0 to 3 credits
Spring 2026 Recitation Lecture Upper Division
The purpose of this course is to enable you to develop a supportive, challenging, and growth-enhancing classroom community for students in elementary grades. Teachers need insightful understanding and strong skills to create a classroom community that enhances achievement, welcomes diversity, makes effective use of technology, and provides appropriate educational experiences for students with diverse needs, backgrounds, and developmental levels.
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.
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