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. Accordin...