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Description

Welcome to Advanced Classroom Management: Children as Change Agents (ACM), a course geared primarily for regular or special educators, instructional assistants, school psychologist, counselors and administrator serving children and adolescents presenting social, emotional and/or behavioral problems in the classroom, school or community setting. The course focuses on cognitive and cognitive-behavioral interventions (often lumped together under the rubric "social skills") with an emphasis on teaching students how to adapt, change and manage their own behavior. ACM will also review various stress reducing techniques that may be taught to students as well as used by participants to reduce his/her own stress. Since previous knowledge and understanding of traditional behavioral (operant) concepts and strategies is required, it is strongly recommended that participants have a reasonable understanding of basic behavior management terms. Without this basic behavior management understanding participants might find some of the advanced concepts difficult to follow and apply.

Syllabus, Objectives, and Outcomes

Objectives:

• Know the terminology in the areas of behavior management, self-management and cognitive-behavior modification.
• Know the relative merits and limitations of the behavioral and social-cognitive approaches to behavior management.
• Understand the rationale for teaching students how to self-manage their behavior.
• Understand the roles that cognitions and emotions play in the development of behavior problems.
• Apply the self-management strategies covered in the course to the behavior problems of their own students.
• Review some of the factors that cause stress in classroom, school and social settings.
• Discuss various methods that may be employed to effective lesson or completely eliminate stress.
• Diagnose behavior problems and assess the efficacy of self-management interventions.
• Increase the probability of students using self-management strategies in and outside of the classroom setting.
• Teach problem solving skills that allow students to better resolve social, emotional, behavioral and academic issues.
• Describe how to modify the classroom learning environment to decrease social, emotional and behavioral problems.
• Learn to adapt instructional strategies to increase the chance of student academic success.

Course Materials (Online):

Title:  Advanced Classroom Management: Children as Change Agents, Dr. Karen Lea/Mick Jackson

Review Syllabus: Advanced_Classroom_Management_Karen_Lea_VESi.pdf - COURSE MUST BE COMPLETED AND SUBMITTED BY AUGUST 15th, 2025.