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Most time spent as an itinerant APE specialist
What is direct instruction?
Be sure to take advantage of the extensive knowledge of these school staff members, who spend the most time with your students each day.
Who are paraprofessionals?
This individual is a health professional with specific training in remediation of disability, dysfunction or pain.
Who is the Physical Therapist?
Teaching, assessments, paperwork, travel, collaboration / consultation, advocacy
What is APE Roles?
Adapted physical educators adhere to the definition of physical education under this act put unto place in 2004.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act?
Most important part of direct instruction
What is preplanning?
In adapted physical education, it is important to adapt to your...
What is students?
This individual is a health professional who focuses on practical activities and provides services to people with specific performance difficulties in self-care, work, and play activities that limit their ability to deal with tasks of everyday living.
Who is the Occupational Therapist?
Adapted physical educators provide APE instruction and services to students with disabilities who qualify for special education services.
Who is IDEA?
These individuals have content knowledge about assessment, individualized educational planning, effective teaching, and evaluation of teaching effectiveness via student achievement.
What are Adapted physical educators?
CA mandated minutes for every 10 days for Elementary & Secondary
200 & 400
According to the article “Six Tips for Adapted Physical Educators,” this is the most important, yet least acknowledged tip included in the article.
What is to enjoy your job?
This individual focuses on the student’s fundamental locomotor and manipulative/object control skills related to physical activity, motivation, management of behavior, and acquisitions of skills that lead to a healthy, physically active lifestyle.
Who is the Adapted Physical Educator?
State license and bachelors in PE, 9 semester hours specific to APE, minimum 150 practicum experience.
What is the minimum standard for APE Teachers?
Disability Studies, Report Writing, Special Education Law, and Behavior Management are all examples of this group of recommended content.
What is content knowledge of highly qualified APE Teachers?
At the beginning of the year, an APE specialist should do this first
What is scheduling
Keeping up on publications and attending conferences are examples of this tip for new APE teachers.
What is staying connected?
This individual facilitates the specialist’s goals by providing opportunities for students to study and research curriculum and practice appropriate interpersonal skills with classmates.
Who is the General Physical Educator/Special Education Teacher?
Educational entitlement of all students in the US who are identified as having a disability, guaranteed by the Rehabilitation ACT of 1973 and IDEA
What is Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)?
Who formed a committee to develop a position paper defining the term “highly qualified” as it applies to the discipline of adapted physical education.
What is the Adapted Physical Activity Council? (APAC)
3 items of paperwork that APE specialists have
What is IEPs, Assessment Reports, and Data Tracking
Instead of focusing on the negative people, try to focus on these people, who provide positive feedback, and make the work teachers do worth doing.
Who are day makers?
This individual has a broad specialization in the area of recreation and leisure activities, including art, aquatics, music, dance, drama, horticulture, and outdoor recreation.
Who is the Therapeutic Recreation Specialist?
requires all elementary students to receive a minimum of 200 minutes of physical education instruction every ten school days
What is Education Code Section 51223?
Teachers that have a four-year college degree, a full state teaching license, and demonstrated knowledge of the subject they are teaching
What is a "highly qualified" teacher? (defined by the US DOE)