Nov 24, 2024  
2019-2020 Academic Catalog 
    
2019-2020 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Add to Bookmarks (opens a new window)

AE 4245 - Classroom Management


Credits: 3

Field experience hours: 20 clock hours in a public or private school setting. The goal of this course is to enable teacher candidates to design, organize, and facilitate positive learning environments. Students will observe, document, devise, and discuss consistent teacher behaviors that encourage high standards of student involvement in classroom activities. Students will investigate how effective management skills and high quality instruction can facilitate learning environments where all students can learn and succeed. Proficiencies are determined by the candidate’s ability to plan and design clear expectations about appropriate and inappropriate behavior, efficient use of time, room organization, dissemination of materials, cleanup, and project storage. Study includes the teaching cycle, positive characteristics of classroom managers, and prescriptions for effective management of the classroom and instruction. Legal rights, due process, and school governance augment the course objectives.

Prerequisites: AE 3220 - Teaching in a Multicultural Environment ; AE 3240 - Reading in the Content Area ; must be an Art Education major

Course Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will learn strategies foster a predictable learning environment in the classroom in which each student has a positive, nurturing relationship with caring adults and peers.
  • Students will learn how to demonstrate a commitment to and respect for diversity, while working toward common goals as a community and as a country.
  • Students will learn how to engage students as individuals with unique interests and strengths.
  • Students will learn to adapt their teaching for the benefit of all students, including those with special needs across a range of ability levels.
  • Students will learn to create a learning environment characterized by acceptable student behavior, efficient use of time and appropriate intervention strategies.
  • Students will learn current K-12 developmental science, the ways in which learning takes place and the appropriate levels of intellectual, social and emotional development of their students.
  • Students will learn to advocate for schools and students, partnering with students, families and communities as appropriate.
  • Students will learn high ethical standards in the teaching profession.




Add to Bookmarks (opens a new window)