SOCIOTROPIC TEACHERS VS AUTONOMIC TEACHERS IN TEACHERSTUDENTS RELATIONSHIP IN CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT

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Personality traits of managers and teachers are of great importance for the success of the management issues in all fields
including education and for achieving the success targeted by the institution. In particular, education administrators have a
great responsibility towards teachers, school staff, students and parents outside the school in the educational institution where
he manages. Attitudes and behaviors of school administrators are important in fulfilling these responsibilities and personality
traits determine these attitudes and behaviors. The sociotropic autonomic personality traits of education administrators and
teachers are very important in terms of management in the school environment and are effective in all areas from conducting
school activities to ensuring discipline in the school. In the study we aimed to determine whether sociotropic or autonomic
teachers good at students-teacher relationships in school environment. We applied Sociotropy-Autonomy Scale (SAS) to
determine the personality traits of 25 teachers working in various High Schools. After determining 4 sociotropic and 4
autonomic teachers, we asked a question to their students to find out which personality traits are good at students-teacher
relationship. We reached the conclusion that sociotropic teachers can establish good relations with the students, however the
autonomic ones are lack of communication skills, thus failing to establish effective relationship with the students at school
environment.