CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT

This study was to find out the challenges of the covid-19 safety precautions on classroom management in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo state. Three research questions guided the study and eight government secondary school were sampled for the study. The instrument used for data collection was a structured questionnaire, which was developed and administered to hundred (100) secondary school teachers in Oredo local government. The Data generated from the research questionnaire was analyzed using mean and standard deviation, and the result of the data collected was presented and discussed. The findings revealed that the introduction of the covid-19 safety precautions in the classroom has greatly influenced its management. The covid-19 safety precautions has its challenges on the classroom, which first is the ability of teachers and students to
adapt to the new normal which came up suddenly due to the outbreak of the corona
virus, the lack of adequate infrastructures, water facilities, teachers in some schools, poor means of ventilation, inadequate funding to be able to provide the required safety
materials such as nose mask, disinfectant, soap, chairs, cleaning materials and inadequate teaching staff.