26C.6563.7, PE Central, Classroom Management & Student Engagement for Elementary Classroom Teachers

Course Purpose/Objectives

With solid classroom management and student engagement, teachers are able to reach their full potential in reaching students. This course will give you tools and strategies to build a strong classroom community, form relationships with students, manage every day tasks, incorporate engaging activities into your lessons, and much, much more.

Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, the user will be able to:

• Know ways to start the school year off on the right foot
• Understand the importance of forming relationships with students, and know ways to build and maintain those relationships
• Identify ways to build classroom community and increase kindness within the classroom
• Know how to maintain organization and good pacing in the classroom
• Incorporate effective management strategies into classroom activities
• Identify his/her philosophy on rewards and consequences and have a plan for effectively using rewards and consequences in the classroom
• Identify and utilize strategies for working with students with challenging behaviors
• Effectively incorporate multiple student engagement strategies into lessons
• Know how to use multiple learning styles, games, collaboration, and hands-on activities to increase student engagement

Course Description

This course will dive into a number of classroom management topics. There will be a variety of items discussed. There will be things that teachers can create and/or put into affect in their own classrooms immediately. This course will supply you with ideas from the very first day of school, and throughout the entire school year. We will also look at multiple student engagement strategies. The course is divided into several modules that you can work through at your own pace.