Case Studies in Adapted Physical Education: Empowering Critical Thinking

Covering self-contained adapted physical education classes, general physical education programs, and youth sports and community recreation, this book presents a series of case studies of teaching individuals of varied ability and disability in physical activity settings. Outlining realistic scenarios, it encourages an interactive, problem-solving teaching and learning style and the development of critical thinking skills. Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, the book covers a wide range of different professional issues, themes, disabilities, and conditions, from assessment and behavior management processes to working with students with intellectual disabilities, motor difficulties, chronic illness, or obesity. Each case study includes questions that challenge the reader to reflect on the practical issues involved and how to build inclusive teaching strategies. This book is valuable reading for all physical education students, teacher candidates, and novice and experienced teachers looking to deepen their understanding of adapted physical education and to improve their professional practice. It is an essential companion to any adapted physical education or physical activity course.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Hodge, Samuel

Murata, Nathan

Block, Martin

Lieberman, Lauren

Exercise & Fitness

Routledge

Essentials of Teaching Adapted Physical Education: Diversity, Culture, and Inclusion offers a wealth of knowledge for teaching today's diverse student population, including those with disabilities. Readers will learn how to teach a variety of students, organize learning within various curricular models, assess and evaluate students, and manage behavior. Readers will also learn more about the conditions and disabilities they may encounter when teaching, how to understand students' various abilities, and how to adapt and modify instructional methods to include all students.The book emphasizes the importance of being culturally responsive and acquiring the necessary knowledge to infuse appropriate, socially just practices into educational settings. Future teachers will learn how to apply culturally responsive instructional methods and behavior management strategies and will understand broader social and economic contexts for their students' behavior.At the same time, this book provides more than a how-to approach to teaching adapted physical education. Its content and features promote reflective learning, encouraging readers to anticipate the types of teaching situations and challenges that may arise and think through how they will respond. Scenarios and vignettes throughout provide context for the material and promote critical thinking and problem solving.

Essentials of Teaching Adapted Physical Education: Diversity, Culture, and Inclusion

Sports & Outdoors

Get up to date on the latest and most useful strategies for successfully integrating children with disabilities in physical education. Strategies for Inclusion: A Handbook for Physical Educators dispels myths about instructing children with disabilities and provides guidelines for appropriate inclusion in the least restrictive environment.
Strategies for Inclusion: A Handbook for Physical Educators sets the stage with a clear discussion of current disabilities legislation and its impact on K-12 teachers. Next, using real-life examples to illustrate each point, it provides solid advice on these issues: -Making placement decisions 
-Developing and implementing a physical education Individual Education Plan (IEP) 
-Assessing students using traditional methods or creating functional rubrics for any unit
-Adapting activities sports and recreation to meet unique needs
-Overcoming blanket medical excuses
-introducing disability/ability awareness activities 
-training peer tutors 
-using support personnel
-using homework in physical education 
-using the community to facilitate inclusion The authors present ready-to-use skill-related rubrics for the quantitative and qualitative assessment of children both with and without disabilities. The 38 units of instruction include -16 elementary units, 
-11 sports units, 
-8 recreation units, and 
-5 fitness units. In each unit you'll also find flexible and creative tips to make inclusion easier, including adapting the teaching environment, using rule changes, modifying equipment, and adjusting your teaching style and methods.
The book includes these useful teaching tools: -Case studies with helpful questions and answers
-Teaching tips that give hands-on solutions for teachers
-Discussion and comparison of assessment tools
-A Unit Finder that makes it easy to locate units according to the sport or activity involved
-Resource indexes with a myriad of additional tools, including a glossary of disabilities in kid terms, a peer tutor training guide, disability awareness activities, a list of organizations, equipment companies, and a list of state directors of special education Strategies for Inclusion: A Handbook for Physical Educators empowers current and future teachers to create inclusive classrooms where every child can fully participate in fun and health-building physical education.

Strategies for Inclusion: A Handbook for Physical Educators

Houston-Wilson, Cathy

Human Kinetics

Assessment for Everyone expands on selected books in NASPEs Assessment Series to ensure that physical education teachers can assess all students, including those with disabilities, in a variety of ways. Helps physical educators create instructional alignment by using assessment to determine students abilities &amp; develop appropriate instruction for each student.

Assessment for Everyone: Modifying Naspe Assessments to Include All Elementary School Children

Business & Money

Kowalski, Ellen

Education & Reference

Amer Alliance for Health Physical

Essentials of Teaching Adapted Physical Education: Diversity, Culture, and Inclusion offers a wealth of knowledge for teaching today's diverse student population, including those with disabilities. Readers will learn how to teach a variety of students, organize learning within various curricular models, assess and evaluate students, and manage behavior. Readers will also learn more about the conditions and disabilities they may encounter when teaching, how to understand students' various abilities, and how to adapt and modify instructional methods to include all students. The book emphasizes the importance of being culturally responsive and acquiring the necessary knowledge to infuse appropriate, socially just practices into educational settings. Future teachers will learn how to apply culturally responsive instructional methods and behavior management strategies and will understand broader social and economic contexts for their students' behavior. At the same time, this book provides more than a how-to approach to teaching adapted physical education. Its content and features promote reflective learning, encouraging readers to anticipate the types of teaching situations and challenges that may arise and think through how they will respond. Scenarios and vignettes throughout provide context for the material and promote critical thinking and problem solving.

Coaching

The case studies in this book provide readers with opportunities to think critically about real-life situations that arise when working with children with varied abilities and disabilities, as well as opportunities to question and explore and to empower themselves in the process. The case scenarios illustrate actual experiences faced by a diverse group of general and adapted physical educators representing various contexts from self-contained APE classes and inclusive GPE (elementary, middle, and high school; urban, rural, and suburban) to youth sports, community recreation, and health club settings. When reading the book, pre-service and in-service teachers will be exposed to the issues facing physical educators as changes in federal law further mandate the inclusion of students with disabilities in general physical education classes and after-school sports. Identifying with the situations and characters in the cases will encourage readers to explore such issues as diversity and disability, attitude and ethics, behavior management and conflict resolution, and inclusion strategies. Questions following each case prompt readers to identify the critical issues and how the physical education professionals dealt with those issues, and then determine whether they would have handled the issues in the same way. Analyzing and discussing the cases will enable readers to formulate strategies for dealing with related issues and better prepare them to provide safe, satisfying, and successful physical activity experiences to individuals with varied abilities.

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Case Studies in Adapted Physical Education: Empowering Critical Thinking

Case Studies in Adapted Physical Education: Empowering Critical Thinking

Essentials of Teaching Adapted Physical Education: Diversity, Culture, and Inclusion

Strategies for Inclusion: A Handbook for Physical Educators

Assessment for Everyone: Modifying Naspe Assessments to Include All Elementary School Children

Essentials of Teaching Adapted Physical Education: Diversity, Culture, and Inclusion

Case Studies in Adapted Physical Education: Empowering Critical Thinking

Essentials of Teaching Adapted Physical Education: Diversity, Culture, and Inclusion