Course Description
Research-based strategies and models managing an equitable and inclusive K-12 learning environments. Social-emotional growth, development, and individual responsibility. Positive interventions and supports, restorative justice, and conflict resolution practices. Prevention of common classroom problems. Effectively work with challenging students. Establishment of safe classroom and school environments to prevent bullying.
Course Learning Outcomes
- Design ways to establish, maintain, and monitor safe, academically interconnected, inclusive learning environments by using an array of positive interventions and supports ensuring each student is treated fairly and respectfully by adults and peers, thrives through social-emotional growth, and expresses appropriate developmental and individual responsibility.
- Create projects to examine legal, ethical, professional and effective practices needed to establish inclusive learning environments designed to be physically and emotionally healthy, address bullying, intolerance and harassment among students, challenging behaviors, families, community resources and educational/school supportive resources.
- Develop procedures to promote productive student learning by managing the implementation of classroom rules, classroom traffic flow, paperwork, and mutual behavioral norms to facilitate positive interactions that reflect diversity and are culturally responsive.
- Develop a positive learning environment to establish a diverse classroom culture representing an equitable and inclusive learning community with high expectations and appropriate support, student participation, classroom rules and consequences, organizational procedures for instruction, and specific procedures for transitions.
- Design plans for promoting student’s academic and social emotional growth by using instructional planning, learning technologies, behavioral supports, Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS), Universal Design for Learning (UDL), conflict resolution, restorative justice, and similar group practices.
