Cedar Valley & Walsh MS Partners in Physical Education Program Syllabus

InstructorKatie BivenAdapted Physical Education TeacherOld Town Elementary (Home Campus)Katie_Biven@roundrockisd.orghttp://teacherweb.com/TX/OldTownElementary/Biven/428-7632 (office)

Responsibilities of Cedar Valley & Walsh Partners include:1. Assisting athletes during physical education class by arriving on time, visiting with athletes before

and after class to develop rapport and friendships, helping athletes with practice and performance skills, modeling how to win and lose with grace, assessing and selecting activities for athletes that are appropriate and safe.

2. Assisting the teacher during class by setting up and taking down equipment, leading warm-ups with athletes, repeating directions or physically modeling skills/activities to athletes, selecting appropriate equipment for each athlete.

3. Daily duties include dressing appropriately for physical education class (wearing tennis or athletic shoes), giving positive reinforcement to athletes, demonstrating good work ethic by setting a good example, and, ultimately, to foster friendships and experiences that may last throughout one’s lifetime.

Grading Criteria: 80% Participation20% Blog responses(Partners will also receive a mid term assignment and final exam assignment)

1. Participation- Daily grades will be taken based on readiness to participate (dress), participation, attitude, and positive interaction with athletes.

2. Blog responses-Visit the following website http://partnersinpe.blogspot.com/. I will post five topics related to individuals with disabilities. Each blog post has a website you need to visit and read, look, or watch something. You will need to comment on two posts on the blog each six weeks. Your comments need to be a minimum of five complete sentences.

3. Mid Term: Partners will be able to choose a disability and will research information such as the definition, cause, characteristics, medical considerations, and teaching tips about the given disability. Presentation of researched information should be a minimum of 3 minutes.

4. Final Exam-Partners will participate in a class evaluation providing feedback for the instructor.

Partners will be encouraged to keep class syllabus, handouts, and other materials provided in class in a three-ring binder or other organizer.

Dues Date for Blog ResponsesSeptember 15th, 2009-2 Blog responses dueOctober 27th, 2009-2 Blog responses dueDecember 8th, 2009-2 Blog responses dueFebruary 2nd, 2010-2 Blog responses dueMarch 23rd, 2010-2 Blog responses dueMay 18th, 2010-2 Blog responses due

Partners in PE Program Weekly Schedule

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday FridayTrack/Fitness Day IEP Day Sports Unit Sports Unit Sports Unit

Cedar Valley & Walsh MS Partners in Physical Education Program Syllabus

Journal Assignments Choices1. Person First Language Visit the following website http://www.disabilityisnatural.com/peoplefirstlanguage.htm. What did your learn from reading this webpage?2. Special Education Law Visit the following website http://www.specialeducationlawyers.info/disabilities.htm. What does IDEA mean? What are the disabilities under IDEA? What did you learn about any one or more disabilities?3. What is inclusion?Visit the following website http://www.kidstogether.org/inclusion.htm.What is your own definition of inclusion?4. Focus: Speech Impairment. Visit the following website http://www.nichcy.org/pubs/factshe/fs11txt.htm. In your own words, what does speech impairment mean? What cause a speech impairment?6. Focus: Hearing Impairment/Deafness. Visit the following website http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/diseases_conditions/sight/hearing_impairment.html. **Info at bottom of website page. In your own words, what are some of the causes of hearing impairment/deafness?7. Focus: Hearing Impairment/Deafness. Visit the following website http://www.audiologyawareness.com/hearinfo_impairdeaf.asp. In your own words, what is the difference between hearing impaired and deafness.8. Focus: Hearing Impairment/Deafness. Visit the following website http://deafness.about.com/cs/signlanguage/a/aslfacts.htm. In your own words, what is ASL? How does it compare to spoken language?9. Focus: Hearing Impairment/Deafness. Visit the following website http://commtechlab.msu.edu/SITES/ASLWEB/browser.htm. Use this website to learn how to use American Sign Language to sign your name. Imagine that you were hearing impaired. Do you think it would be lonely, how so?10. Focus: Hearing Impairment/Deafness. Visit the following website http://www.tsd.state.tx.us/. What kind of school is this? Where is this school? What surprised you about it?11. Focus: Visual Impairments/Blindness. Visit the following website http://www.tsbvi.edu/Education/infant/page15.htm. Summarize, what are some of the causes of visual impairments/blindness?12. Focus: Visual Impairments/Blindness. Visit the following website http://www.tsbvi.edu/school/index.htm. What kind of school is this? Where is this school? What surprised you about it?13. Focus: Visual Impairments/Blindness. Visit the following website http://www.usaba.org/Pages/sportsinformation/adaptations/goalballadapt.html. What is the website? In your own words, what is goalball? How is it played?14. Focus: Orthopedic Impairments. Visit the following website http://www.ssd.k12.mo.us/Parents/disability_categories/orthopedic_impairment.html. In your own words, what does orthopedic impairment mean? What causes orthopedic impairments?15. Focus: Orthopedic Impairments. Visit the following website http://www.as.wvu.edu/~scidis/motor.html#sect1. These are general courtesies to remember when interacting with someone with an orthopedic impairment. What did you learn?16. Focus: Orthopedic Impairments. Visit the following website http://www.newdisability.com/videos.htm. What was this website about? What did you see that surprised you?17. Focus: Autism. Visit the following website http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/overview.htm. In your own words, what is

Cedar Valley & Walsh MS Partners in Physical Education Program Syllabus

autism? Who is affected? How is it detected?18. Focus: Autism. Visit the following website http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/overview.htm. In your own words, what is ASD? What causes autism/ASD?19. Focus: Autism. Visit the following website www.autism.com. List some of the tips to use in working with a student with autism. What do you think about some of the tips listed on the website?20. Focus: Mental Retardation. Visit the following website http://www.tahperd.org/LINKS/links_popups/links_popup_APE_factsheets.html and click on Mental Retardation. In your own words, what is the definition, cause, and levels of Mental Retardation?21. Focus: Mental Retardation. Visit the following website http://www.tahperd.org/LINKS/links_popups/links_popup_APE_factsheets.html and click on Mental Retardation. In your own words, what is signs, symptoms, characteristics, of an individual with Mental Retardation? Also, list two teaching tips.

22. Focus: Special Olympics. Visit the following website www.specialolympics.org, click on “About US” on top of page. In your own words, what is Special Olympics all about? Which individuals participate in Special Olympic sports? List six sports/activities that are offered through Special Olympics.23. Focus: Paralympics. Visit www.paralympic.org, click IPC on left side of screen. In your own words, what is the IPC and what are they committed to? What is an IOSDs, what are the names of the four IOSDs ?24. Focus: Special Olympics & Paralympics, same thing? Visit the following website http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-41-1363-8441/sports/paralympics/clip10, listen to the audio player or click to the box right of the audio player. In your own words, what is the difference between Special Olympics & Paralympics?25. Focus: Orthropedic Sports: Life Rolls On: Surfing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1NtrwAOhwM&feature=related. Watch the video, what did you think of the video? What did you think of the people in the video and the adapted equipment?26. Focus: Orthopedic Sports: Team Hoyt:Go to www.youtube.com and search “Team Hoyt” Watch the video, in your own words, what is this team all about, how did they get started, and what have they accomplished?27. Focus: Blind Sports: Goal ball video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MLbC3er2Fc. Watch the video, in your own words, how is goalball played?28. Focus: Blind Sports: Keep Your Ear on the Ball Documentary: Go to www.youtube.com and search “Keep your ear on the ball” Watch the video, How were these people in the documentary like you? How were they different?29. Focus: Autism Issues: The Documentary: Austim Every Day: Go to www.youtube.com and search “Autism Everyday” Watch the video, How did this video make you feel? How will it impact your life from now on?30. Murderball Highlights-Mark Zupan Reebok commercial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV2CqWU1PJk&feature=related. What was the message of this video? Do you think differently about people in wheelchairs now? Why?

31. Focus: Inclusion: Homecoming Queen Go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-qTfoJER18Watch the video, in your own words, what was the video about and how did it make you feel?32. Focus: Paraolympics-Photography http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/09/2008_summer_paralympic_games.html Check out the photos, what did you see that surprised you or you hadn’t see before? Which photo was your favorite and why?33. Focus: Politically Correct-R Word : Go to http://www.sotx.org/news-events/rword/ or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRUOL5Rm2XYCheck out the website, what is it all about? What did you see and how did you feel?34. Focus: Camp Summit: Go to www.campsummittx.org and click “What is Camp Summit” and tell me what is Camp Summit-who goes there. Go back to the main page and click “Photo Album” What did you

Cedar Valley & Walsh MS Partners in Physical Education Program Syllabus

see and what did you think?