Making Connections for Engaged Learning
Making Connections for Engaged Learning introduces K-12 educators to the concepts of choice theory and teaching with love and logic. Through these easily adaptable principles, educators will learn how they impact their students’ engagement in learning, provide students with basic needs of love and understanding, and minimize the need for consequences and redirection. Educators will have the opportunity to create learning teams to make class time more satisfying, managed, and enjoyable for yourself and your students.
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Course Name: Making Connections for Engaged Learning |
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Course Number: EDUC 715B |
Semester Credits: 3 |
Course Description
When teachers make meaningful connections with their students, delay consequences for inappropriate actions, and respond to students with empathy, there will be greater cooperation and increased engagement in learning. This course will provide practical information and actionable insights regarding how to meet students' basic needs in your classroom. These basic needs are love and belonging, freedom, power, and fun. You will learn how to set up learning teams to make the class more satisfying for your students with the ultimate goal of engaging them in learning.
Goals
- List the fundamental concepts of choice theory and Love and Logic and note their characteristics in common.
- Utilize choice theory and Love and Logic strategies together to benefit students and engage them in learning.
- Apply the principles of Love and Logic to a student who frequently engages the teacher in a power struggle or disrupts class.
- Identify the five basic needs of students.
- Create a lesson plan which involves learning-teams to meet the basic needs of students (love and belonging, freedom, power, and fun).
Course Contents
- A New Approach That is Needed if More Students are to Work in School
- All of Our Motivation Comes from Within Ourselves
- The Needs That Drive Us All
- The Learning Pictures in the Student's Head
- Discipline Problems as Total Behaviors
- The Learning-Team Model
- The Teacher as a Modern Manager
- Classroom Examples of the Learning-Team Model
- Getting Started on Developing Learning-Team Activities
- Teachers Can be a Joy!
- Creating a Love and Logic Classroom
- Gaining Their Admiration and Respect
- There's no Love or Logic without Sincere Empathy
- Gaining Control by Sharing It
- Responding to Extremely Disruptive Students
- Managing Your Class…Instead of It Managing You
- Guiding Kids to Own and Solve Their Problems
- Reaching Your Unmotivated Students
- Success with Challenging Parents
Evidence of Learning Outcomes
Upon completing Making Connections for Engaged Learning, the student will have demonstrated a reflective understanding of how the principles of Love and Logic will help teachers develop a positive relationship with challenging students and how the principles of choice theory impact engagement in learning.
How to Register
Making Connections for Engaged Learning is offered in both an online or emailed PDF format, and all books and materials are included in the registration. Like all of our courses, it is open for anyone to register at any time during a semester. After completion, students earn graduate, non-degree semester credit from an accredited university, as reflected on their official transcript.
Registration is straightforward and can be done online or over the phone. Courses are offered ongoing during three semesters, and you can start whenever you are ready! Students may choose to enroll in up to a maximum of 15-semester credits at any time during each semester. The registration dates are:
- Fall: September 1 - January 31
- Spring: February 1 - May 31
- Summer: June 1 - August 31