EGSE 5223 - Building Supportive Learning Environments (3)

This course covers the key elements of classroom support for a special or regular education classroom. Students will explore various classroom discipline and management models and their relationship to degrees of teacher and student control. Particular attention is given to understanding how a teacher’s behavior and/or instructional strategies, styles, and techniques affect student behavior and learning. The course also includes development of communication, language, and social skills for typically developing children, as well as the deficits seen in these areas in children with disabilities. Students will learn the link between communication and behavior, the importance of developing functional communication and instructional strategies to develop communication, language, and social skills. Research-based interventions such as social narratives, video-modeling, and functional communication training will also be discussed.