This course will introduce strategies for creating and supporting a safe, inclusive, learning-focused classroom—a process that begins with effective classroom management. Classroom Management examines how several different components of teaching are integral to creating and maintaining a positive, ethical, equitable, accepting, inclusive, engaging, and safe learning environment. You will explore processes that promote a collaborative community that encourages student voice, leadership, critical inquiry, and self-regulation. In addition, you will establish practices that promote partnerships that value shared responsibility, decision-making, advocacy, and leadership.

Course Learning Expectations

In this course you will have the opportunity to:

• explore and summarize different theories of classroom management
• understand that the teacher has the highest impact on student achievement
• investigate diagnostic assessments, which are crucial in determining who the learners are in a classroom
• explore evidence-based instructional strategies that are the foundation for student achievement
• discover the impact of growth mindset on educators and students
• design inquiry-based teaching
• discover equitable and inclusive education is central to student achievement and for creating collaborative classroom communities
• create dynamic, safe, inclusive, and responsive learning environments
• design classroom space and layouts
• create surveys to collect student voice
• plan and design rich tasks