Building Classroom Community for Student Success - EDU-X763T

Course Description

Cultivate Community, Create Powerful Connections and Academic Success

This course will highlight the importance of creating a community within the classroom. Teachers and students collaborate to create a social contract that will form a classroom community that will foster growth and well-being. In a classroom with a strong sense of community, research has shown that students exhibit academic, social, and emotional growth.  Implementing a classroom community in a student's educational career has shown to be successful in a range of K-12 classrooms, including: under-performing, high ELL population and low socio-economic.

This course can be taken individually or as part of either the Professional Teachers Program Series or the Beginning Teachers Series.

Learner Outcomes

• Understand different methods of creating a Classroom Community
• Recognize the advantages of building a Classroom Community
• Analyze the ways in which parent/family outreach can be beneficial in a Community Classroom
• Design an implementation map to incorporate a Classroom Community in your learning environment

Course Details

Number of Units: 3.0 graduate level extension credit(s) in semester hours

Who Should Attend: This course provides continuing education for K-12 educators who want to create a classroom community to aide in student success.  Anytime is the time to start creating this learning environment.

• Elementary School Teachers
• Secondary Teachers
• Instructional Coaches
• Curriculum Coordinators
• Literacy Coaches
• Response to Intervention Teams
• Newcomer Teachers
• School Administrative Teams

Applies Towards the Following Certificate(s), Professional Programs and Series

• Beginning Teachers Series : Courses - Enroll in One or More
• Professional Teachers Program Series : Courses - Enroll in One or More