Physical Education at an Elementary Grade Level

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TARGETED GRADE LEVEL: Elementary

Explain your vision of the ideal learning environment for the age and subject you intend to teach in a 3 – 5 page original paper. You must answer the questions below, using a 12-point font and double-spaced. Then, complete the behavior management plan that supports your vision using the form provided.
1 How do you create and maintain a mutually respectful and collaborative class of actively engaged learners? Include how it responds to student needs and incorporates student strengths and personal experiences. You must use research to support your selection of these strategies and identify and explain the research.
There are various approaches to designing and sustaining a mutually collaborative and respectful classroom of increasingly active students. Achieving this goal at the elementary level in a physical education class requires strategies such as creating trusting relationships, behaving ethically, and using explicit instruction techniques.
Creating Trusting Relationships
Creating a trusting relationship is associated with a collaborative and respectful class of engaged learners. Indeed, according to Waterford.Org (2019), various learner issues can be resolved by trusting relationships, especially chronic absenteeism and lack of motivation. In this case, chronic absenteeism is now common among learners and has significant implications for successful learning. During the early stages of schooling, this type of absenteeism is a predictor of dropping out in the later stages of schooling. With escalating absenteeism, the chances of establishing a solid relationship become challenging to remedy with time. Meanwhile, learners who have had adverse experiences with adults may have challenges trusting teachers. This trust is also lost when learners have had negative experiences with teachers before. Building trusting relationships becomes a means of engaging learners to make them love class, become motivated, and participate actively in class. Ideally, trusting relationships provide opportunities for teachers to be viewed by students as a mentor and become involved in classroom activities. Learners who know teachers care about them become motivated to learn and succeed academically.
Behaving Ethically
Another significant step in achieving this goal is behaving ethically. This strategy is also another means to earn student trust. According to Cooper (2019), behaving ethically serves as a framework for the interests of teachers and students can be safeguarded. Behaving ethically needs to valorize various principles, including confidentiality, conflict of interest, honesty, and responsibility. Fulfilling the ethical requirements entails observing sociocultural values. In doing so, the teacher becomes placed to provide student-centered learning. The failure to uphold ethical values creates a host of issues that jeopardize learning goals, including creating a conflict of interest and mistrust that hurts mutually respectful and collaborative relationships.
Explict instruction techniques
The use of explicit instruction techniques also has a place in fostering and maintaining a mutually collaborative and respectful classroom of active students. According to Cooper (2019), it is increasingly crucial to ensure the instruction techniques are engaging, support clear communication, and are tailored to satisfy the interests of the respective learners. If they are effectively designed, they encourage the students to own the learning process and be motivated to meet the classroom expectations. The process of selecting and implementing effective practices of instruction delivery is the work of teachers. The starting point of this process is to assess the strengths, capabilities, and weaknesses of learners and develop tailored strategies.
2 What strategies will you use to build relationships with students? Use research to support your selection of these strategies and identify and explain the research.
There are various approaches to applied in building healthy relationships with the learners. Examples of these effective strategies are spending one-on-one time with students, developing interests in what learners love, and use of emotional intelligence.
One-on-one Time with a Student
Having one-on-one time with learners helps in building working relationships. According to Barile (2022), this strategy provides an opportunity to connect, know each other more, and understand. However, to achieve the objectives, the one-on-one sessions should be structured in a way that they are pleasant and conversational. This strategy becomes a basis for ironing out some issues that extend to classrooms. For instance, a typical classroom has students that feel lost or whose voices are never heard (Barile, 2022). The one-on-one sessions provide an opportunity for these groups of learners to have the full attention of the teacher. In doing so, they feel appreciated
Develop An Interest In What They Love
Developing an interest in what learners love is equally significant in helping build lasting relationships. Learners can have diverse preferences, including music, video games, sports, and films. Developing interest in these topics can help connect with learners that hard to reach (Barile, 2022). For instance, ...