Creating Safe Classroom Environments

Creating Safe Classroom Environments
Price: 
$140.00

Course Hours: 
25
Course Type: 
Instructor Led - 4 Weeks Long
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  • Objectives
  • Outline
  • Materials
  • System Requirements

As an educator, you work to make sure your students are in a physically safe classroom environment, but what about socially and emotionally? It is extremely important for students to feel valued, that their social identity and cultures are accepted, and that they are welcomed members of the classroom. Our Creating Safe Classroom Environments course helps educators gain the knowledge for building positive, trustworthy, and challenging curriculum and environments that allow students to flourish. These practices help to empower students to take charge of their own learning and goals. 

 

After completing this course, you should be able to:

  • Describe how to create safe learning environments for social and emotional needs
  • Recall child centered teaching practices and how to cultivate diversity
  • Identify how to foster classroom relationships among educators and students
  • Recognize how to develop caring learning environments

Creating Safe Classroom Environments Module 1 
Listening and Teaching for Understanding

Classrooms are socially dynamic environments. Our first module introduces the practices of creating identity safe classrooms. We’ll discuss the theory and research behind these practices. Finally, we’ll describe how to listen to students and teach for understanding.

  • Introduction to Identity Safe Teaching Practices
  • From Theory, to Research, to Transforming Practice
  • Listening to Students’ Voices
  • Teaching for Understanding

Creating Safe Classroom Environments Module 2
Child Centered Teaching and Diversity

Module two of our course covers a variety of topics. We’ll discuss how creating cooperative environments and promoting autonomy supports student development. Also, diversity can absolutely be used as a resource for teaching.

  • Focus on Cooperation
  • Classroom Autonomy
  • Using Diversity as a Resource for Teaching
  • Using These Elements as Resources

Creating Safe Classroom Environments Module 3
Classroom Relationships

Teachers should always set high expectations for their students and these expectations should be communicated appropriately. Creating challenging curriculum helps promote high expectations. We’ll discuss these aspects in this module.

  • High Expectations and Academic Rigor
  • Challenging Curriculum
  • Teacher Warmth
  • Availability to Support Learning

Creating Safe Classroom Environments Module 4
Caring Classrooms

The final module of this course discusses how to foster a caring classroom environment. We’ll describe how to promote positive student relationships, provide emotional comfort, and prosocial development.

  • Positive Student Relationships
  • Teacher Skills
  • Emotional and Physical Comfort
  • Attention to Prosocial Development 

Ed4Career is committed to being both environmentally conscious and making it easier for you to study! We’re making your education mobile! All of our textbooks are now provided as eTextbooks. You can access them on your laptop, tablet, or mobile device and can study anytime, anywhere.

The move away from physical books to eTextbooks means you get the latest, most up-to-date version available. This also makes your training more accessible, so you can study anywhere you have your phone or tablet. The best part is that all materials are included in your training cost so there are NO extra fees for books!

Internet Connection

  • Broadband or High-Speed - DSL, Cable, and Wireless Connections

*Dial-Up internet connections will result in a diminished online experience. Classroom pages may load slowly and viewing large audio and video files may not be possible.

Hardware Requirements

  • Processor - 2GHz Processor or Higher
  • Memory - 1 GB RAM Minimum Recommended

 

PC Software Requirements

  • Operating Systems - Windows 7 or higher
  • Microsoft Office 2013 or higher. Also, you could use a general Word Processing application to save and open Microsoft Office formats (.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx)
  • Internet Browsers - Google Chrome is highly recommended
    • Cookies MUST be enabled
    • Pop-ups MUST be allowed (Pop-up Blocker disabled)
  • The Kindle Reader App or VitalSource Bookshelf App are needed for many of our courses (No special equipment needed. This can be downloaded for FREE onto your computer.)
  • PowerPoint Viewer (if you do not have PowerPoint)
  • Adobe PDF Reader
  • QuickTime, Windows Media Player &/or Real Player

 

MAC Software Requirements

  • Operating Systems - Mac OS x 10 or higher with Windows
  • Mac office programs or a Word Processing application to save and open Microsoft Office formats (.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx)
  • Internet Browsers- Google Chrome is highly recommended
    • Cookies MUST be enabled
    • Pop-ups MUST be allowed (Pop-up Blocker disabled)
  • The Kindle Reader App or VitalSource Bookshelf App are needed for many of our courses (No special equipment needed. This can be downloaded for FREE onto your computer.)
  • PowerPoint Viewer (if you do not have PowerPoint)
  • Adobe PDF Reader
  • Apple QuickTime Media Player