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Nov 12, 2024
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ED 130 Comprehensive Classroom Management Lecture Hours: 3 Credits: 3
Provides current theory and methodology for managing small and large groups of students so that students choose to be productively involved in instructional activities. Covers the four major factors or skill areas of effective classroom management: 1) understanding students’ personal/psychological and learning needs, 2) establishing positive adult-student and student-student relationships, 3) implementing instructional methods that facilitate optimal learning, and 4) using organizational and group management methods that maximize positive student behavior and learning.
Prerequisite: Placement into WR 115 (or higher), or completion of WR 090 (or higher) with a grade of C or better; or consent of instructor. Student Learning Outcomes:
- Compare and contrast the management philosophy of the decades from the 50s through the 90s.
- Describe the social and school factors which influence student behaviors.
- Use assessment skills to identify the goal of the misbehavior and identify what constitutes misbehavior.
- Apply criteria to evaluate the quality of a teacher-student relationship.
- Assess a local school for school climate and locate and review the management philosophy of a local school.
- Evaluate students’ academic needs in regards to goals of misbehavior.
- Develop productive student behavior by defining and teaching rules and procedures.
- Describe preventative as well as resolution strategies for misbehavior.
- Engage students in critical thinking and problem solving strategies that encourage them to take appropriate actions.
- Define strategies for using appropriate language for prevention and for dealing with misbehaving students.
- Evaluate students’ learning styles.
- Identify situational factors in various communication contexts and analyze own communication choices in specific communications encounters with students, parents and staff.
- Identify strategies for establishing classroom partnerships with families.
- Identify and use active listening skills.
- Respond to verbal and non-verbal messages and explain how cultural differences alter communication.
Content Outline
- History and Philosophies of Classroom Management
- Social and School Factors Influencing Behavior
- School Climate
- Teacher-Student Relationships
- School Discipline Policies
- Preventative Management Strategies
- Effective Communication With Disruptive Students
- Goals of Misbehavior
- Learning Styles
- Local Reading Programs
- Reading Software
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