Classroom Cultures, Community, and Climate

Catalog description

This course integrates the ways in which middle childhood students learn and develop with the essential knowledge, skills, and lenses teachers need in order to build and nurture a positive and inclusive community of learners. Topics include increasing understanding and embracing of cultural differences, and focusing on why and how to promote effective and reciprocal relationships with students, families, colleagues, and the community in which the school is placed. Students will have a field experience in grades 4-9. Prerequisites: Admission to and retention in middle childhood education cohort (part of the fall semester middle childhood methods block) including successful completion of early field block courses and three courses in each content area. Co-requisites: TCE 346M, EDP 301M , and two of the following: TCE 429M, TCE 436M, TCE 439M, TCE 441M.