core power yoga seattle

speaker: what's this? how do we get started for p.e.? ready? speaker: alright, p.e.'s starting! toni bader: we will do our five minute dance party rock-out as our warm-up.

core power yoga seattle, we'll go to our fitness stations, do the dash, do our flexability and muscular functioning. toni bader: every student should have the opportunity to have physical activity, physical education. speaker: reach, reach, reach, beep!

toni bader: what we need to do is find how that works for our students with disabilities. making accommodations, modifications, so they can access the general p.e. curriculum. toni bader: we have a great team here. our classroom teacher, the general p.e. teacher, we have the physical therapist we have the occupational therapist, so we have everybody working together so that we can meet the unique needs of a lot of our students with severe disabilities. speaker: ready, set, go! go thijs! all the way down! toni bader: for our students, they need to build that cardiorespiratory endurance, they need to build that aerobic capacity

so they can go the office and deliver a message, or when they're out we can start building that endurance so families can talk walks in their neighborhoods. so matching that so that they can be healthy and active in their lives. toni bader: no students should be left out. it is our job to find the avenue for students to be active. it could be having a service model where students are in the general p.e. class but then, they may have a instructional assistant helping them they could be just doing modifications on their own.

some student's may need more adult help or support, or in a self contained setting like we are right now where students are more successful, working in a simpler environment. really looking at what is the student's needs? and how can we help support that student? we really want to have a set curricula, that is the skeleton of what students need to know that go along with common core, and that go along with our state's standards. kids will do more when they're enjoying their time, and so we want them to enjoy understand how to be healthy, and nutrition, and their bodies, so that they can be healthy for their lifetime. toni bader: do you want to try a couple push-ups and then we'll go back?

i just love working with students with disabilities because i get such inspiration of watching izzy today, smiling thijs just going down that hall and just working really hard. i feel like if we provide the opportunity, there's such growth that can be happening and so i get really excited about that, and i feel really excited that our physical education program encompasses all of our students. speaker: there we go! yah!