Teacher's Guide to Including Students with Disabilities in General Physical Education - Softcover

Block, Martin E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557664633 ISBN 13: 9781557664631

Publisher: Brookes Publishing, 2000

Synopsis

This revised version has more strategies and ideas on how to include students with disabilities of all ages in general physical education classes. With updated information based on IDEA 1997, this resource helps educators and administrators make the mandated changes necessary for successful inclusion--emphasizing collaborative teaming, including families and their goals in the physical education curriculum, and raising the expectations for children with disabilities. New to this edition are chapters on behaior management, classroom safety, adapted aquatics, and the social aspects of inclusion. Throughout the book, reproducible forms help teachers reach their goals of providing quality, individualized physical education for all their students as they easily organize objectives, plan activities, and track students' progress.

About this title

About the Author

Martin E. Block, Ph.D., Associate Professor with the Kinesiology Program in the Curry School of Education, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia has been the co-director of the adapted physical education specialist for Prince William County Public Schools in Virginia and the Ivymount School, a private school for children with disabilities, in Maryland. Dr. Block has conducted numerous workshops around the country for physical educators, special educators, therapists, and paraprofessionals on how to better include children with disabilities in general physical education, and he has co-authored more than 40 articles on adapted physical education. He als has served as Chair of the Adapted Physical Activity Council and Motor Development Academy for the American Alliance of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance. Dr. Block's current research interests focus on improving in-service training to practicing physical educators as well as studying the perceptions of inclusive physical education by students with and without disabilities, general and adapted physical educators, parents, and administrators.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brookes Publishing
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1557664633
• ISBN 13: 9781557664631
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 397