ED-4006A - Safe Schools in Elementary Education

Semester Credits: 3 Weeks: 8

This course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the scope and magnitude of school safety and violence prevention measures in Elementary schools and classrooms. Students will have the opportunity to examine effective school-based intervention strategies and levels of prevention, link interventions to assessment results, as well as monitor changes during intervention. Students will also examine social validity components as they relate to intervention procedures. Students will investigate practical and strategic plans to address traumatic events and how they relate to safe schools at the elementary level.