What you'll learn:

Creating Connected Classrooms provides you with a solid foundation to support children's developing social and emotional skills, as well as tangible strategies to aid in creating a Connected Classroom environment.

As curricular demands on instructional time increase, teachers are finding it more challenging than ever to address the critical need for developing their student's social skills. Creating Connected Classrooms (C3) is here to bridge that gap. Using cutting-edge media technologies and a "know, see, do" approach, C3 incorporates interactive activities from real classroom videos to provide teachers with a solid foundation about children's developing social and emotional skills, as well as tangible strategies they can take right into their own classrooms.  

Through five interactive learning modules, Creating Connected Classrooms presents an exciting opportunity for teachers of early elementary students to develop useful tools for promoting connectedness and inclusivity so that all students can learn and thrive in the classroom.

What you'll do:

• Explain the benefits of creating a Connected Classroom
• Identify behaviors consistent with a Connected Classroom by watching real classroom videos
• Describe useful pedagogical strategies to promote positive peer interactions, effective communication, and caring among your students
• Recognize the significance of providing feedback on the interactions in your classroom
• Plan and execute strategies for implementing a Connected Classroom

Who is this course designed for:

Any early elementary educator interested in learning how to foster a classroom environment where all children feel connected while balancing the academic and social development needs of each child in their classroom.

What you'll receive:

Certificate of 9 professional development clock hours.