MAT 525 - Responsive Learning Environments

4 credits
This class is more than a set of strategies or practices, it is a pedagogical approach that guides the classroom management decisions that teachers make to create environments which support individual and collaborative learning and encourage positive social interactions in face-to-face and virtual environments, active engagement in learning, and self-motivation. Students examine relationships among schools, parents, and communities and explore interactions, classroom organizations, and management approaches that help pre-service teachers understand how to establish classroom climates which support learning in a culturally responsive way. Explores how learners grow and develop across varying differences including social, emotional and physical, and prepares students to design and implement developmentally appropriate, culturally responsive and challenging learning experiences.
Graded (A-F) only