Teacher Training
Edgewood Center for Children and Families’ approach to classroom management is to offer techniques and strategies that can improve student behavior, attitude and motivation not based solely on discipline.
Using materials from CHAMPS, a proactive and positive approach to classroom management, and information gathered at Edgewood, the CMS program gives teachers tools to make decisions about how THEY want to run their classrooms.
Training Structure:
- 12–15 hours of instruction
- Video, peer work groups, exercises, and discussions
- Observation, coaching and feedback
Sources for our training program include:
location
Edgewood's Teacher Training program is currently in three schools in the San Francisco Unified School District. They are:
Previous locations include: Charles Drew Elementary, Treasure Island Elementary, Flynn Elementary, Sanchez Elementary, Paul Revere Elementary, Hillcrest Elementary, Monroe Elementary, ER Taylor Elementary, Rooftop Elementary, Mission High Schools and the U.C. Berkeley Extension’s Special Education Credentialing program. Who It Helps
Edgewood's Teacher Training assists teacher in implementing effective strategies to manage their classrooms. When a classroom is well managed, students are able to learn better. partners and funders
Edgewood partners with San Francisco Unified School District and accesses private funds to allow us to offer low-cost Teacher Training to schools.
key facts
The goals of the CMS program:
- Provide teachers with the reasons why they hold the keys to much of the behavioral changes in their classroom (A Paradigm Shift).
- Provide teachers with information about behavior management theory that will help to support the first goal, to understand the cause and effect of behavior.
- Give concrete strategies that are effective and easy to use that will impact behavior in their classrooms.
- Provide opportunities to learn and practice strategies with a group of peers and to express concerns about challenges.
- Provide opportunities for teachers to be observed teaching and receive feedback about what is working, not working and why.
- Provide opportunities for teachers to explore issues of resistance and work through struggles with change in a one-on-one format.
The Edgewood Teacher Training Program emphasizes these principles of CHAMPS:
- Classroom organization has a huge impact on student behavior; therefore, teachers carefully structure their classrooms in ways that prompt responsible student behavior.
- Teachers overtly teach students how to behave responsibly (i.e. be successful) in every classroom situation.
- Teachers focus more time, attention, and energy on acknowledging responsible behavior than on responding to misbehavior.
- Teachers preplan their responses to misbehavior to ensure that they will respond in a brief, calm and consistent manner.
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