2022-2023 College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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EDU 206 - Relationships in Classroom Settings 3 Credits, 3 Contact Hours 3 lecture periods 0 lab periods
Introduction to basic classroom management principles. Includes management of curriculum, instruction, the physical environment, psychosocial factors, student motivation, and special groups. Also includes a focus on disruptive family involvement, managing student behavior, communication, stress management, and appropriate record keeping.
Information: This class requires 60 hours of volunteering in a local K-8 school. Students must select their site by the first EDU206 class session and must have a fingerprint clearance card and background check before participation. This process could take four weeks (students should check with the school district where they will be volunteering for details).
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Course Learning Outcomes 1. Discuss effective application of professional knowledge to create supportive physical and psychosocial learning environments that foster inclusion, active engagement in learning, self-motivation, dynamic inquiry, positive social interaction, and collaboration.
2. Describe the role and challenges of the professional educator.
3. Identify and describe elements that foster a community of learners in the classroom and how differentiated instruction is supported.
4. Identify, describe, and assess a variety of strategies that support the development of effective and efficient classroom operations.
5. Model a variety of instructional strategies used with direct teaching, facilitated teaching, and computer based teaching. Outline:
- Management Overview
- Purpose of classroom management
- Preparation- before school starts/first days of school
- C.Daily organization/conferences
- D.Curriculum management (mapping, standards, curriculum, thematic units)
- Planning for the school year
- Managing the Physical and Psychosocial Environment
- Floor, wall, shelf, and countertop space; classroom ambience
- Human relation skills and building positive relationships
- Teacher and student responsibilities
- Teacher-student/parent-teacher communication
- Maintaining a positive psychosocial environment
- Working with support staff/communication with colleagues
- Strategies for motivating students (a look at William Glasser, Howard Gardner, Fredric Jones, Spencer Kagan)
- Managing Instruction, Student Behavior, and Student Work
- Direct, facilitative, and computer assisted teaching
- Routines and procedures
- Strategies for correcting students’ work-related problems
- Cooperative/participative discipline techniques and strategies
- Providing assistance and useful feedback
- Review of programs and philosophies (Driekurs, Ginott, Canter, Jones, Glasser, Kyle, Kagan, and Scott)
- Stress assessment and management strategies
- Special Groups
- Intellectual and communicative exceptionality
- Sensory and behavioral exceptionality
- Physical and multiple exceptionality
- Language and family diversity
- Homelessness
- Assessment and Record Keeping
- Key elements of assessment
- Authentic assessment and portfolios
- Rubrics and other tools
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