CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION

Catalog description

This course will provide the teacher candidate with classroom management skills, including understanding the major theories animating management of student behavior, discussion of effective classroom rules and procedures, school safety, parental involvement, social and emotional learning, and strategies for creating a positive, safe environment to meet the needs of all students. The teacher candidate will increase cultural competency and discover the importance of building positive relationships with studen ts through learning about the diverse needs of students, such as poverty, cultural influences, language barriers, and disabilities, and how they may affect students differently in the classroom. Resources for the identification and referral of students exp eriencing mental health challenges are covered. Research -based strategies and techniques for organizing and managing the classroom as well as character -based classroom management are developed. Fifteen (15) field observation hours are required. This course is ESOL infused.