Sep 28, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024

EDCR 2100 - Introduction to Teaching in a Democratic Classroom


Defines and begins to develop the teaching skills necessary for creating and teaching in a democratic classroom. Examines a variety of teaching methods that provide a positive educational climate in which every adolescent is encouraged to meet personal academic challenges. Students encouraged to begin to develop a personal teaching platform and an emerging identity as teacher.

Requisites: EDCR 1010 and 2010 and 2015 and CARE Students only
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • The student will begin to gather and organize a personal collection of methods and strategies that will prove useful in his/her area of concentration.
  • The student will demonstrate an ability to plan effective lessons utilizing a variety of democratic teaching methods and strategies introduced in this course.
  • The student will demonstrate an understanding of the conditions necessary for developing an educational community within the classroom.
  • The student will demonstrate an understanding of the theories of democratic instruction.
  • The student will demonstrate the ability to analyze and evaluate his/her own teaching experiences in this course.


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