Violence against Preparatory School Teachers at Cairo Governorate

violence against teachers is a universal problem of the 21st century. Higher rates of violence directed toward teachers were associated with disorganized school structures, negative school climates, lack of administrative and collegial social supports, and high residential crowding. Aim: to assess frequency and causes of school violence against school teachers and develop a guideline to prevent school violence against teachers. Design: a descriptive correlational research design was utilized. Setting: data were collected from preparatory schools for boys at EL-Sayeda Zeinab educational directorate. Sample: a convenient sample of all teachers in preparatory schools for boys at EL-Sayeda Zeinab educational directorate who exposed to violence was included in the study. Tool for data collection: one tool was used in this study; School teacher structured interviewing Sheet that has two parts: 1) teacher's personal and work data: age, sex, educational level, job category and duration of work. 2) Violence data: types of violence, source of violence, frequency of exposure to violence and occurrence of injury, causes of school violence and work environment. Results: study results revealed that, 76.3% of the teachers were males, their mean age was 39.79 6.9 year and all the teachers were married. Regarding mean work duration it was 13.92 6.97 year. Results revealed that, 52.6% of teachers were exposed to verbal violence and 38.2% of them were exposed to both physical and verbal violence. In relation to the frequency of violence, 67.1% of teachers were exposed to violence less than five times while 32.9 % reported exposure to violence five times. Regarding the sources of violence, 64.9% of the teachers were exposed to violent acts by students and 19.7% of them were exposed to violence from student's parents. Only 13.6% of teachers reported exposure to physical injury and 33.8% officially reported after exposure to violence. As for the causes of violence results revealed that, 87.3% of the students developed a violent behavior probably as a result of overcrowded classes, 95.2% as a result of large family size and 82% absence of trained security person in the schools. Conclusion: the common causes of violence were; overcrowded classes, large family size, and absence of trained security person. Recommendations: based on the study results the following recommendations were suggested; this study should be carried out on a large sample of teachers and student's perspectives on violence against teachers.