0 to 3 credits
Fall 2025 Lecture Recitation Upper Division
This course is designed to develop advanced pre-service teachers' skills in recognizing classroom processes and understanding how teachers' beliefs and practices affect secondary students' engagement, learning, and motivation. It focuses on Effective Teaching, what it is, what it looks like, and different ways to enact it in the classroom.
Learning Outcomes1Develop skills for building classroom communities.
2Analyze different approaches to classroom discipline and the effects of those approaches on the cognitive, social, and emotional development of diverse students.
3Develop a personal philosophy of classroom discipline.
4Understand how student diversity, developmental levels, technology, instructional design, room arrangement, and assessment techniques influence the classroom community and climate.
5Develop strategies for effective management of professional time and tasks.
6Learn how to collaborate with colleagues and parents to enhance student learning and development.
7Develop a comprehensive plan for creating and managing the learning environment in a real or simulated teaching situation.
Restrictions
made by Purdue students.