New Minor at UMD Aims to Create More Adaptive PE Teachers

16th February, 2021

19 February 2021, Newsletter, PT

[Source: Duluth News Tribune]

Public schools are federally mandated to offer developmental physical education to students with disabilities, but teachers aren’t required to be licensed in that area in order to teach it.

A few years ago when Duluth Public Schools was looking to fill a teaching position for developmental adapted physical education, Leigh Ann Viche, a Duluth teacher in the field, said the district struggled to find someone licensed in that area of physical education.

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