A Teacher's Guide to Including Students with Disabilities in General Physical Education (Teachers' Guides to Inclusive Practices) [Paperback]

Martin E. Block (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2000 | ISBN-10: 1557664633 | ISBN-13: 978-1557664631 | Edition: 2nd

This newly revised version is packed with state-of-the-art strategies and ideas on how to include students of all ages with disabilities in general physical education classes. With updated information based on IDEA 1997, this resource helps you 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. Throughout the book, reproducible forms will help you easily organize objectives, plan activities, and track student progress. In addition to extensive revisions, new to this edition are chapters on behavior management classroom safety adapted aquatics social aspects of inclusion

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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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 397 pages
• Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company; 2nd edition (January 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1557664633
• ISBN-13: 978-1557664631
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,932,320 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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