The Correlation between Self- efficacy and Classroom Management of New Iraqi EFL Secondary School Teachers

Abstract

Teachers' classroom management is one of the most essential factors that influences students' learning, so it is crucial to know the level of teachers' classroom management ability. Moreover, it is very important to determine teachers' identity in their job, so it is very important to know more about teachers' psychological factors and their correlation with teachers' teaching ability. Accordingly, this study focuses to investigate the correlational state between self-efficacy level and classroom management ability among new Iraqi EFL secondary school teachers. Data is collected from 200  new Iraqi EFL secondary school teachers. They include 100 males and 100 females whom are examined by using two adopted questionnaires (Shah, 2023) .The findings indicate that  new Iraqi EFL secondary school teachers  are commonly characterized  with a high self- efficacy level. Moreover, male  new Iraqi EFL secondary school teachers have a high ability  in managing classrooms, while females have an average level of classroom management. However, new Iraqi EFL secondary school teachers in general have a high level of classroom management. furthermore, there is high correlation between self- efficacy and classroom management of new Iraqi EFL secondary school teachers and it is more among females than males