EDU2133 Discipline in School II
This course will aid students to identify and evaluate problem behaviors, cultivate evidence-based mediations to reduce problem behaviors and boost pro-social behaviors to enrich academic outcomes. The content of this course is apt for assorted supervision roles dealing with a wide scope of ages of children. This course educates on ways to successfully guide and correct children, concentrating on how adults can enable positive pro-social and self-management skills.
You will bolster your perception of the relationships among classroom environment, classroom behavior and learning. You will increase awareness of disciplinary and supervision standards and their connections to teacher and student control. Some time will be expended on focusing on valuable decision making about classroom management.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
The objective of this course is to familiarize students with procedures, tactics, and skills used in management of classrooms. Specific consideration is given to transforming significant research and theory into classroom practice and to pondering on and grasp how a teacher’s conduct and/or instructional tactics, styles, and techniques influence student performance and learning. By the end of this course, all students should:
- Obtain practical behavior strategies to inhibit classroom management concerns
- Produce effective management suggestions centered on classroom observation
- Compare and contrast numerous discipline/management styles
- Concoct a thorough classroom management strategy
- Display the capacity to teach a lesson
- Build a management routine for varied populations and instructional conditions (i.e., ADHD, gifted students, ELL)
- Appreciate that not one application of discipline will work in every situation
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Full-CLC Students
“A CLC award signifies that the student has attained the knowledge, (through either prior education or experience), equal to or greater than the student would have learned in a traditional college course.”
“Based upon your CLC award, physical classroom attendance is not required; however, you will be required to successfully pass a final exam for each course.”
Based upon your HESEAP Application, you have received full-CLC for this course; therefore, this is a test-out course which does not include traditional education on the subject.
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- (2017) A Principal (and Mom) on School Discipline. Laura Schweizer. Parents. (Online). http://www.parents.com/kids/discipline/strategies/a-principal-and-mom-on-school-discipline-/
- (2014) Rethinking Challenging Kids-Where There's a Skill There's a Way | J. Stuart Ablon | TEDxBeaconStreet. Tedx Talks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuoPZkFcLVs
- (2014) The Surprising Truth About Discipline in Schools: Nick Morrison, Forbes. (Online) https://www.forbes.com/sites/nickmorrison/2014/08/31/the-surprising-truth-about-discipline-in-schools/#3451bdbe3f83
- (2014) What Makes a Great School Leader? Elena Aguilar https://www.edutopia.org/blog/qualities-of-great-school-leader-elena-aguilar
- (2012)Keys to Effective Behavior Management. Team TVs. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0JzEgEq3U8
- (2021) 20 Classroom Management Strategies and Techniques https://www.prodigygame.com/main-en/blog/classroom-management-strategies/
- (2020) Research-backed strategies for better classroom management https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_v_G7ub-n0
- (2007) Theories of School Discipline. S J Mohapi. The University of Pretoria. Chapter 2 (PDF) http://www.repository.up.ac.za/bitstream/handle/2263/24822/02chapter2.pdf?sequence=3
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