2023-2024 Graduate Catalog

EDUT 5253 Positive Educational Environment

Creating a Positive and Organized Educational Environment

Are you ready to get organized, but not sure where to start? This course allows you to explore ways to keep your classroom organized and effective through identifying necessary components for a successful learning environment: classroom’s physical set-up, the teacher’s expectations and routines for students, and how to revise ineffective structure. You will expand your toolkit to effectively address student behavior, and understand the power of building good rapport with your class to create a positive classroom atmosphere. Investigate strategies to captivate students and minimize distractions and learn how to build effective systems to constrain chaos in the classroom. Whether you're starting from scratch or need to restructure your educational environment, this course will help you to engage students and keep them focused in a positive and structured learning environment.

Credits

1-3