EDU 5401 - Effective Teaching Skills and Classroom Management

Credits: 4 hrs.

This course combines effective teaching skills and classroom management into one comprehensive course. It is designed to provide basic pedagogical tools necessary for creating effective teaching, learning and classroom management environments. Students are required to demonstrate: Critical teaching skills, multiple assessment strategies, micro-teaching, and other instructional models. It also incorporates current research on effective strategies for improving classroom discipline, motivation and interpersonal relationships. Students will create a classroom management plan, research best practices in classroom management and prepare presentations of effective discipline strategies, classroom management techniques and discipline models.