Benefitting from Support

Your students benefit from support, but so do you. This final module explores ways you can get the support you and your students need to be at your best. Support can be directive (active) or nondirective (passive). It may come from a variety of sources including families and colleagues. Support can even come from within yourself as you practice stress reduction strategies that lead to resilient attitudes and behaviors.

The Final Chord of this module concludes with a culminating activity which draws upon the content you've learned and practiced throughout the entire course.

At the completion of this Module, you will be able to:

• Complete, implement, and evaluate a Plan for Motivating Change in Behavior.
• Identify and explain strategies for establishing and maintaining a rapport with parents throughout the school year.
• Plan, implement, and evaluate a parent-teacher conference using the five phases taught in this course.
• Plan, implement, and evaluate strategies for stress reduction, personal renewal, and colleague support to avoid teacher burnout and maintain personal resilience.
• Generalize course content to reflect how multicultural and diverse populations within classrooms have their needs met via the application of the skills, strategies, and knowledge of this course.
• Reflect on the ways personal beliefs affect practice, adjust accordingly, and actively seek out opportunities to grow professionally using the knowledge and skills of this course.