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EveryBODY Wins: Adapted Physical Education (EDMA 253)
3 Semester Hours of Credit
*Self-Paced: You are required to schedule two virtual meetings with your instructor – one at mid-term one at the end of the course.
3 Semester Hours of Credit
Developed by Drake University
Graduate Credit-3 semester hours, $660.00 (not including the cost of the textbook)
Spring 2025 Course Dates: January 3 - April 4, 2025
Registration is open. The coursework will be available on January 3, 2025.
*With the rolling semester dates, you may register any time before January 31, 2025, and still get the course completed by April 4, 2025.
ALL ASSIGNMENTS ARE TO BE TURNED IN BY April 4, 2025, but you should be submitting your work as you complete it. You then have two weeks to virtually meet with your instructor before the course ends on April 18, 2025.
Course Description
In EveryBODY Wins: Adapted Physical Education, you will gain an understanding of disability and how it pertains to teaching individuals with disabilities in the physical education environment. Also, you will become familiar with the related legal requirements for these individuals. You will learn about and apply curriculum differentiation techniques to adjust content, instructional strategies, environment, equipment, and assessment methods in anticipation of student need. Course activities, readings, videos and assignments in this course will highlight inclusive practices.
NOTE: if you took the video course EDMA 174 - Adapted Physical Education: EveryBODY Wins before spring semester 2019, you may take this course as well, though we would recommend that you seek prior approval from your school district or appropriate licensing agency, before registering.
Instructor: Laura Reis
Textbook:
Students in this course are responsible for purchasing or renting their own copies of the following text:
A Teacher's Guide to Adapted Physical Education: Including Students with Disabilities in Sports and Recreation, 4th Edition
Martin Block
Paul H Brooks Publishing Company Incorporated, 2015
ISBN: 978-1-59857-669-6
This course may not run as scheduled if we do not reach our minimum number of registrations. Should this occur, all registered students will have the option of receiving a full refund OR rolling the registrations over into the following semester.
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