Christopher M. Hansen
Assistant Professor of Elementary Education, Illinois State University
Chapter Member: Chicagoland SSN
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About Christopher
Hansen’s research focuses on critical pedagogy and social justice in the elementary literacy classroom and in teacher education. In addition; Hansen has forthcoming published research in preparing teacher candidates for urban teaching contexts. Hansen also is a faculty collaborator with Mclean County; IL schools teacher preparation efforts. He is a former urban elementary school teacher in Texas and Georgia.
Contributions
Measuring the Dispositions That Make Teachers Effective
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Publications
A Mixed Method Case Study of Seven STAR Teachers in Chicago (with ), in Better Teachers: The Martin Haberman Legacy, edited by Valerie Hill-Jackson (ASCD, forthcoming).
Explores the qualitative outcomes of in-service teacher dispositional research in Chicago Public School teachers who had attended Illinois State University for their undergraduate teaching certificate program.
What Makes a STAR Teacher? Examining the Dispositions of K-12 Urban Teachers in ChicagoWhat Makes a STAR Teacher? Examining the Dispositions of K-12 Urban Teachers in Chicago (with ), Illinois State University College of Education, 2015.
Presents a comprehensive look at preliminary findings from a mixed-methods, teacher dispositions research project of in-service teachers in Chicago Public Schools.