HANDLING THE TROUBLING KIDS IN CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT IN SCHOOLS

The present Study explored the teaching strategies used by the teachers in dealing with the troubling kids in schools. A questionnaire containing A, B and C parts was used to find out the strategies, best strategies and their implications in the light of psychological theories. Data was collected from 270 Trained Graduate Teachers of government schools of Delhi, India. Responses were depicted in form of tables and pie charts and conclusions were drawn for best strategies,item analaysis of the questionnare was done on the basis stastical methods and found that 'persuading', 'encourage to be normal', 'ask reason and will give punishment accordingly',' lessen his contribution in important activities', 'sometimes make stand on bench', 'keeps him busy in other activities', 'call parents to school' were strategies used by the teachers in the classroom in handling the troubling kids in the schools. The findings of the present study demand that pre-service and in-service programmes for teachers by trained counselors and experts should be arranged. The finding of the objective two are very encouraging that teachers at least think of ideal strategies. But this is another thing that they should adopt a few of them, and have patience to implement this in real classroom situation.