Predicting the dimensions of elementary students' responsibility based on teachers' disciplinary strategies

Development of responsibility in students is an important goal of the school and teachers' disciplinary strategies can play an important role in achieving or staying within this goal. The present study aims to predict students 'responsibility through teachers' disciplinary strategies in the classroom. To pursue this goal, in the form of a correlational design, 239 members of the statistical population of sixth grade students in Tarom public schools were selected by cluster random sampling. The required data were collected by two questionnaires; Teachers' Discipline Strategies Questionnaire (Lewis, 2001) and Student Responsibility Scale (Lewis, 2001). According to the findings of canonical correlation analysis, a variety of disciplinary strategies are related to the components of responsibility. Involvement in decision - making, Discussion and Hinting are the strongest relationship and are able to predict the level of student responsibility in related matters. To themselves and others. In total, 33% of the variability of accountability variables can be explained by disciplinary strategies. Findings from the application of each disciplinary strategy also indicate that sixth grade teachers use Discussion more often and aggression is less used. In the responsibility variable, the average of individual responsibility (for oneself) was calculated more than social responsibility (for others). finally, It is suggested to elementary teachers to use interactive and positive disciplinary strategies to develop responsible classroom behavior. It is also suggested to teachers in the field of teacher education, to pay special attention to teaching effective discipline in teacher professional empowerment programs.