UMass Boston

Fostering Equitable & Affirming Classroom Environments

Course #: EDC G 643, Class #: 3678, Section #: 01

Description

This course explores a diverse range of dispositions and strategies that lead to equity-based and affirming classrooms and support all students' abilities to grow and thrive. The course focuses on the role of social inequity in the history of school discipline, examines routines and structures that create positive classroom environments, and offers ways to build better connections between the classroom and students' home lives and families. All students in this class should have a field placement in a public school classroom or be a teacher of record in a public school.