Use of leadership by teachers to improve classroom discipline in senior high schools

Teacher training institutions have provided excellent textbooks on educational psychology, school administration, classroom subject matter, and numerous topics involved in school teaching. Volumes of material have been studied by student teachers in their research for knowledge. Teacher training institutions, however, have not fully understood the problems of classroom discipline as it confronted a beginning teacher. A textbook as big as the largest educational psychology textbook, should have been written on the subject of classroom discipline. Such a book should have been used in a required course to instruct and guide teachers in the use of leadership. The author's purpose, therefore, has been to develop in this thesis a clear understanding and application of leadership, good behavior, and discipline.