Adaptive physical education & a Sandwich homecoming | Teachers’ Lounge Podcast

As I document the intro to this new episode of Teachers’ Lounge, I’m in my car or truck at Dummer Elementary Faculty in Sandwich, Illinois. Longtime listeners of this show may well know that I’m from Sandwich. I can see baseball fields I performed at and a couple faculties I went to from where I’m sitting down. I went to this university, Dummer, for 4th and 5th quality!

The reason I’m below now is that this week on the demonstrate is Cara Ryan! She’s a bodily schooling teacher who specializes in adaptive P.E. for students with disabilities. She’s also taught 4th and 5th grade common physical training in Sandwich at Dummer for practically a decade.

And, nearly 10 a long time back, I assisted train P.E. with Cara at this exact college! In my senior calendar year of substantial college, I received the possibility to support her out, work on some lesson plans, all that fantastic things. For the host of a podcast known as Teachers’ Lounge, this was as near as I have ever gotten to getting a teacher. And this is wherever I utilised to park in the afternoon when I came to assist set up a seize the flag match or something. I think that was a single of my lesson plans. I recall it likely perfectly! I’ll convey to the story of how I obtained to enable her instruct 4th and 5th quality and we’ll catch up about how Cara has modified as a teacher in the in close proximity to decade because I have witnessed her and discuss about her enthusiasm for adaptive bodily instruction.

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Educator(s) in this episode:

Cara Ryan

Stories in this episode:

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Music: Our show’s topic songs is from the northern Illinois-based band “Kindoves” and their music “Popn,” “Origins” and “Quiche.” You can discover a lot more of their tunes on their Soundcloud web page. You can also hear to the episode of WNIJ’s own Classes from Studio A in which they were being featured.

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