Teachers’ Strategies to Create Effective Classroom Management in English Teaching at SMP Negeri 1 Bantaeng

Abstract

This research was descriptive qualitative research that aimed to describe teachers’ strategies to create effective classroom management, to find out the challenges faced by the teacher in classroom management and to analyze the effective classroom management applied in English Teaching at SMP Negeri 1 Bantaeng. An English teacher and the VIII grade (VIIIc class) students at SMP Negeri 1 Bantaeng served as the study's subjects. For this study, observation, interviewing, and documentation served as the data-gathering methods. The study's findings demonstrated that the teacher’s strategies to create effective classroom management were classified into five categories. Specifically, the physical design of the classroom, which includes the seating arrangement, rules and routines, relationship between teacher and student, engaging and motivating instruction, and discipline. The challenges faced by English teachers were classroom facilities and student discipline. From this research, it can be concluded that the strategies created by English teachers are quite good and effective. Where teachers provide a comfortable and positive learning environment and are able to foster good interactions with students so that students can learn in class enthusiastically.