EDUC 4128

Exclusion(s): Unavailable to students with credit for EDUC4028. This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge, skills and understanding required to construct and apply alternative methods of classroom management and discipline. Students will examine contemporary approaches to classroom management and discipline, including a consideration of legal, organizational and administrative issues. Students will gain knowledge and skills in this course that contribute to planning, delivering and evaluating teaching. Furthermore, the course will also emphasize ways to promote desired learning outcomes. The course illustrates specific ways to create a classroom that is a safe and comfortable space in which students and teachers with common goals can work successfully together. Students will be introduced to several models of classroom management, with an emphasis on the constructivist model. The major goal of the course is to enable students to comprehend the basic principles and tenets of a number of management approaches and to translate these principles into specific teaching strategies and skills.