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EED414 Foundations 5: Managing 21st Century Classrooms (8)

Abstract

This subject extends the student’s understanding of their role in creating and sustaining an engaging, inclusive, safe and equitable learning environment for children. This subject further explores ways to build positive, trusting relationships and promote community, collaborative culture and positive classroom climate which supports individual and collective growth. This subject explores cultural responsiveness as a set of professional, political, cultural and ethical dispositions that influence beliefs about education, children, their families and their communities.  Classroom management strategies are considered in relation to children’s cultural expectations and norms.   

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Subject information

Duration Grading System School:
One termHD/FLSchool of Teacher Education

Assumed Knowledge

EED450 Foundations 1: Child Development and Classroom Management

Enrolment restrictions

This subject is restricted to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Primary Education Studies.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
  • be able to describe the roles of self-awareness and meta-cognition in developing self-regulation;
  • be able to plan and implement culturally relevant and responsive lessons and instructional approaches that engage learners with an emphasis on creating inclusive, productive learning communities;
  • be able to use a variety of strategies for preventing and addressing off-task behaviour, including the use of student information to plan learning that builds on student assets and interests to meet learning needs and optimize learning time;
  • be able to compare and contrast methods to allow students to see themselves in the curriculum through their backgrounds, experiences and knowledge in culturally relevant and responsive ways, including those that reflect traditional First Nation, Metis and Inuit ways of being and knowing; and
  • be able to explore cultural responsive classroom management strategies considering children?s cultural expectations and norms.

Syllabus

The subject will cover the following topics:
  • Creating and sustaining inclusive, equitable learning environments.
  • Building positive, trusting relationships.
  • Culturally responsive classroom management.
  • Dispositions that influence beliefs about education, children, their families and their communities.
  • Culturally relevant and responsive lessons and instructional approaches.
  • First Nation, Metis and Inuit perspectives of classroom management.
  • Proactive and responsive classroom management.

Specialised Resources

Students require a laptop computer and/or appropriate mobile device.

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The information contained in the 2015 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 01 October 2015. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.