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Education QUESTION #6880
Question 1
A teacher who adopts a 'permissive' classroom management approach is MOST at risk of which of the following outcomes?
  • Stunting students' independent thinking by over-directing their activities
  • Losing classroom authority as students fill unstructured time with off-task behavior✔️
  • Creating excessive test anxiety due to high academic pressure
  • Fostering unhealthy competition among students for teacher approval
Correct Answer Explanation
Permissiveness — the extreme end of the management spectrum — promotes maximum student freedom in the belief that students will naturally regulate themselves. However, when the expectation of responsibility is not continuously reinforced, students may fill the freedom with disruptive behavior, causing the teacher to lose authority and classroom order to collapse.