Classroom Management Essentials
Learn how to manage your classroom and spend more time teaching rather than disciplining
Description
Classroom management is consistently identified as a major concern for teachers. Yet, it is absolutely an essential component of effective teaching. This course helps teachers learn how to effectively manage a classroom. The primary goal of the course is to introduce a practical model for understanding and deconstructing the tasks involved in the process of classroom management and on learning practical, easy to implement strategies that enable teachers to spend more time teaching rather than disciplining!
Specifically, participants in this course will learn:
- Common misconceptions about classroom management
- How to develop effective rules and routines
- The role relationships play in one’s classroom management plan
- Techniques for preventing misbehavior
- Strategies for dealing with minor and more serious misbehavior
- Plus much, much more!
The course is divided into seven chapters. Each chapter begins with a lecture presented by Dr. Tracey Garrett, a specialist in the field of classroom management. Then, each chapter has a self-guided component where participants can review and expand on the material presented in the first lecture at their own pace. Finally, the remaining lectures in each chapter are interviews of teachers at different grade levels offering insight into their practice.
What You Will Learn!
- Students who complete this course will develop the skills necessary to develop a safe, caring and orderly classroom where academic and social-emotional learning can occur.
Who Should Attend!
- This target audience for this class is any novice or veteran teacher, supervisor, mentor or coach, and principals who would like to learn about effective classroom management.