers' classroom management style to the academic performance of second year high school students in Bunawan National High School. The researchers asked permission from the principal of the said school before administering a survey questionnaire as a major tool in gathering data. There were twenty (20) teachers and 100 students at Bunawan National High School. The teachers were asked to answer the given sheet of paper for the questionnaire individually and the five teacher advisers were asked for the average grade of the 20 students in every section (5) in Bunawan National High School.

RESULTS

The results revealed that the respondents used authoritative style in teaching and it really influenced the academic performance of the students. It was found out that the Authoritative Classroom Management Style was appealing to the students based on the average grade. The academic performance of the second year high school students is 84.55 which mean most of the students passed. The recommendation of the study is identifying teachers who used authoritative in their teaching field as well as the other teacher who used authoritarian, indulgent and permissive and teachers should encourage using other style of teaching that suits to the students.

DISCUSSIONS

The study shows that authoritative style has great impact on the performance of the students. It maintained a disciplined learning environment of the students. A well-managed classroom provides an environment in which teaching and learning can flourish. However, learners nowadays have different learning styles that may even more boost their interest toward studying. Future studies on more effective learning styles of the students maybe further studied.