ECED 430 - Classroom Management

Credits: 5
Variable Credit Course: No

Lecture Hours: 55
Lab Hours: 0
Worksite/Clinical Hours: 0
Other Hours (LIA/Internships): 0

Course Description: Provides the knowledge and skills necessary to implement strategies for managing classrooms, fostering positive relationships with students and families, and creating a safe and inclusive atmosphere for learning. Explore various classroom management techniques and develop the expertise needed to engage learners effectively while promoting self-direction and cooperation.

Prerequisite: ECED 461 with a C or higher.
Meets FQE Requirement: No
Integrative Experience Requirement: No

Student Learning Outcomes

Teach learners interpersonal skills that build the learner’s capacity to work effectively in small and large groups.
Collaborate with learners, families, and mentor teacher to foster a safe, positive learning environment rooted in openness, mutual respect, support, and inquiry.
Collaborate with learners and mentor teacher to establish shared values and expectations, promoting respectful interactions, rigorous academic discussions, and individual and group responsibility for quality work.
Manage the learning environment by utilizing resources of time, space, and attention.
Employ various methods to engage learners in evaluating and adjusting the learning environment.
Communicate in ways that demonstrate respect for diverse cultural backgrounds and perspectives.
Design learning experiences that foster learner self-direction and ownership of learning.
Explain Title 9 reporting requirements.
Describe how to recognize, screen, and respond to emotional or behavioral distress in children, including indicators of possible substance abuse, violence, and youth suicide.
Explain mandatory reporting laws and the signs that abuse or neglect might be occurring.

Course Contents

Interpersonal skills that build the student’s capacity to work effectively in small and large groups.
How to foster a safe, positive learning environment rooted in openness, mutual respect, support, and inquiry.
How to establish shared values and expectations, promoting respectful interactions, rigorous academic discussions, and individual and group responsibility for quality work.
The learning environment and utilizing resources of time, space, and attention.
Various methods to engage learners in evaluating and adjusting the learning environment.
Diverse cultural backgrounds and perspectives and intentionally building learners’ capacity for effective interpersonal communication.
Learning experiences that foster learner self-direction, and ownership of learning.
Title 9 reporting requirements.
Emotional or behavioral distress in children, including indicators of possible substance abuse, violence, and youth suicide.

Instructional Units: 5