DISCIPLINE PROBLEMS IN THE CLASSROOMS OF BOARDING REGIOANAL PRIMARY SCHOOLS (BrRPS) AND THE WAYS HANDLING THEM (SAMPLE OF ELAZIG)

Fatma ÖZMEN ¹ , Tuba Tonbul ¹

The Boarding Regional Primary Schools (BrRPS) are the ones where the students coming from low level socio-economic families have been educated. The situations of the students as coming from disadvantaged families and being far from the families, have been inviting the discipline problems to be experienced more frequently. This research was done with the aim of determining the discipline problems and the approaches for tackling them at Boarding Regional Primary Schools. There are nine Boarding Regional Schools in Elazig and all of them were taken into the research coverage. One classroom teacher, one guidance teacher, and one manager from each school, as total 27 teachers constituted the work group in this research. The views of the subjects were taken by semi-structured interview questions. The replies of the subjects were scrutinized keenly, and through descriptive and content analysis techniques the themes were identified and the frequencies were computed. The obtained results revealed that the students had various behaviors which will despoil the discipline; and there were some deficiencies in dealing with the discipline problems.

Keywords
BrRPS, Discipline, Teacher, Guidant Teacher, Administrator,