This course has been cancelled, effective July 10, 2008. Please check back for information regarding the 2009 course.
Participant Information:
Class sessions: August 4-8, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Location: Keller Building, Second Floor (Room 201)
On-site check-in: Monday, August 4, Keller Building, Second Floor, 8:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m.
Class fee: covers lunch on Monday and Friday, parking at The Nittany Lion Inn parking deck, and course materials
Responsive Classroom Management: Practices and Issues (C I 597C) is a weeklong course designed for and by practicing elementary teachers. The course will provide you with the opportunity to interact with your colleagues and explore issues and topics related to creating a positive, supportive, and productive classroom learning environment. Enrollment for this course will be limited to thirty participants.
- Importance of, and strategies for, positive classroom community building
- Strategies for you to foster student responsibility, self-direction, and self-regulation
- Strategies for you to maintain the community and deal effectively, in student-centered ways, with inappropriate behavior and classroom conflict: coping skills, logical consequences, time-out, classroom meetings, apology of action, getting on their side, teaching social skills, the culture-behavior connection, working with parents, dealing with the explosive child, and conflict resolution
- Preventing and dealing with bullying
- General issues: Why is creating a sense of belonging important? Is community building worth the time it takes? Does the need for community building differ across grade levels? Is positive reinforcement overused? Is the use of extrinsic rewards a good idea? If so, when and under what conditions?
Structure of Each Class
This one-week course meets every day from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. with an hour lunch break. Each class consists of:
- Morning meeting
- Presentations
- Readings
- Hands-on activities
- Small- and large-group discussions
- Interactive activities around issues
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