EDUC 2030 - Human Relations in Education

4.5 Credits

This course is designed to increase multicultural knowledge and positively impact the diversity disposition of pre-service teachers. It is designed to help pre-service teachers become more aware of ways to motivate and positively impact the youth they encounter in their future classrooms. High value is placed on the discussion of human understanding, tolerance, and the acceptance of multiple worldviews. Teacher candidates examine existing attitudes toward various minority groups, such as race, ethnicity, age, sex, and mental and physical disabilities, and explore the ways in which these attitudes influence the assessment of learner needs and prescribed learning activities. Teacher candidates also examine the role of attitudes in implementing and assessing learning experiences. The course places special emphasis on skill development and the training of pre-service teachers to be effective orchestrators of the learning environment, which helps to ensure the performance assessment of teacher candidates.

Lecture Hours: 4.5
Lab Hours: 0
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Course Objectives

Teacher Candidates will recognize how values, lifestyles, contributions, and history of a multicultural pluralistic society influence the classroom teacher’s role as Orchestrator of the Learning Environment.
Teacher Candidates will evaluate the multicultural nature of American society today and the impact of this diversity on the classroom teacher’s role in assessing learner needs and prescription learning activities.
Teacher Candidates will identify the forces of historical bias and how miseducation has impacted the quality of people and human relations development over the past two or three centuries in this country.
Teacher Candidates will recognize dehumanizing biases, including, but not limited to, sexism, racism, prejudice, and discrimination, and develop an awareness of the impact such biases have on interpersonal relationships and the Implementation of Laming Activities.
Teacher Candidates will develop respect for human dignity and individual rights, and relate effectively to other individuals and groups in a multicultural, pluralistic society other than the teacher’s own. Teacher candidates will understand how this will influence their role as Orchestrator of the Learning Environment.

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