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This course is focused on teaching prospective teachers essential skills and strategies for managing individual student and group behavior in the PK-4 classroom. You will learn specific techniques and you must demonstrate the use of these techniques to successfully pass the course. Students will have opportunities to practice and demonstrate basic classroom management skills in class and through targeted assignments. This course is designed to help teachers understand why young children behave as they do in the classroom. Major concepts such as the drive to belong, private logic, birth order and Goals of Misbehavior, logical consequences, reflective listening, questioning skills and class meetings will be explored in detail. Additionally, we will develop the link between the way adults respond to misbehaving children and how it will either feed or extinguish the problem. This course is a comprehensive study of understanding that self disciplined children come from being in relationship with self-disciplined adults. It examines adult response patterns to children's misbehavior on three levels - adult thinking/attitudes, adult language, and adult actions. There will be a follow-up (1.5 credit) version of this course during your student teaching semester, as part of the Graduate Seminar course, aimed at coaching you through handling classroom management during your student teaching.

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"Build Relationships with Your Students."
“We’re educators. We’re born to make a difference,” says Rita Pierson, who has spent 40 very dedicated years as an educator. The difference she refers to is not only helping students learn, but being a positive force in their lives. In her TED Talk, she calls on teachers to build relationships with their students, no matter how challenging that may be. Pierson shares examples of gestures large and small to bolster students’ self-esteem, down to how she marked a quiz that a student had failed.
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Creative ways to get kids to thrive in school
To get young kids to thrive in school, we need to do more than teach them how to read and write -- we need to teach them how to manage their emotions, says educator Olympia Della Flora. In this practical talk, she shares creative tactics she used to help struggling, sometimes disruptive students -- things like stopping for brain breaks, singing songs and even doing yoga poses -- all with her existing budget and resources. "Small changes make huge differences, and it's possible to start right now ... You simply need smarter ways to think about using what you have, where you have it," she says.
No such thing as naughty: Why we need to rethink challenging behaviour
Challenging behaviour is a form of communication. If the teacher is able to become someone who is able to understand what is being communicated, their classroom and the lives of the vulnerable pupils in it will be transformed.
Students need to lead the classroom, not teachers
A classroom revolution is overdue, not only for improving learning but for the health of our democracy. In this inspirational talk Katherine Cadwell shares how after 30 years in education she completely flipped her classroom and teaching style. The Harkness method puts the focus of learning back onto the students: teaching them how to ask critical questions and the skills of civil discourse.

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