Overview

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Prepares student teachers to design positive learning environments in K-12 classrooms. The focus will be on practical approaches to creating a space in which students and teachers can work successfully together toward common goals.

COURSE DETAILS:

In this course, students are introduced to creating positive learning environments through a (w)holistic and relational paradigm. The concept of relationality is threaded through the three modules that guide the course: the relational child, the material environment, and the pedagogical leader. The focus will be on theoretical and practical approaches to creating communities of belonging. 

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

• Develop a relational perspective of the classroom as a co-constructed community of belonging
• Understand that children are relational beings: a ‘whole child’ is never separate from their environment, the influences of their family of origin, their cultures and the cultures they navigate, nor from the systems that exert force on how they experience life.
• Cultivate learning environments that acknowledge and honour diversity; diverse ways of learning, being, expressing needs, and of engaging in relationships.
• Understand that, for teachers, as pedagogical leaders, creating and sustaining affirmative learning environments is an ethical responsibility.

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