Classroom Community and Management

Catalog description

This course will provide students with the theoretical and practical bases for developing classroom communities that are grounded in the concepts of caring, mutual respect, trust, safety, and valuing each member of the community. Such classrooms required teachers to model these attributes and behaviors and to teach them directly to their students, as systematically as they would teach literacy, mathematics, and science. Students will study the research and writings of educators who espouse cooperation in place of competition and who eschew "classroom management" in favor of "caring communities". They will have opportunities to develop key aspects of caring classrooms, and they will observe the classrooms of teachers who practice these principles in their daily teaching.