EDU 668 Reach for Today's Student

This course is designed to teach participants strategies for creating a community of caring within individual classrooms and schools for the purpose of increasing academic success for all learners. Topics such as positive classroom discipline, proactive behavioral management for students with special needs, and diffusing crisis situations in the classroom are examined within a context of a 'classroom as community' model. Emphasis will be placed on teachers' self-awareness, as well as on examining the myriad of motives underlying student misbehavior. Participants are expected to design an individual problem-solving plan that strengthens opportunities for all students to succeed. (3 credits)