MGE 522 Engaging Young Adolescent Learners

The course provides candidates opportunities to research, observe, and identify a range of classroom management styles to engage young adolescent learners for successful classroom and school experiences through application of PIESS+(Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, Social, Spiritual, (PIESS) gender, socioeconomic, culture, media, special populations (Plus+). Through course readings and activities, candidates have opportunities to develop critical perspectives of appropriate middle grades classroom experiences advocating student success, research past and current classroom management trends, examine legal concerns regarding appropriate discipline, create a portfolio of diverse, respectful range of classroom management techniques appropriate for young adolescent learners and reflect how teacher behaviors can enhance and/or impede short-term and/or long-term student success. Pre-requisite(s): None. Co-requisite(s): None. 1 semester hour