This course consist of 30 hours of online assignments and activities. Educators will receive 3.0 CEUs after the completion of this course. CEUs are issued by North Mississippi Education Consortium. We can deliver this course online or onsite**. The cost for the online delivery is $65.
Workshop Description:
Classroom management on all grade levels aim to achieve at the same end results which can be (1) effective management of students and (2) to improve academics. Management in different grade levels vary because of age and experience. There are many ways to look at classroom management and many strategies to implement it. No one classroom is the same. So why should classroom management be the same in each classroom? Creativity in this area should be explored with proven concepts.
This workshop requires educators to implement new or improve current strategies in their education setting. All teachers will participant in peer classroom observations for learning and improving current practices. A district, school and teachers have to find the right balance for their environment. You will need a mentor or administrator to complete some parts of this workshop.
This workshop includes activities for creating your own S.M.A.R.T. goals. Teachers are strongly encouraged to participate in this activity as part of workshop. Discussions and chats are available for all educators to further engage in this activity. We also provide a PLC tool for teachers to use in their school. The PLC and the S.M.A.R.T goal tool is available for use after the completion of this workshop.
Each workshop has teacher workload information and activity. This discusses the need for balance of teacher workload. It is meant for teacher encouragement and accountability. The workloads of teachers is something that can be addressed through consistent team collaboration. Team collaboration is strongly encouraged with all in all workshops.
The coursework involves reading assignments that aides in thoroughly understanding the learning objective. Teachers are required to submit a lesson snippet of the learning objective. This is for the implementing the learning objective in real time. The workshop provides a peer observation activity to further ensure the learning objective is being used. It is the intent that all the activities, discussion and assessments help the educator achieve the needed outcome(s).
This workshop will focus on the following areas:
UNIT/WEEK 1
Learning Objective:
Establish classroom rules immediately and enforce them consistently (1) Are your rules logical for your age group? (2) Are your consequences logical? (3) How can consequences become counter productive? (4) Should rules eventually fade into the background or stay in the forefront.
UNIT/WEEK2
Learning Objective:
Set logical rules and consequences (1) Describe how you would use positive language even when dealing with bad behaviors. (2) Do you think positive language should always be used? (3) Does ruling with a hard fist wins in your classroom?
UNIT/WEEK3
Learning Objective:
Use positive language instead of negative language
Make your students feel responsible for their own learning environment
(1) How do you empower your students? (2) What is the most challenging issue with empowering students? (3) How do most of your students respond? (4) If you are familiar with empowering students:-).....please explain some successes and failures!
UNIT/WEEK4
Learning Objective:
Praise efforts and achievements for their own sake,
not for the sake of teacher approval (1) Is too much praise...good or not so good? (2) How can you break the phase of too much praise? (3) List some pros or cons on this topic! (4) Do you know how other teachers at your school handle this issue?
Extended Activities
Create Plan of Action using the following:
- S.M.A.R.T. Goals
- Specific (simple, sensible, significant)
- Measurable (meaningful, motivating)
- Achievable (agreed, attainable)
- Relevant (reasonable, realistic and resourced, results-based)
- Time bound (time-based, time limited, time/cost limited, timely, time-sensitive)
To make sure your goals are clear and reachable, each one should be:
Extended Activities
Components of Action Plan:
Identify task
Gather data
Develop strategies
Implement plan
Some References:
- First, you must Register on our online course system. Click the Register button below.
- After you created an account, login and select the course and pay ($65 per course).
