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2 semester hours graduate credit
Next sessions:
EDUC 744 911 Elementary September 22 – October 24, 2008
EDUC 744 912 Middle/High School September 22 – October 24, 2008
EDUC 744 911 Elementary January 28- March 6, 2009
EDUC 744 912 Middle/High School January 28- March 6, 2009
Online - no travel to campus required
Description: Discover best practices of effective classroom management, how to establish a productive classroom climate, how to work with students with many types of special needs and apply a variety of management techniques to help students become responsible for their behaviors and choices.
Learn how to increase student motivation, build positive student-teacher relationships, and develop effective partnerships between parents and school. Includes strategies to minimize and prevent classroom and behavior management problems
and time management techniques such as managing email, paperwork, planning, and classroom organization.
Explore how to create a learning community that encourages positive social interaction, active engagement, and self-regulation for every student.
You will connect to learning modules, access readings and class discussion
via the course website, and submit assignments reflecting on application in practice,
and enjoy frequent
personal email contact with the instructor.
Conducted online with no face-to-face class sessions, you may participate using your home or work
computer without having to drive to the university campus at set times.
Additional online classes are listed in the
online catalog
Learning Outcomes
At completion of the course, students will:
- Analyze research-based instructional strategies for effective classroom management
and behavior management compatible with the developmental characteristics of specific age groups;
- Analyze best practices for effective classroom organization to minimize disruptive behavior and increase learning;
- Self-assess current classroom management procedures and routines;
- Self-assess organization of time, space, materials, and equipment for instruction;
- Assess procedures and strategies for scheduling and managing instructional time in the classroom;
- Compare strategies for structuring the classroom environment to invite and support students' participation;
- Critique how to arrange a classroom to promote learning and minimize behavior problems;
- Apply methods for developing student-teacher rapport in the classroom;
- Apply strategies to improve home and school communication;
- Analyze various student learning and thinking styles and the impact on classroom management;
- Analyze classifications and characteristics of teaching styles;
- Describe how teaching style influences classroom learning environment and
how modification of teaching style can create a more effective learning environment for students;
- Apply the principles of preventive discipline/management and supportive/corrective discipline/management;
- Create a classroom behavior management plan and apply motivation techniques;
- Evaluate students' time on task and describe strategies to improve on task behaviors;
- Design effective learning activities that
prevent classroom management difficulties and cultivate social and group responsibilities;
- Design and utilize self and group assessment rubrics to assess group work, team activities, cooperative learning activities;
- Apply best practices using positive reinforcement in the classroom;
- Implement strategies that encourage teachers and administrators to work together in dealing with classroom management issues.
Review a few comments from our past participants.
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Required Textbook:
This book is available from online book stores and can be ordered from most local book dealers. Readings will be assigned from this textbook.
Classroom Management That Works: Research-Based Strategies for Every Teacher by Robert J. Marzano, Jana S. Marzano, Debra J. Pickering, 2003. ISBN: 0871207931
"How does classroom management affect student achievement? What techniques do teachers find most effective? How important are school wide policies and practices in setting the tone for individual classroom management? Robert J. Marzano analyzes research from more than 100 studies on classroom management to discover the answers to these questions and applies these findings to a series of 'Action Steps'--specific strategies that educators can use."
Participants will be guided through readings, engage in discussions and complete individual/team activities.
Prerequisites
Hardware and Software Requirements
Hardware and Software Requirements
What are the minimum technology requirements?
Complete the system checkup on this website, https://uwstout.courses.wisconsin.edu/
by clicking on the link that says: Check your system.
Review the list of compatible/recommended browsers and software programs for Learn@UWStout at the Online Help Desk.
If you have any questions about these preferences, please call one of the numbers listed below and indicate that you are a UW-Stout student needing help with Learn@UW-Stout . Help is available 7 days a week.
• 1-888-435-7589 select option 3
, or
• 1-608-264-4357 select option 3
Take a few minutes to review the Frequently Asked Questions, (FAQs).
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Instructor
Vicki Zylstra - background information
Registration
Tuition is payable by university billing, MasterCard, or Visa.
Participants may select the payment plan option in fall and spring, but it is not available during summer session. Refund policy
Enrollment is limited to twenty participants; register online .
Check out the list of additional online classes.
Request Information Online
Contact: soeonline@uwstout.edu
School of Education Online Professional Development
University of Wisconsin - Stout
Menomonie, WI 54751
phone: (715) 642-0209 or 715-232-2253
Orientation Activities
After you are enrolled, review the orientation activities, the Student Expectations and Responsibilities and Academic Expectations and Dishonesty Policy .
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Alignment
with Teaching Standards
Participants in this class will gain experience that will help them meet the
following Wisconsin Teaching Standards:
3, 5, 6, 9, 10
This class will help participants meet the
National
Educational Technology Standards for Teachers I, II, III,
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