EDU 26 — Human Relations: Urb Schools
This course provides future teachers (educators) with a deeper knowledge andunderstanding of attitudes and behavioral patterns that affect human relations in the urban school and community. The course emphasizes the development of future teachers professional and personal awareness and knowledge of diverse ethnic, racial, social and cultural patterns of interaction encountered in the urban setting. It expands students grasp of positive strategies for interacting and mediating when those differences are present in the school environment. Group dynamics such as role play, conflict resolution and cross-cultural interactions are used to teach effective applications of these strategies. The course is designed to prepare future teachers, and teacher assistants to interact effectively with peers, administrators, teacher aides, special education personnel, and student personnel services specialists such as counselors, school psychologists, and school social workers.