Discipline Management and Students Academic Performance in Tanzania: Management Experiences, Rules and Conduct

The concern about students’ achievement has intensified public interest in schools and students’ behavior. In Tanzania for instance, there is an increase of form four leavers with on knowledge on even computing simple and elementary arithmetic mathematics rather than reading consistently. The experience shows that the problem has its trends on the education system, societal and student’s managerial aspects. Discipline management in ordinary secondary school level on the other hand, is very important aspect to improve students’ academic performance, while lack of it usually give rise to a lot of problems such as students’ lack of vision and mission, poor time management to both teachers and students, increase of non attendance and frequently violent behavior among students.This book aims to address variety of mechanisms used to manage students' misconduct and the role of teachers code of professional conduct practiced by teachers. Academic performance of students has been pondered for a long time since quality education to other concern quality academic performance

Haruni J. Machumu has obtained MA degree in education 2011. He has worked as tutor and served as educational programme coordinator to CHRISTA GROUP (T) Ltd. Currently, he is assistant lecturer at the Mzumbe University. His area of expertise ranges from educational management, comparative education and discipline management.