EDU 525: Supervision of Student Conduct

Overview

Promoting and managing student conduct is both supervisory and instructional. From a supervisory point of view, the school administrator is charged with developing and maintaining a set of standards of conduct for students that ensure that proper school behavior is exhibited. From an instructional point of view, the school administrator is charged with educating students on the proper behaviors for maintaining self-discipline, and compliance with rules of conduct and good order. Thus, the course serves two purposes.

This course will prepare a school principal or building-level supervisor for establishing and maintaining a program of student conduct in a K-12 educational institution. This course is conducted as a practicum, in that it provides the student with practical, hands-on experiences in developing a student conduct program for a school. The course covers established principles and practices of K-12 student conduct supervision.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Identify and correctly interpret state and local laws and policies related to establishing and maintaining proper student conduct.
• Identify the constituencies within the local school that have an interest in student conduct and what their interest is.
• Identify and catalog those elements of a student conduct handbook that pertain to the local school.
• Identify school policies, rules, and strategies related to student conduct.
• Establish a set of constructs for school climate conducive to creating a student code of conduct.
• Instruct school staffs and the school community on the established policies, rules, and strategies; and the methods for implementing such standards.
• Establish methods for dealing with violations of standards and instruct staff on the proper actions to be taken.
• Develop a system for enforcing discipline in the school, including procedures for suspension and expulsion of students.
• Develop particular strategies for accommodating the conduct of special needs students, particularly those students with behavioral issues related to a disability.
• Establish referral methods to community resources for students and their families with student conduct needs, particularly those related to a disability.
• Establish the outlines of a program to manage student conduct in a school.
• Establish the proper role and philosophy of an educator in teaching and enforcing student conduct.

Required Texts
EDU 525 texts are available from the JIU/MBS bookstore