- Year 2022
- NSF Noyce Award # 2153754
- First Name Ramona
- Last Name Mateer
- Institution University of Houston
- Role/Position Master Teacher
- Workshop Category Track 1: Scholarships and Stipends
- Workshop Disciplines Audience Biological Sciences
- Target Audience Co-PIs, Evaluators/Education Researchers, Noyce Master Teachers, Noyce Teaching Fellows, Other Faculty/Staff, Project PIs, School District Administrators
- Topics Community Building: Supporting Teacher Educators and Pre-Service Teachers
- Session Length 45 minutes minutes
- Additional Presenter(s)
Paige Evans & Amanda Campos
Goals
teachHOUSTON developed and implemented a new classroom management course that will become an elective in the teachHOUSTON program. This session highlights course structure and activities, the need for the course, feedback from participants, and future directions of the course. The course focuses on classroom management systems, including socio-emotional climate, group processes, and behavior modification methods. In addition to specific classroom management techniques and strategies supporting inquiry, students analyze the overall learning environment including the value of lesson planning, classroom structures, building community and culturally responsive pedagogy as pertaining to classroom management.
Evidence
Qualitative research, focus groups, interviews, and in-class artifacts.
Proposal
Classroom management is the foundation for student learning success. New teachers frequently site classroom management as a gap in their formal training. teachHOUSTON had similar reports from their student teachers. A course was developed to address the need and provide teachers with the necessary skills to be immediately effective in the classroom. The developed course focuses on best practice as outlined in the literature including classroom management systems, socio-emotional climate, group processes, and behavior modification methods. In addition to specific classroom management techniques and strategies supporting inquiry, students analyze the overall learning environment including the value of lesson planning, classroom structures, building community and culturally responsive pedagogy as pertaining to classroom management.
