Strategies for Restraining Classroom Disruptive Behaviours Among Public Secondary Schools Students in Ekiti State

Abstract

The study explored Strategies for restraining Classroom Disruptive Behaviours’ Among Public Secondary Schools Students in Ekiti State. Specifically, It sought to examine the types of disruptive behaviours, problems encountered by the schools and strategies to be adopted to curb disruptive behaviours perpetuated by students in the classroom during teaching and learning. Three research questions guided the study. A descriptive research design was adopted for the study. A sample of 100 respondents involving principals and teachers was used through a purposive sampling technique. Strategies for Restraining Students’ Disruptive Behaviours in Public Secondary Schools (SRSDBPSS) served as an instrument. Data collected was analyzed using mean and standard deviation. The analysis revealed that (1) lateness to school, irregular class attendance, fighting with each other within and outside the school, refusal to do assignments given by teachers, non-participation in-class activities, use of abusive language against one another, and operating phones during class hours were disruptive behaviours perpetrated by students. (2) Bullying of teachers and management by the punished students are always noticed, teachers get discouraged going back to class, which causes more stress for teachers as they become detracted from academic routine, and general bad relationship among students and teachers, and causes poor realization of educational objectives in school were the problems encountered by the school. (3) The use of classroom management, allowing students to have easy access to the teachers, promptness of teachers to the discharge of their tasks of teaching profession, insurance of appropriate seating arrangement by teachers, attentiveness of the teachers to both reported and unreported cases in class, regular checking of children by parents in schools, and maintenance of small and well-controlled class size were strategies to be adopted to curb disruptive behaviours among public secondary schools students in Ekiti state.

Received: 4 April 2024 | Revised: 4 September 2024 | Accepted: 12 October 2024

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest to this work.

Data Availability Statement

Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analyzed in this study.

Author Contribution Statement

Shaibu Leonard: Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Validation, Resources, Writing - original draft, Supervision; Momoh Danladi: Formal Analysis, Investigation; Amaha Christiana Ojochide: Data Curation; Odoma Lois Onyemowo: Writing- review& editing, Visualization.