The paper set out to ascertain disruptive behaviours prevalent in pre-tertiary classrooms and teachers' classroom management styles. The cross-sectional descriptive survey study was designed along quantitative paradigm. Professional teachers with more than two years of post-training experience in the classroom qualified to provide data to address the research problem. Data gathering was done via administration of questionnaires. The study unveiled noise making, chatting with others, inattentiveness and harassment as the major disruptive behaviours experienced by the teachers and teacher-centeredness was adopted by majority of the teachers as a classroom management style. The study further evinced differences in the classroom management styles of male and female teachers as well as very experienced, experienced and less experienced teachers. Educational authorities need to retrain teachers in the jurisdiction on appropriate classroom management style.
The research was conducted to unravel the health education offered at the basic schools and the first aid services rendered for the pupils. It was conducted in some enlightened municipalities in the middle belt of Ghana. Cross-sectional descriptive design was employed to guide the conduct of the research. Head teachers and classroom teachers provided data to address the research problem. The research unveiled that the pupils in the schools enjoy health education programmes covering varied health issues albeit inadequate. The research also revealed that first aid is provided for pupils in the schools to cater for minor health conditions, reduce pains and sustain victims till experts come in. The staff however encountered various challenges in performing both health education and first aid services in the schools. It is then essential for educational authorities in the regions to rekindle and redouble their efforts in resourcing basic schools, their head teachers and the teachers empower to deliver these services in the schools.
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