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(2021)Goal. The objective of this study is to survey classroom teachers’ insights of authority, its contribution to peaceful work environment and finally, how the amount of work experience affects these two factors. Teacher’s authority has been examined and written about from many different perspectives. It has been affected by changes in society and the school system. The aim of this study is to describe and address the topic as broadly as possible in order to outline the big picture. Authority has been seen to have a very large impact on peace in the class. The concept of peace at work is subjective and is usually approached from the discourse of issues. Both topics and related changes have also been actively discussed in the media in recent years. The study also took into account changes over time and their effects. Methods. The study was conducted as a qualitative study using a phenomenographic research approach. The material was collected using an electronic questionnaire and the respondents were working as a class teacher. The group of respondents was quite heterogeneous and the survey was answered anonymously. The material consisted of replies given by 33 people to open interview questions. The data was analyzed in relation to three different research questions. Results and conclusions. The research results showed that classroom teachers defined authority mostly in relation to agreed rules, student encounters, interaction, and trust. The length of teachers’ careers affected their responses in many different ways. Novice teachers felt they had less authority than those who had worked in the field longer. Novice teachers also didn’t emphasize the importance of the rules as much in their responses, but rather highlighted aspects of positive pedagogy. The majority of respondents felt that their class was in favor of peace at work and only four expressed dissatisfaction with peace at work. Almost half of the respondents mentioned certain students disturbing peace at work. Respondents who had been teachers for the longest time found most often their working peace to be good, but also stated more often that certain students perceived working peace as challenging.
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(2016)Aim. The purpose of this study was to examine classroom management problems and its effect on teacher's well-being. The objective was also to examine successful classroom management and ways to advance classroom management and teachers' well-being. The study introduces ways to advance classroom management and work related well-being. Class-room management is a current topic in schools. Schools should be safe for both students and teachers. Teachers' well-being has been studied widely but mainly from a negative point of view. Methods. The study was conducted as a qualitative research. The research data consisted of individual interviews with seven teachers who work in the Uusimaa area. The interviews were semi-structured and were held in April 2016. Data from the interviews was analysed by using theory oriented content analysis. Results. The effect of classroom management (problems) on teachers' well-being was evaluated as very strong. A teacher who didn't have classroom management problems in class was able to put more effort on work than a teacher who struggled with classroom manage-ment problems. It seems that it is challenging to recover from stress related to classroom management problems and this stress effects working life as well as personal life. The teachers used several methods to advance classroom management and to interfere with classroom management problems. The reasons for the problems were considered by most of the teachers as student-related. The teachers wished for more effort by schools on advancing teachers' well-being and classroom management. Serious and long-lasting problems could be prevented by advancing teachers' well-being. This study offers viewpoints for current and future teachers and others interested in the subject.
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(2020)Purpose of the study. During the past few years, there has been quite little research on classroom management in Finland. Based on international research, it is known that preventive practices, such as positive teacher–student relationships and motivational teaching, are found important by students and teachers. However, some differences can be found in students' and teachers' views and in their ways of explaining the underlying factors of disruptive situations. This study is a phenomenographic type of study, the purpose of which is to study students' and teachers' views of factors that influence a peaceful and functional learning environment and successful classroom management in the Finnish school context. Methods. The interviews were conducted in Helsinki with three primary school teachers and one secondary school teacher who teach in different schools and five sixth-graders from one school and seven ninth-graders from the other school. The teachers were interviewed individually, the students in groups of 2–4 students. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews. The data was analyzed by searching for similar and frequent meanings and creating categories of descriptions. Findings and conclusions. According to both students and teachers, successful classroom management is enhanced by the teacher's skills to manage classroom activities democratically but assertively, the teacher's positive and appreciative attitude to students, good teaching and parents' support. In contrast to previous research, both students and teachers acknowledged their own responsibility in creating a peaceful and functional learning environment. However, the teacher's role is highlighted in students' and teachers' views. According to the results of this study, the educational partnership between the teacher and the parents, and the teacher's communication skills in classroom management should be promoted to enhance successful classroom management. The requirements to meet the needs of the students with special education needs should also be fulfilled.
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(2018)According to previous studies, teachers work has changed and has become more intense. It requires more diverse knowledge and skills from teachers than before. Because of inclusion and integration the school classes are more heterogenic. Teachers reports of different discipline and classroom management problems are increasing. The objective of this study was to understand how teachers and principles create and maintain classroom discipline and what are their options to act when someone or something threatens students right to study in a safe learning environment. They were also asked if they are pleased with their authorization to act in these situations. The data of this qualitative study consists of interwievs of five teachers, two principals and one special education teacher. The interviewes were semi-structured. Also three letters to the editor in Helsingin Sanomat magasin were used as a stimulus during the interviews. The data was analyzed by using directed content analysis. The results show that discipline consist of the interaction between the teacher, the student and the subject. Teacher plays a key role as a person who builds discipline and manages different types of disruption in it. Teachers and principals are mostly pleased with their authorization and feel that they have what they need to success in classroom management. However, they feel that students also have an independent affect on the classroom environment especially if there are too many students that have different needs or difficulties to manage school. That’s why students needs should be taken into consideration while forming groups. Interviewees also agreed that schools have too little resources to prevent or solve problems that threat discipline. Because of too few resources the student that have special needs but are ingrated in the normal classes don’t get the help and support that they need to learn and that they are entitled to. The teachers and principles also hoped that the schools would have the resouses to hire more professionals of different fields to the schools so that the co-operation of multiple professionals would help to support different students comprehensively.
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(2023)Taustamusiikkia opiskelun ja oppimisen tukena on tutkittu pitkään. Tutkimusten fokuksissa ja menetelmissä on ollut isoja eroja, ja tutkimustulokset taustamusiikin hyödyllisyydestä opiskelun ja erilaisten kognitiivisia kykyjä vaativien tehtävien tukena ovatkin olleet ristiriitaisia. Osa tuloksista on viitannut siihen, että musiikista on ollut hyötyä vaikkapa oppimisen tai keskittymisen kannalta, osassa tulokset ovat olleet päinvastaisia eli musiikki on saattanut enemmänkin häiritä kuin tukea opiskelua. Osassa tutkimuksista on päädytty siihen, että musiikilla ei ole ollut suurempaa vaikutusta opiskeluun tai sen tuloksiin. Tämä pro gradu -työ on laadullinen, etnografinen kenttätyö, jossa tutkittiin taustamusiikin käyttöä alakoulun oppitunneilla. Tutkimus toteutettiin helsinkiläisen koulun kahdella eri oppiasteella: 1. ja 6. luokalla. Luokkien oppitunneilla soitettiin taustamusiikkia, jolla pyrittiin tukemaan 1) lasten keskittymistä, 2) luokan työrauhaa ja 3) viihtyisyyttä. Tutkimusmenetelminä käytettiin perinteisiä etnografisia tiedonkeruumenetelmiä: haastattelua, kirjallisia kyselyitä, havainnointia sekä päiväkirjan pitämistä. Tarkoitus oli lasten, opettajien ja tutkijan omien kokemusten kautta kerätä tietoa siitä, miten ja minkälaista taustamusiikkia lasten oppitunneilla kannattaa käyttää. Vastaavaa tutkimusta on toteutettu aiemmin lähinnä kasvatustieteiden alalla. Myös musiikkitieteellistä näkemystä tarvitaan erityisesti sen takia, että aiemmassa taustamusiikkitutkimuksissa musiikin valintaa, tyyliä ja käyttöä ei ole avattu siinä määrin, että musiikin roolia tutkimustuloksissa pystyttäisiin jälkikäteen kunnolla arvioimaan. Tämä tutkimus pyrkii omalta osaltaan lisäämään nimenomaan musiikkikeskeistä ymmärrystä aiheesta ja tarjoamaan enemmän tietoa siitä, minkälainen ja millä tavalla soitettu musiikki pystyy tukemaan lasten oppimiskokemusta ja opettajan työtä oppitunneilla. Saadut tulokset tukevat taustamusiikin käyttöä oppitunneilla. Tuloksissa eritellään, minkälaisia asioita kannattaa ottaa huomioon, jos musiikkia haluaa hyödyntää lukuaineiden opetuksen taustalla ja sen tukena.
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(2017)Aim. The purpose of this study was to examine teachers' conceptions on classroom management, their experiences and ways in getting involved in classroom management problems, preventing these problems from occurring and what they consider as reasons behind these problems. Classroom management problems are still current phenomena that disturbs learning and teaching. That is why studying this topic is socially current and meaningful. The theoretical framework introduces the "functional school" – model, which closely relates to classroom management issues and concepts such as interaction skills and tries to explain reasons behind classroom management problems. The study concentrates on teachers' concepts and procedures based on their own experiences in getting involved and prevent classroom management problems from occurring. The aim is to add understanding of the examined phenomenon, identify and develop ways to get involved in classroom management problems. Methods. The study was conducted as a qualitative research and the manner of approach was fenomenographic. The fenomenographic approach used is appropriate, because this study focuses on ordinary day thinking by teachers on conceptions and experiences regarding the topic at hand. Ten classroom teachers from elementary schools around the metropolitan area of Helsinki participated in this study. The material was collected with a questionnaire that included open questions. The questions were derived from scientific literature and previous studies on classroom management problems. Results. The findings from this study suggest that teachers define classroom management in a similar manner. All the teachers taking part in the study had experienced classroom management problems in their classes and a majority have had situations where intervening to violent behavior was necessary. The teachers had various ways to prevent and get involved in classroom management problems. According to the teachers, the reasons for classroom management problems come mainly from the home situations of students, which highlights the importance of school and home collaboration in the prevention of classroom management problems.
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(2024)New open learning environments have become more common in Finnish school con-struction over the past decade. Open learning environments are thought to offer opportunities for increasing students' self-directedness, group-based and active learning, and co-teaching. However, the effects of open spaces on learning and classroom management have not been thoroughly researched yet. Media reports have been critical of the noise in open schools, raising concerns about the burden on teachers and students. In this study, I examine the practices of classroom management in elementary education within an open learning environment. This includes how teachers prevent disturbances in the classroom, the types of disturbances that occur during the lessons, and the corrective practices the teachers use to address disturbances in an open learning space. I also explore the teachers' perspectives on the benefits and challenges of open spaces from the standpoint of classroom management. The research material consists of ethnographic observation data focused on two first grade elementary school classes and their two teachers, who partially work as co-teachers. In addition to the observation data, the study includes interviews with the teachers of these classes. The data was collected in November-December 2023 over three school days and analyzed through content analysis. The study found that in classroom management, the emphasis was on preventive practices against disturbances, including routines and structures, positive feedback and motivation, variation in teaching and learning methods, and the teacher's presence. Different methods supported each other and were integrated into the teachers' work. Classroom disturbances were minimal, with the most typical being speaking without permission or making extra movement or noise. The teachers consistently addressed disturbances with various corrective practices, such as a gentle touch and eye contact, and by mentioning the pupil's name, and having a private conversation with them. Teachers thought that open learning environments provided opportunities for versatile teaching methods, functionality, and physical activity, but if the use of space is not practiced with the pupils, the stimuli caused by the space can pose challenges to classroom management. It is important to keep different types of learners in mind while developing future learning environments. In elementary education, it is also crucial that the pupils have their own safe place or seat in the school.
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(2016)Purpose of this research was to find out participant's apprehensions and experiments of the Open University course Work peace to class held during summer 2012. Also the experience of signification and effectivity to their daily working life was studied. With this research was also collected information of the participant's experience of the work peace and increase of the work peace or its change with increase of use for different interaction methods after participating to this course. Earlier researches have shown that people, who have participated to this interaction course, have improved their interaction and emotion skills to create better learning environment to their classes (Talvio 2014). To this research there where 13 people with different back round, who participated to the Work peace to class course. In this group were included teachers, students, assistants and instructors. Qualitative research material was collected from volunteer participants with e-form which included open questions. Volunteers were asked to reflect their own experiences to these questions nine months after participating Work peace course. Collected research material was analyzed by using the qualitative content analyzes. Gathered results shown that people who participate to Work peace to class course mainly told benefit from this course and have afterword focused more on their selves and other interaction impactors on different interaction situations. Participant referred on their answers to Gordon's (2006) interaction models especially on I-message and active listening. Answers shown that on the course introduced interaction methods required training and commitment to work in real life. Results also pointed out that taking these methods on action were experienced challenging. Alternatively on some answers was pointed out that participants felt their working environment and work well-being as well as self-esteem increased by quantity and quality ways after participating to the course.
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(2015)The goal of this study is to find out how class teachers define an ideal working environment in a classroom, how they maintain this ideal working environment and how they react when it's disturbed. An ideal working environment is something every class teacher has to deal with in their job and it plays a great role in it. There's no absolute definition to what an ideal working environment actually is and every teacher creates the definition themselves. In this study knowledge about class teachers' definitions of the term was assembled in a configuration where the interviewed class teachers were experts of their own teacher being and their educational philosophy. The aim was to gather answers from class teachers without making any generalizations depending on the answers. Eight class teachers were interviewed for this study on the area of Uusimaa. Six of them have graduated within the last five years and two of them over 20 years ago. The interviewed teachers were chosen randomly for the interviews. In this study it occurred that the definitions for an ideal working environment that the teachers defined bore a resemblance to one another, even though the theme isn't discussed in the teacher education at the university. It seems that the atmosphere in the classroom plays an important role in the formation of the ideal working environment and so does the teacher's attitude. The teachers have various ways to prevent issues that can disturb the ideal working environment they have built in their classroom, to maintain it and to react to the disturbances. The teachers have taken many of the measures into their repertoire after having heard or read about them elsewhere.
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(2019)For many teachers, classroom management is one of the biggest challenges at school. The importance of classroom management in learning is considered essential, so it is important for the teacher to plan their teaching to support it. The purpose of this Master's thesis was to find out how classroom teachers can work to prevent and deal with discipline problems. The goal of this thesis was to increase my own professional skills and understanding of the subject, because it is so important in everyday school life. The approach of this research was a qualitative case study. The participants were four classroom teachers working in a primary school. I used both semi-structured theme interviewing and observing as data collection methods. I observed the lessons of each teacher for one school day. During the same day, I also interviewed the teacher I observed. I recorded the interviews so I could transcribe the material for analysis. In the analysis of the material, I used a theory-based content analysis. The classroom teachers prevented discipline problems using a variety of methods, which were divided into five different categories: structure, anticipation, quality of teaching, positive atmosphere, and safe authority. Teachers consider the prevention of discipline problems extremely valuable. When dealing with discipline problems, teachers' ways of working were divided into four different categories: non-verbal means, verbal means, sanctions and support from the work community. Teachers prefer using non-verbal means, but they also use verbal means and various sanctions when necessary. In addition, support from the work community seems to be relevant. The results of this thesis give teachers ideas and theoretical knowledge about preventing and dealing with discipline problems at school.
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(2023)Objectives. The aim of this study is to examine students' experiences of co-teaching in general education classrooms and to investigate how their experiences correspond to the teacher experiences found in co-teaching research. The research objective is to examine students' experiences of co-teaching in a case study classroom and to reflect them on the student benefits identified by teachers in co-teaching research. My research questions are the following: 1. What kind of experiences did students have with co-teaching in the case study classroom? 2. How do students' experiences of co-teaching correspond to teachers' experiences? Methods. I will carry out the study as a case study, where I aim to answer my research questions through previous studies and a student survey. The teacher research material consists of peer-reviewed Finnish studies on co-teaching and two doctoral dissertations. I will investigate students' experiences through a questionnaire where they are asked to respond to statements about co-teaching based on their own experiences. The voices of a few students were brought out in the research through thinking aloud. They spoke out loud while filling out the questionnaire and justified their decisions out loud. The thinking aloud was recorded and transcribed. First, I will explain what co-teaching is and how it has evolved. The second part of my thesis is a survey conducted through my case study on fifth graders' experiences with co-teaching. The central concept of the thesis is co-teaching, which also brings a new perspective to students' experiences of studying in a co-teaching classroom. Results and conclusions. The research results are divided into sections 5.1 Support, 5.2 Social and Interactional Situations, and 5.3 Peaceful Learning Environment. In studies of teacher ex-periences, the benefits for students identified include easy access to support, development of social and interactional skills, and enabling better learning environment through co-teaching. Co-teaching is not a straightforward or standardized model of operation, which is why the re-sults of teacher research also depend largely on how co-teaching has been implemented. This, as well as the subjectivity of student research, are also likely to be reasons why there is not much student research. The benefits of co-teaching for students identified by teachers are not fully confirmed through student surveys, but similarities can also be found in the research. Therefore, co-teaching can be seen as a beneficial model of operation for students when im-plemented correctly.
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(2023)There have been many studies concerning the organization and management in classrooms and the disturbances that violate it. Most of them, however, have been done from the point of view of teachers. The goal of this study is to bring out the views of the pupils on this subject. This study aims to find out more information for the teachers on, how the students think the classroom disturbances could be reduced and what can the teachers do to improve classroom management. This study was done as a qualitive study. The material used in the study has been collected by interviewing ten ninth grade students. In the interviews, the students were asked different questions concerning classroom management and disturbances with an aspect of the role of a teacher involved. The material was then analysed using data-driven content analysis focusing on the views of classroom management. The results were formed from consistent themes found from the material, from which the researcher formed the main categories. The students brought up the usage of phones, talking with classroom friends and extra disturbances (for example, extra personnel in the classroom) as the main causes of classroom disturbances. The students showed that they understand their role in the cause of classroom disturbances but underlined the role of the teacher in their answers, as the key to a peaceful classroom. Teachers were expected to be clear with their rules and be justful in their actions which were aspects that the students respected. Results showed that the students felt that the classroom is more peaceful when the teacher has planned the lesson to match the students’ needs. Results also showed that teacher-student relationship and classroom atmosphere have an impact on the peace of the classroom.
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