Course Objectives

• Consider how to establish and communicate learning goals, track student progress, and celebrate student academic success.
• Develop classroom rules and procedures to ensure uninhibited teaching and learning.
• Evaluate the reasons and methods for helping students effectively interact with new knowledge.
• Analyze techniques that allow students to practice and deepen their understanding of new knowledge.
• Recognize methods for helping students generate and test hypotheses about new knowledge.
• Understand the role of effective student engagement in the classroom.
• Recognize and acknowledge methods for tracking student adherence (and lack of adherence) to classroom rules and procedures.
• Evaluate techniques for maintaining effective relationships with students
• Understand how to critique your current student expectations and how to communicate high expectations for all students.
• Use the design questions to develop effective lessons organized in curriculum units.

Syllabus

(ASCD PD Online course, 2014) Self-paced asynchronous online course. Upon completion, learners will be awarded an ASCD Certificate worth up to 20 Clock Hours.