Welcome to ED 560 - - The learning environment that you create with your students is critical to their development, well-being, learning, and success. It is also critical to your own well-being and sense of self-efficacy as an educator.
This 2-credit (30 classroom hours), graded course places classroom climate in a socio-political and justice-oriented context by focusing on understanding students’ personal, social, and academic needs, creating optimal teacher-student and peer relationships, and co-creating norms and procedures that support democratic learning communities. This course critiques coercive methods aimed at achieving obedience and explores schoolwide and classroom-specific practices that draw on student diversity as a resource rather than impediment. We will examine culturally responsive and inclusive teaching methods that prevent discipline problems, promote flow, sustain collaborations with parents and other educators, and enhance agency and transparency while maintaining accountability. We will practice the inclusion of a care ethic and social emotional learning as essential components to a justice-based classroom climate and focus on a variety of ways that classroom community is created.
This 2-credit (30 classroom hours), graded course places classroom climate in a socio-political and justice-oriented context by focusing on understanding students’ personal, social, and academic needs, creating optimal teacher-student and peer relationships, and co-creating norms and procedures that support democratic learning communities. This course critiques coercive methods aimed at achieving obedience and explores schoolwide and classroom-specific practices that draw on student diversity as a resource rather than impediment. We will examine culturally responsive and inclusive teaching methods that prevent discipline problems, promote flow, sustain collaborations with parents and other educators, and enhance agency and transparency while maintaining accountability. We will practice the inclusion of a care ethic and social emotional learning as essential components to a justice-based classroom climate and focus on a variety of ways that classroom community is created.
- Teacher: Howard Yank