Behavior Principles and Creating Inclusive Environments

Catalog description

This course coincides with the start of the yearlong clinical internship. Students are expected to bring their prior academic work and pre-clinical experience to a ‘real world’ environment. A single planned lesson, in a content-specific methods course, is now replaced with expectations for critical, on-going instructional planning, engagement, and assessment. The knowledge, skills, and dispositions to support all learners, but particularly students with disabilities, English learners, and marginalized students, is essential to the internship. Within this course, an emphasis on the development of respectful learning environments, and their component parts, form the foundation for study. Examples of these components include behavior principles, culturally responsive teaching, and CEC high leverage practices. Through a deep analysis of their learners, students will develop the practice of consistently planning from that perspective, thus proactively engaging the strategies and resources to create inclusive learning environments.