EDN 570 - Strategies for Classroom Management

This course focuses on developing ways to create positive learning environments for all students. Participants will learn effective instructional and behavioral management strategies and be able to cultivate social competence and academic achievement. Participants will develop the knowledge, training and strategies necessary to administer successful classroom management and discipline for students who exhibit a wide range of behavioral needs and characteristics and will study how to prevent and address discipline problems and how to increase productive student behavior. Participants will be expected to reflect, through personal writing, their personal beliefs regarding effective classroom and school management. They will become skilled at preparing students with special needs for inclusion in a variety of educational situations and will be required to craft a classroom management plan for a student with special needs.

Credits: 3