ELSPED 3118 - 60 Learning Motivation, Behavior Support, and Reasoning Skills

Teacher candidates will study recent trends in the elementary classroom environment and curriculum for grades K through 6 while examining the influence of cognition and motivational factors on children's learning, motivation, and behavioral supports. The second module of this session focuses on skills needed to organize and manage the culturally sustaining and inclusive classroom environment for instruction in elementary classrooms using individual, small group, and whole group strategies that facilitate productive behaviors for learning. The development of professional behaviors and effective skills for interdisciplinary and family collaboration is experienced by the teacher candidate throughout the program, including problem-solving and strategies for an individual. In a third module, learners engage in mathematics as problem-solving, focusing on whole numbers, rational number concepts, and arithmetic operations with connections to algebraic thinking. Connections to practice are explored with classroom stories and experiences learners encounter in their work as paraeducators. Prerequisite(s): declared Purple Pathway for Paraeducators majors only.