Teaching and Managing in the Urban Classroom

Catalog description

This course focuses on teaching and managing K-12 classrooms in urban settings. Through four weeks of on-line instruction, students will learn key principles of classroom management and examine foundational issues that can underpin educational inequality, such as racial, ethnic and linguistic diversity, poverty, high student mobility and frequent teacher turnover. The course culminates with the Philadelphia Urban Seminar, a two-week residential experience (mediated by Rider University faculty) that includes ten days of intensive field experience in central Philadelphia classrooms, weekday seminars with faculty, and historical/cultural experiences and community service project activities on the weekend.