MSTC402 - Classroom Management and PBIS

Course Description

Multiple Subject Teaching Credential Program

Course: MSTC 402 Classroom Management and PBIS

This course focuses on teaching candidates how to develop a positive classroom environment that supports
learning. Candidates will learn the information on laws and regulations as they relate to promoting positive
behavior, self-regulation, and safe schools for all students. Candidates will learn how to manage a classroom and
build structures that support student engagement and motivation. Candidates will also learn how to monitor,
assess, manage, and teach positive classroom behaviors. Candidates will review classroom and school
management strategies and develop individual behavior management plans. Candidates learn advanced strategies
and interventions for preventing, minimizing, and resolving challenging behaviors in the classroom as well as how
to facilitate acceptable behaviors. Candidates will learn about school wide positive supports and their role in
promoting safe schools and positive social emotional learning, including but not limited to restorative justice and
anti-bullying strategies. Within the course, candidates will learn strategies for working with families and be able to
identify their own behaviors that may impact behavior in students.