County Institute K-8 Assessment in Physical Education for Children with Disabilities 10.7.22

Physical education offers a valuable opportunity to impact all areas of child development (i.e.,
physical, mental, social, and emotional). As such, the purpose of this presentation is to provide
APE and PE teachers with a variety of processes and instruments to be used to measure the
present level of performance and progress of students with special needs in physical education
class. Participants will be exposed to the assessment instruments commonly used in the United
States. The purpose of these instruments is to assess the fundamental skills (e.g., running,
throwing, catching) of school-age children. Even though there are limited assessment
instruments to measure Social Emotional Learning (SEL), strategies to assess and modify the PE
curriculum to attend this area will be presented (E.g., Teaching Social Responsibility Model).
The audience will be actively involved in a variety of physical to accommodate students with
varying ability levels and diverse backgrounds in individual and integrated settings. In addition,
this workshop will provide participants with strategies, activities, and documents that can be
easily modified and implemented in the physical education curriculum when conducting
assessment(s). Lastly, participants will be able to write short and long-term goals according to
the current level of performance of the students.