Trust, Humor, Praise, and Connection for Meaningful Relationships with Students 5643.L26.4427
Prefix/Number ED 555
3 Credits
UAA PACE, 500-Level Upper Division Course
Graded
COURSE OVERVIEW
Educators know the importance of connecting with students. This course focuses on 4 key ideas for making connections and developing relationships: trust, humor, praise, and connection. You’ll work to set intentions for connecting with students using a strategy you’ve not tried! Learn ways to trust your students to participate in and control their own learning. Explore why your sense of humor is a huge asset to keep your classroom lively and healthy. Finally, you’ll take a look at how you praise your students, and create phrases to make sure your students are getting positive, constructive feedback to improve and develop their skills. This course will renew your confidence in developing relationships that benefit students now and in the future.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Analyze the research to understand why relationship-building creates successful learning.
- Set an intention to implement a new-to-you strategy for building relationships with students.
- Describe ways to provide learner agency for your students.
- List ideas for incorporating humor in your classroom.
- Reflect on professional growth and articulate how learning from this course focused on trust, humor, praise and connections will impact students and the broader educational community.
Course Syllabus This is a preview syllabus only. The official syllabus will be provided to you with your login information.
- Methods of Instruction - Videos, readings and written responses. No quizzes, midterms or finals. All readings are within the online environment.
- Course Grading Rubric
Grade Levels: K-12
IMPORTANT DATES & INFORMATION
This Teaching Channel course is fully self-paced—you may register and begin at any time.
Current Session
- Registration Deadline: October 15, 2026
- Coursework Due: November 15, 2026 (you may finish earlier)
- Grades Released: September 2, 2026
Please allow up to two weeks from this date—or from your completion date thereafter—for your grade to be processed and delivered to ASDN.
Next Session
- Registration opens October 16, 2026, with coursework due April 15, 2027, and grades released beginning January 2, 2027.
Cancellation Policy
You may cancel within one week of registration. A $125 cancellation fee will apply.
Extensions or transfers are not permitted.
TUITION
PROVIDER DETAILS
Contact the Teaching Channel directly for questions specific to coursework. Email: instructor@teachingchannel.com or call at 1-877-394-4930. Contact ASDN for registration or transcript questions.