Prin Art & Ph Ed Stdnt W/Dsab G7-12

Catalog description

This course focuses on the performing arts, health, physical education, and family and consumer sciences for students with disabilities in grades 7-12. Course topics include cooperation in group sport and arts activities; the relationship of physical education and health education to other curricula areas; approaches to acquire the necessary knowledge and skills to establish and maintain physical fitness, participate in physical activity and maintain personal health for students with disabilities; approaches to acquire the knowledge and ability necessary to create and maintain a safe and healthy environment and to understand and be able to manage personal and community resources for students with disabilities; planning and designing co-teaching and collaborative work with other teachers; approaches to adaptive physical education for students with disabilities; self-expression, self-regulation, and self-exploration through the arts; the relationship of the arts, movement, physical education, and health education to other curricula areas, including literacy; and approaches to doing work in the arts with students with disabilities.