Factors Influencing How Teachers Manage Their Classrooms

Abstract

Teaching and learning a foreign language is a social process which requires the interaction of two important parts of the process, the teacher and the students, in a social environment.  As this process takes place in a social context, it is inevitable to experience some problems while teaching the students having different needs, interests and levels. These problems may be caused by the students, teachers as well as the physical environment in which teaching and learning take place. It is clear that language teaching skill is not enough to handle these problems; teachers also need classroom management skills so that they are able to manage their classrooms. It is believed that successful classroom management is highly related to effective instruction. As classroom management is a general term that is affected by many factors, the effectiveness of classroom environment depends on how teachers cope with these factors and provide their students with a positive and friendly classroom atmosphere.  It is clear that a detailed analysis of the factors that affect successful classroom management and adequate teacher training on how to cope with them will make unmanageable classrooms manageable which will immediately result in effective teaching and learning process. In this article, factors that influence successful classroom management will be analyzed and possible solutions to these problems will be presented.