Course Overview

In this course you will learn the six strategies that can improve the learning environment to make your classroom more predictable, safe, and orderly. You will analyze, develop, and apply methods to improve your classroom processes and build a more efficient environment for student learning, to be applied to your current or future classroom. Through targeted activities, resources, templates, reference guides, articles, and examples you will learn the important requirements for an orderly and efficient classroom and will be able to build a strategic implementation plan to ensure a strategy is implemented to mastery. This course allows you to view expectations for classroom processes through a new lens and provides you with tangible ideas and resources to ensure that you are improving upon classroom efficiency through multiple methods throughout your class day.

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At a Glance

Approximately 30 hours
Access Time: 365 days
2 PDUs
Graduate Level Professional Development Credit
$300

Program Highlights

Online education

100% Online

All coursework delivered fully online, so you can balance work, life, and study.

Standards

Graduate-Level PD Credits

Earn graduate-level professional development credits to support salary advancement and professional growth. Check with your school or district for approval before enrolling.

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Enjoy instant access, self-paced study, and an easy-to-follow, template-based course format.

Course Objectives

  • Analyze the 6 strategies used to create more efficient environments for student learning
  • Determine methods to implement each strategy, and build a plan of action around implementation
  • Choose and implement a classroom strategy to mastery in a strategic manner
  • Compose targeted supplemental resources to ensure action plan implementation of student documentation and data collection in the classroom
  • Analyze and defend research within articles covering the main topics within the course, to reflect on the research’s impact in the classroom
  • Plan, reflect, and report on implementation

Course Topics

Overview of Efficient Classroom Processes
Strategies: Structured Daily Routine
Strategies: Daily Procedures
Strategies: Pacing
Strategies: Attention Getters
Strategies: Silent Signals





 

Program Partner

This course is offered through University of Massachusetts Global’s School of Extended Education in partnership with Model Teaching.

What are Graduate-level Professional Development Credits?

Graduate-level professional development credits are not part of a degree program but instead are primarily used for professional advancement such as salary increment steps and recertification. Students should seek approval from appropriate district officials before enrolling in these courses.