Erin Christensen

Teaching Techniques for the Elementary Classroom TeacherBy: Erin ChristensenWith only three techniques, you can turn any classroom into a bright, positive environment. In this simple summary, educators will learn engaging strategies for teaching, classroom management, and building and maintaining relationships with students. Learning targets, peer-to-peer teaching, and goal tracking are just some of the strategies this book provides to help your students become successful independent learners. Refined over more than a decade in the classroom, the visuals and lesson formats presented in this book will help you bring out their best potential. About the AuthorErin Christensen, B. A., B. Ed., is a passionate educator who is licensed in Elementary Education (grades K-6). She is also certified in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL). With ten years of experience teaching in a classroom setting, Christensen has taught both primary and secondary grades. Her commitment and dedication have led to beautiful teaching moments with her students. Christensen grew up in Canada. She is from Sydney, Nova Scotia, a small town located on Cape Breton Island. Christensen now lives in Colorado Springs with her family.

Pre-service and beginning teachers have to negotiate an unfamiliar and often challenging working environment, in both teaching spaces and staff spaces. Workplace Learning in Physical Education explores the workplace of teaching as a site of professional learning. Using stories and narratives from the experiences of pre-service and beginning teachers, the book takes a closer look at how professional knowledge is developed by investigating the notions of ‘professional’ and ‘workplace learning’ by drawing on data from a five year project. The book also critically examines the literature associated with, and the rhetoric that surrounds ‘the practicum’, ‘fieldwork’ ‘school experience’ and the ‘induction year’. The book is structured around five significant dimensions of workplace learning: Social tasks of teaching and learning to teach Performance, practice and praxis Identity, subjectivities and the profession/al Space and place for, and of, learning MicropoliticsAs well as identifying important implications for policy, practice and research methodology in physical education and teacher education, the book also shows how research can be a powerful medium for the communication of good practice. This is an important book for all students, pre-service and beginning teachers working in physical education, for academics researching teacher workspaces, and for anybody with an interest in the wider themes of teacher education, professional practice and professional learning in the workplace.

Pre-service and beginning teachers have to negotiate an unfamiliar and often challenging working environment, in both teaching spaces and staff spaces. Workplace Learning in Physical Education explores the workplace of teaching as a site of professional learning. Using stories and narratives from the experiences of pre-service and beginning teachers, the book takes a closer look at how professional knowledge is developed by investigating the notions of ‘professional’ and ‘workplace learning’ by drawing on data from a five year project. The book also critically examines the literature associated with, and the rhetoric that surrounds ‘the practicum’, ‘fieldwork’ ‘school experience’ and the ‘induction year’. The book is structured around five significant dimensions of workplace learning: Social tasks of teaching and learning to teach Performance, practice and praxis Identity, subjectivities and the profession/al Space and place for, and of, learning MicropoliticsAs well as identifying important implications for policy, practice and research methodology in physical education and teacher education, the book also shows how research can be a powerful medium for the communication of good practice. This is an important book for all students, pre-service and beginning teachers working in physical education, for academics researching teacher workspaces, and for anybody with an interest in the wider themes of teacher education, professional practice and professional learning in the workplace.