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

by Samuel Hodge, Lauren Lieberman, Nathan Murata

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138078321
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/10/2017
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	8.25(w) x 10.75(h) x (d)

About the Author

Samuel R. Hodge is a professor in the College of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University, US. He has a dual master's degree in adapted PE and motor behaviors and a doctoral degree in adapted physical education and sport pedagogy. His scholarship is focused primarily on issues pertinent to teacher education and inclusion, preparing teachers to offer adapted PE for diverse students with disabilities, and social justice in education and sports. Service-based interests include leading diversity recruitment and retention programs at The Ohio State University. He has numerous publications to his credit. In 2013 Hodge received the APAC Professional Recognition Award, in recognition of his significant contribution to scholarly publications in adapted physical education, the significant mark he has had made on the lives of others, and his enhancement of the image of people with disabilities in society.

Lauren J. Lieberman is a professor in the Department of Kinesiology, Sport Studies and Physical Education at the College at Brockport, SUNY, US. Her scholarship focus is on inclusion strategies as well as teaching children with sensory impairments. Moreover, her research and service-based interests (e.g., Camp Abilities, a developmental sports camp for children who are blind) involve strategies and programming for working with children who are blind, deaf, or deaf-blind in physical education, sport, and recreation contexts. Dr. Lieberman is also nationally recognized for her research scholarship in peer-tutoring strategies to facilitate inclusion in general physical education classes, and she is the author of multiple publications. In 2012 Lieberman received the APAC Professional Recognition Award, in recognition of her significant contribution to scholarly publications in adapted physical education, the significant mark she has had made on the lives of others, and her enhancement of the image of people with disabilities in society.

Nathan M. Murata is a professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Leisure Science at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, US. He has expertise in both adapted physical education and teacher preparation, and he is a nationally certified adapted physical education professional. In addition to receiving his Bachelor of Education in Secondary Physical Education and his Master of Education, Secondary Education from University of Hawaii at Manoa, Murata received a special education teacher certificate with an emphasis in mild/moderate disabilities and completed a Transition Specialist program, both at UH Manoa. His research foci have included pedagogy for students with disabilities, training support personnel to work in inclusive environments, attitudinal variables regarding the inclusion of students with disabilities in general physical education, and aquatics for individuals with physical disabilities. He is also a principal investigator for the Office of Special Education Programs, Personnel Preparation grant.

Table of Contents

1 Education and Students with Disabilities
2 Teaching a Diversity of Learners
3 Physical Activity and Health
4 Motor Development
5 Inclusive Curricular Models and Instructional Methodology
6 Assessment and Individualized Education Program Development
7 Managing the Environment and Student Behavior
8 Support Personnel in Physical Education
9 Obesity
10 Learning Disabilities
11 Intellectual Disabilities
12 Motor Delays and Developmental Coordination Disorder
13 Visual Impairments, Deafness, Hard-of-Hearing, or Deafblindness
14 Autism Spectrum Disorders
15 Other Health Impairments
16 Teaching Students with Severe or Multiple Disabilities
17 Assistive Technology and Assistive Devices in Physical Education

Editorial Reviews

"The breadth and depth of material covered is very appropriate for undergraduate PETE programs. The review questions for each chapter are highly focused upon key elements and the application of that material to real-world examples." Geoff Davison, Lyndon State College, US

"I found the text to be very user friendly/student-oriented, with the practical applications we need." Libba Woodruff, University of Alabama, US

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