Build student responsibility, strengthen classroom relationships, and respond to challenging behavior with greater clarity, consistency, and professional judgment.
Explore a relationship-centered approach to discipline that helps educators reduce power struggles, provide meaningful choices, and guide students toward greater responsibility for their own behavior.
University Credit Available • 3 Semester Credits
Choose Your Credit Path
The course learning experience is completed through CEUs for Teachers. Your credit pathway determines how your work is evaluated and recorded.
Choose this pathway when you need continuing education units for professional development or license renewal.
ED 101 is approved for 3 semester credits through Adams State University and Ashland University.
University Credit
If you want university credit, both steps below are required.
Purchase ED 101 through CEUs for Teachers to access the course, readings, discussions, interactive activities, and assignments.
Enroll in ED 101Complete a separate university registration through Adams State University or Ashland University for the university-credit option.
Choose Your UniversityWhy This Course?
ED 101 helps educators examine discipline through the lens of relationships, responsibility, choices, consequences, and calm teacher responses.
Practice strategies that help you respond to challenging behavior without escalating the situation.
Use choices and consequences to help students think through decisions and take greater ownership.
Explore how connection, empathy, and consistent boundaries can support a more productive classroom climate.
What You’ll Learn
The course combines the Teaching with Love and Logic text with practical classroom applications, interactive simulations, discussion, and reflection.
Examine common assumptions about discipline and consider how teacher responses influence student behavior.
Explore how meaningful choices can support responsibility and reduce unnecessary conflict.
Differentiate assumptions about a situation from the observable behavior that actually needs a response.
Consider the relationship between achievement, self-concept, responsibility, and classroom behavior.
Practice enforceable statements, preparation strategies, and calm responses to challenging behavior.
Analyze interventions and select strategies that fit authentic classroom situations.
Required Reading
You will need access to the Teaching with Love & Logic book while completing ED 101.
The course follows the book in sections. Read the assigned portion before completing the corresponding module activities.
What’s Included
Inside ED 101
Each module pairs assigned reading with practical strategies, interactive application, reflection, and classroom decision-making.
Examine teacher-student relationships, educator influence, observable behavior versus interpretation, challenging-behavior patterns, and strategies for reducing unnecessary classroom battles.
Explore possible functions of behavior, antecedents, environmental influences, skill deficits, meaningful choices, shared control, and the difference between negotiable and non-negotiable expectations.
Learn to recognize escalation, reduce emotional intensity, use proactive classroom-management strategies, establish clear limits, and communicate with concise, enforceable language.
Connect responsibility, self-concept, cause and effect, mistakes, problem solving, logical outcomes, dignity, and relationship repair to more effective behavior support.
Strengthen classroom communication through clear expectations, requests versus commands, precise directions, appropriate choices, consistent follow-through, and proportionate responses.
Examine teacher-student connection, educator triggers, adult emotional regulation, proximity, nonverbal strategies, precision commands, relationship repair, and professional judgment.
Bring the entire course together through complex case labs, observation-versus-interpretation analysis, behavior-response planning, classroom-language revision, final decision-making scenarios, professional commitments, and a comprehensive final reflection.
How You’ll Complete the Course
ED 101 assesses learning through professional application rather than relying only on traditional objective testing.
Complete assigned sections of Teaching with Love and Logic throughout the course and apply the ideas in reflections, scenarios, discussions, and classroom applications.
Analyze classroom situations, consider multiple possible explanations, select appropriate educator responses, and evaluate likely consequences.
Complete open-ended professional reflections, application activities, classroom-language work, and discussion-board participation across all seven modules.
Develop a comprehensive response plan for a real or realistic recurring classroom behavior, including patterns, possible function, expectations, interventions, student responsibility, and relationship repair.
Identify three specific changes you intend to make in your practice, including when you will use each strategy and what improvement you hope to achieve.
Reflect on how your thinking has changed regarding discipline, behavior, relationships, control, responsibility, communication, adult regulation, and professional judgment.
University Credit Partners
Choose the university option that best fits your needs. University registration is separate from your CEUs for Teachers course enrollment.
ED 101 is approved for 3 semester credits through Adams State University.
First enroll in ED 101 through CEUs for Teachers, then complete the separate Adams State University registration.
Register with Adams StateED 101 is also approved for 3 semester credits through Ashland University.
The Ashland University CEUs for Teachers registration page is still being finalized. The registration link will be added as soon as it is available.
Frequently Asked Questions
ED 101 is a 3-CEU professional development course.
Yes. ED 101 is a book study, so you will need to purchase or borrow a copy of Teaching with Love & Logic: Taking Control of the Classroom.
Yes. ED 101 is online and self-paced. Your enrollment includes one full year of course access beginning on the date of purchase.
The course includes required reading, interactive simulations, scenario and case-study analysis, open-ended reflections, discussion activities, classroom-language analysis, a Behavior Response Plan, professional commitments, and a final professional reflection.
The CEU course uses a Pass/Fail grading scale. University Credit participants receive a traditional letter grade (A–F) according to the requirements of that university-credit option.
Yes. ED 101 is approved for 3 semester credits through both Adams State University and Ashland University. University Credit requires a separate university registration in addition to your CEUs for Teachers course enrollment.
Yes. The syllabus and course requirements are available in the Course Curriculum preview area on this page.
Planning to Take More Courses?
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