27Mar 2017

HUMANIZING THE IMPACT OF DISRUPTIVE CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT ON NIGERIAN STUDENTS DISCIPLINE.

  • Department of Educational Management ,Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike. Abia State, Nigeria.
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Disruptive classroom environment has been a worrisome problem challenging school systems in Nigeria. It is filled with high incidence of disruptive behaviors ranging from noise making, eating, sleeping, inattentiveness, playing, etc. The paper looks into the concept of disruptive classroom behavior, forms, causes and ways of ameliorating disruptive behavior. The study concluded that when teachers use better instructional programs, there will be producing academic progress. Finally the paper recommended among others that teachers should endeavor to manage their classroom activities effectively and build positive interpersonal relationship in students, use viable instructional approach which directs them to concentrate in other to avoid disruptive classroom behaviour, assess students properly and counsel them from displaying social misfits' attitudes.


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[Ngerem, Eucharia Iheoma and Ngozi Ezikpe. (2017); HUMANIZING THE IMPACT OF DISRUPTIVE CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT ON NIGERIAN STUDENTS DISCIPLINE. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Mar). 1076-1079] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com


Ngerem Eucharia Iheoma (Ph.D.)
Deptment of Educational Management, College of Education, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike,Nigeria Un

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/3607      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/3607