APENS Standard 11 - Consultation and Staff Development

The highest level of Maslow’s hierarchy is:

• Physiological needs

• Safety

• Self-actualization

• Self-esteem

If a physical educator is experiencing fear, anxiety, and confusion related to including students with disabilities, a good consulting strategy would be:

• To provide the teacher with knowledge and information related to disabling conditions

• To assess the teacher’s lesson plans

• To teach the classes that the teacher feels uncomfortable teaching

• To reassure the teacher that these feelings will pass with time

Parents and classroom teachers are key personnel in the development of:

• DDA

• The individualized education program

• The Americans with Disabilities Act

• ARD

To begin the process of developing organizational change, it is important to:

• Contact an attorney

• Threaten administrators

• Emphasize segregated programming

• Provide education, experience, and motivation

In site-based management, decisions are made:

• By parents

• At the state board

• At the regional level

• At the school level

The first step in developing a curriculum is:

• Selecting educational activities

• Determining educational purpose

• Organizing experiences

• Evaluating objectives

When there are questions related to their children’s individualized education program, parents should contact:

• Another parent

• The school superintendent

• The Parent-Teacher Association

• The primary teacher

Physical education goals and objectives written in an individualized education program should:

• Be evaluated on a regular basis

• Not be confidential and reviewed only at team meetings

• Not be measurable

• Be used to evaluate the teachers’ lesson plans

Specially designed physical education programs are:

• Developed by the physical educator in daily lesson plans

• Outlined in the student’s individualized education program

• Provided only when scheduling allows

• Not always available

A program for assisting parents with teaching motor skills to their child with disabilities is:

• Movement Merry-Go-Round

• Project Parents

• Let’s Play to Grow

• Brockport Physical Fitness Test