We have all seen teachers who seem to effortlessly bring out the best in their students. It may seem as if these teachers were born with an innate skill, allowing them to manage their classrooms with ease; however, effective classroom managers are made, not born. In Classroom Management: Building Effective Relationships: An ASCD PD Online^® Course, you’ll investigate the various facets of classroom management. You will examine some common approaches to classroom management to find the one that is best for you, laying the foundation for your classroom management plan. You will then build on the foundation by examining the student-teacher relationship and uncovering the strategies that will support your approach to classroom management. Finally, you will learn how all of these pieces can fit together to create a cohesive, schoolwide model.

Course Objectives

• Recognize differing perspectives of student/teacher authority.
• Select a preferred classroom management approach from those presented in the module.
• Analyze how meaningful rules and procedures can affect classroom behavior.
• Develop rules and procedures for your classroom to match your classroom management approach.
• Recognize the relationship between engaging lessons & activities and classroom management.
• Evaluate whether lessons include an appropriate amount of interactivity or interest to positively affect classroom behavior.
• Evaluate the sources and flow of power in your classroom.
• Examine how misbehavior begins and plan strategies for dealing with it.
• Analyze techniques for helping students establish positive habits outside of the classroom.
• Plan strategies for handling classroom management issues that stem from beyond the classroom.
• Examine the benefits of deploying a classroom management strategy at the school level.
• Identify steps your school can take to develop a classroom management approach that crosses classrooms.

Syllabus

(ASCD online course, 2011) Reimagined self-paced asynchronous online course. Upon completion, learners will be awarded an ASCD Certificate worth up to 20 Clock Hours.