8-6 A Study on Upper Elementary School Homeroom Teachers' perception of and Strategies for Handling Students' External Behavioral Problems.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the perception of elementary school teachers for students with external behavioral problems. In addition, the study also investigated strategies that teachers developed to handle these issues. Ten teachers were interviewed and one teacher has been involved in an observation process.The main findings were as follows:
1. Elementary school teachers were suffered by students with external behavioral problems. These problems included defiance, willful disobedience, and disruption. Aggression and fighting behaviors.
2. These external behaviors may cause teachers felt pressure, fatigued, and even burnout ..
3. Teachers tended to have a negative perception for students' external problem behaviors.
4. Teachers' strategies for students' external behavior problems included: preaching, explaining, advising, notifying parents, time-out, and punishment.
Applications for the results of the study and suggestions for teachers and future study were also provided.

Keywords
teaching, perception, coping strategies, external behavioral problems

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