Rio Grande Valley Campus

School of Education
Mission of the University System
Wayland Baptist University exists to educate students in an academically challenging,
learning-focused and distinctively Christian environment for professional success and
service to God and humankind.

COURSE: EDUC4313-RG01 Classroom Management

DAY, TIME: Tuesday, 6:00 p.m.-10:10 p.m. ROOM 126 at TSTC
PLACE: ROOM 126 at TSTC and ONLINE through Zoom and Blackboard
TERM: Spring II March 23-May 11, 2021
Professor: Kimberly McCutcheon
Phone: 210-630-9534
e-mail: [email protected]

Course Description:
Classroom Management – learning to build a system for classroom management that
creates a positive learning environment. Field experience: 6 hours to be determined

Course Outcome Competencies: Texas Education

Standards
Domain II: Creating a positive, productive
classroom environment

The beginning teacher:

Competency 005: The teacher knows how to establish a

classroom climate that fosters learning, equity, and excellence
and uses this knowledge to create a physical and emotional
environment that is safe and productive.
5.1 Uses knowledge of the unique characteristics and needs of students in early
childhood through grade 4 to establish a positive, productive classroom environment
(e.g., encourages cooperation and sharing, teaches children to use language to
express their feelings).

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 5.2 Establishes a classroom climate that emphasizes collaboration and supportive
interactions, respect for diversity and individual differences, and active engagement
in learning by all students.
5.3 Analyzes ways in which teacher-student interactions and interactions among
students impact classroom climate and student learning and development.
5.4 Presents instruction in ways that communicate the teacher’s enthusiasm for
learning.
5.5 Uses a variety of means to convey high expectations for all students.
5.6 Knows characteristics of physical spaces that are safe and productive for
learning, recognizes the benefits and limitations of various arrangements of furniture
in the classroom, and applies strategies for organizing the physical environment to
ensure physical accessibility and facilitate learning in various instructional contexts.
5.7 Creates a safe, nurturing, and inclusive classroom environment that
addresses students’ emotional needs and respects students’ rights and dignity.

Competency 006: The teacher understands strategies for creating an

organized and productive learning environment and for managing student
behavior.
6.1 Analyzes the effects of classroom routines and procedures on student
learning, and knows how to establish and implement routines and
procedures to promote an organized and productive learning environment.
6.4 Schedules activities and manages time in ways that maximize student
learning, including using effective procedures to manage transition; to
manage materials, supplies and technology; and to coordinate the
performance of non-instructional duties (e.g., taking attendance) with
instructional activities.
6.7 Applies theories and techniques related to managing and monitoring
student behavior.
6.8 Demonstrates awareness of appropriate behavior standards and
expectations for students at various developmental levels.
6.9 Applies effective procedures for managing student behavior and for
promoting appropriate behavior and ethical work habits (e.g., academic
integrity) in the classroom (e.g., communicating high and realistic behavior
expectations, involving students in developing rules and procedures,
establishing clear consequences for inappropriate behavior, enforcing
behavior standards consistently, encouraging students to monitor their own
behavior and to use conflict resolution skills, responding appropriately to
various types of behavior).

Attendance
Classroom Attendance both at zoom and online during hybrid weeks is vital to your
academic success. You must notify me in advance if you must miss a class and make
up work will be required.
Required Course Textbooks
Hendricks, Howard (2003) Teaching to Change Lives.
Wong, Harry and Wong, Rosemary (2014) The Classroom Management Book. Harry K
Wong Publications, Mountain View, California
Optional Text:
Wong, Harry and Wong, Rosemary (2009) The First Days of School: How to be an
Effective Teacher. Harry K Wong Publications, Mountain View, California

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Act of 1990 (ADA), it is the policy of Wayland Baptist University that no
otherwise qualified person with a disability be excluded from participation
in, be denied the benefits of, or be subject to discrimination under any
educational program or activity in the university. The Coordinator of
Counseling serves as the coordinator of students with a disability and should
be contacted concerning accommodation requests at (806) 291-3765.
Documentation of a disability must accompany any request for
accommodations.

ACADEMIC HONESTY:
Wayland students are expected to conduct themselves according to the highest standards
of academic honesty. Academic misconduct for which a student is subject to penalty
includes all forms of cheating, such as possession of examinations or examination
materials, forgery, or plagiarism. Disciplinary action for academic misconduct is the
responsibility of the faculty member assigned to the course. The faculty member is
charged with assessing the gravity of any case of academic dishonesty and with giving
sanctions to any student involved. The faculty member involved will file a record of the
offense and the punishment imposed with the dean of the school, campus dean, and the
academic vice president. Any student who has been penalized for academic dishonesty
has the right to appeal the judgment or the penalty assessed.
Plagiarism
“Plagiarism — The attempt to represent the work of another, as it may relate to written or oral works,
computer-based work, mode of creative expression (i.e. music, media or the visual arts), as the product of
one's own thought, whether the other's work is published or unpublished, or simply the work of a fellow
student.
1. When a student submits oral or written work for credit that includes the words, ideas, or data of
others, the source of that information must be acknowledged through complete, accurate, and
specific references, and, if verbatim statements are included, through use of quotation marks as
well. By placing one’s name on work submitted for credit, the student certifies the originality of
all work not otherwise identified by appropriate acknowledgements. A student will avoid being
charged with plagiarism if there is an acknowledgement of indebtedness.”
http://catalog.wbu.edu/content.php?catoid=3&navoid=210

Students shall have protection through orderly procedures against prejudices or capricious academic
evaluation. A student who believes that he or she has not been held to realistic academic standards,
just evaluation procedures, or appropriate grading, may appeal the final grade given in the course by
using the student grade appeal process described in the Academic Catalog. Appeals may not be made
for advanced placement examinations or course bypass examinations. Appeals are limited to the final
course grade, which may be upheld, raised, or lowered at any stage of the appeal process. Any
recommendation to lower a course grade must be submitted through the Academic Vice President to the
Faculty Assembly Grade Appeals Committee for review and approval. The Faculty Assembly Grade
Appeals Committee may instruct that the course grade be upheld, raised, or lowered to a more proper
evaluation.

Grading
Attendance including Discussion Board 160
(first post by class date Tuesday/rest by following Monday)
Field Based Observation 6 hours 40

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(due 4-27-21)
Site based Management Plan (due 5-4-21) 150
Ethics unit (due 4-27-21) 50
Book Reflection/Final Exam (due 5-11-21) 100

Tentative Schedule:
Week 1 (3-23-2021): AT TSTC ROOM 126 6PM
Reading Assignment 1-57

Week 2 (3-30-2021): ONLINE

Reading Assignment 60-108

Week 3 (4-6-2021): ON ZOOM 6PM

Reading Assignment 112-170

Week 4 (4-13-2021): ONLINE

Reading Assignment 174-207

Week 5 (4-20-2021): ON ZOOM 6PM

Reading Assignment 208-227

Week 6 (4-27-2021): ONLINE

Due: field observation by email by 4-27-21 at midnight

Reading Assignment 228-268

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  VIDEO Texas Education Agency Ethics Video – You Tube
Module 1 all three parts.

 Module 2 of TEA Ethics Training – 2 parts for Ethics

Training

 Module Three for TEA ethics training all 3 parts

 TEA Ethics training Module 4 – 2 parts

ALL ETHICS MODULES DUE BY 4-27-21

Week 7 (5-4-2021): ON ZOOM 6PM

Reading Assignment 272-304

Week 8 (5-11-2021): ONLINE

Book Reflection: Teaching to Change Lives (emailed to me
by 1159pm 5-11-21)

Assignment: School Site Management Manual: Design

WRITTEN procedures for your classroom. Include procedures for
your classroom that focus on the instructional process. (ie) Class
discussions, working in groups, note taking, students correcting
(ie) getting student attention, classroom jobs, pencil management,
missing assignments, infraction notice. Develop procedures for
how you are going to handle specific issues – (ie) new student
orientation, death of a student, death of a parent, substitute
teacher handbook, parent volunteers, parent teacher conferences,
back to school night. There will be a rubric posted in blackboard.
Full manual DUE TO ME 5-4-21
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