The Learning Environment (formerly Classroom Management)

This course will introduce strategies for creating and supporting a safe, inclusive, learning-focused classroom – a process that begins with effective classroom management. Classroom Management examines how several different components of teaching are integral to creating and maintaining a positive, ethical, equitable, accepting, inclusive, engaging, and safe learning environment. You will explore processes that promote a collaborative community that encourages student voice, leadership, critical inquiry, and self-regulation. In addition, you will establish practices that promote partnerships that value shared responsibility, decision-making, advocacy, and leadership. Course Learning Expectations In this course you will have the opportunity to: explore and summarize different theories of classroom management understand that the teacher has the highest impact on student achievement investigate diagnostic assessments, which are crucial in determining who the learners are in a classroom explore evidence-based instructional strategies that are the foundation for student achievement discover the impact of growth mindset on educators and students design inquiry-based teaching discover equitable and inclusive education is central to student achievement and for creating collaborative classroom communities create dynamic, safe, inclusive, and responsive learning environments design classroom space and layouts create surveys to collect student voice plan and design rich tasks