Elementary Physical Education Specialists: A Commitment to Student Learning

There are' 'too few studies which explore the subjective world of teachers terms of their conceptions of what is salient" (Lortie, 1973, p. 490). Familiarity, argued, has dulled our curiosity about how teachers perceive their work. monograph is intended to refocus our attention on the lives of seven teachers, understand what it is they do in schools with young children, how they do, and why it is these teachers continue to struggle, day after day and year after, to provide quality experiences for children in the gymnasium despite the of factors that question the validity of their work. specific purpose of this study was to investigate the work and beliefs effective elementary physical education teachers. We attempted to do that in ways by looking first at how they started the school year, how they planned accomplish the long- and short-term goals they had established; and we interviewed several times to learn about their perspectives on teaching: what cared about as teachers and what kinds of expectations they had for their students