The Master of Education Degree in Classroom Management
This program is comprised of 10 three-semester hour courses delivered in a video-based online format.
* Sample Video Clips are now available below each Course Description.
Course Descriptions:
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EDUC 5380:
(3 Semester Hours)
The Classroom of Choice: Managing the Learning Environment
This course features Jon Erwin presenting and demonstrating his classroom management concepts and practices as detailed in his book The Classroom of Choice: Giving Students What They Need and Getting What You Want. You will learn how to create a learning environment that supports the class as a whole while meeting the particular needs of individual students.
In this course, you will learn how to:
- keep your classroom orderly and running smoothly.
- use research-based management strategies.
- build and maintain trusting relationships.
- boost student self-worth through accomplishment.
- gain cooperation and prevent discipline problems.
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EDUC 5390:
(3 Semester Hours)
Choice and Responsibility: Managing Student Behavior
This course is designed to teach K-12 participants how to deal effectively with student behavior in the classroom. Included are social emotional learning (SEL) strategies to help students regulate their behavior (ie. restrain impulses, manage stress and anger, self-evaluate, plan effectively, and perservere) and get along with others (i.e. take others' perspective, empathize, demonstrate manners and social skills).
In this course, you will learn how to:
- integrate character education into their classroom instruction
- create and use specific, engaging strategies for teaching the emotional and social skills students need.
- integrate SEL into the academic curriculum.
- learn skills to deal with any discipline situation no matter how intense.
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EDUC 5130:
(3 Semester Hours)
Introduction to Choice Theory: Teaching Students Responsible Behavior
This course will give participants the theory and skills to teach students how to take responsibility for their own behavior in school. It will lead participants through a series of learning activities designed to show you why students misbehave, how to stop unwanted behavior, and how to teach students to make more responsible choices.
In this course, you will learn how to:
- identify the basic needs that motivate all human behavior.
- determine why some students choose to misbehave.
- implement the G-PAR (Goal-Plan, Action, Results) approach to improving student behavior.
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EDUC 5160:
(3 Semester Hours)
Enhancing Instruction: Teaching in the Quality Classroom
This course will give participants the theory and skills to enhance your instruction and develop strategies that will raise your students' achievement to a new level of quality. Featured in the course videos is a visit to the classroom of Mr. Hank Benjamin, an author and a multi-awarding wining teacher, who demonstrates how to translate Dr. Glasser's choice theory into meaningful and engaging lessons.
In this course, you will learn how to:
- help your students become better listeners and stay on task.
- create need-fulfilling and engaging lessons.
- teach your students problem-solving skills that lead to improved achievement.
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EDUC 5660:
(3 Semester Hours)
Introduction to Differentiation: Applying Learner-Centered Instruction
Provides an introduction to th ephilosophy of differentiation. This course will examine ways that classrooms can effectively support differentiating instruction and assessment to addres the complex challenges of meeting the diverse learning needs of all students. Also covered are such issues as fairness and agrading, developing study and academic skills, and challenging all students at appropriate levels.
In this course, you will learn how to:
- determine what is and what is not differentiation.
- differentiate the content of their curriculum.
- differentiate the way they teach and assess.
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EDUC 5670:
(3 Semester Hours)
Differentiated Instructional Strategies: Meeting the Diverse Needs of Learners
This course is designed to give participants the knowledge and skills to implement differentiated instruction successfully in their own classrooms. Topics include strategies for meting the needs of an increasingly diverse student population within the context of today's challenging standards-based curriculum. Real-life video demonstrations will illustrate how to adapt curriculum content, processes, and products to match students' readiness, interests and learning profiles.
In this course, you will learn how to:
- recognize and teach to different kinds of intelligences.
- create and implement multi-option and tiered assignments.
- design more dynamic and engaging lessons and units
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EDUC 5260:
(3 Semester Hours)
Responsibility, Respect, and Relationships: Creating Emotionally Safe Classrooms
This course will give participants the knowledge and skills to deal with students' apprehensions and fears and at the same time create an emotionally safe classroom atmosphere that promotes learning. The video instructor for this course is Dr. Jane Bluestein, an internationally renowned teacher educator and author of several books including Creating Emotionally Safe Schools and The Win-Win Classroom.
In this course, you will learn how to:
- create an emotional safety net to support troubled students before they become dangerous students.
- recognize and respond effectively to students who are experiencing an emotional crisis.
- identify and capitalize on students learning strengths and preferences.
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EDUC 5270:
(3 Semester Hours)
Classroom Management: Dealing with Discipline Problems
This course applies Dr. Glasser's choice theory concepts to commonly occurring classroom discipline problems. Featured in the video is a panel of behavior management experts led by author and teacher educator Douglas Naylor (Teaching Students Responsible Behavior). Problems covered include off-task behavior, cheating, refusing to work, defiance, and fighting.
In this course, you will learn how to:
- create and use a classroom discipline plan designed to prevent problems from occurring.
- solve commonly occurring discipline problems that keep you from teaching and other students from learning.
- deal with recurring discipline problems and help troubled students plan for improved behavior.
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EDUC 5300:
(3 Semester Hours)
Gaining Parental Support: Building Home-School Relationships
With this course, participants will acquire skills to improve communication with parents, hold more effective parent conferences, and implement strategies that build a collaborative partnership between school and home. Included in the videos is a workshop led by educational consultant and parent support expert Jeanette McDaniel.
In this course, you will learn how to:
- better prepare for and conduct parent conferences.
- diffuse emotional confrontations with parents.
- implement communication strategies that will build a positive, productive partnership with all of your students' parents.
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EDUC 5140:
(3 Semester Hours)
Creating a Professional Portfolio: The Capstone Experience
This course is designed to provide participants an opportunity to reflect on their learning and professional growth with the construction of a culminating professional portfolio. The portfolio process will document and deepen your knowledge of reflective practice and heighten your understanding of the competencies you have gained as a result of your participation in the M.Ed. program.
In this course, you will learn how to:
- create an impressive portfolio that showcases your teaching strengths.
- take an important first step toward national certification.
- use professional portfolios as a vehicle for career-long professional development.
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Final Project:
Your Master of Education experience culminates in the creation of a professional portfolio that showcases your accomplishments and documents your proficiency in utilizing quality teaching strategies.
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