The purpose of this research paper will be on the importance of physical education to the mentally handicapped children and teens. A study will be done to include the opinions of three physical education teachers and their thoughts on how daily physical activity effects mentally handicapped children. Interview subjects will be physical education teachers throughout the district that teach at the elementary, middle school, and high school levels. They will be questioned on their views on the importance of daily physical education to mentally handicapped students along with other questions concerning the topic. Interview subjects will include Tyler Kondos from Horace May Elementary School, Kate Whittington from Bemidji Middle School, and Donna Waliczek from Bemidji High School. A compare and contrast will be done between the different teachers and the levels of P.E. they teach, along with a psychological conclusion on mentally handicapped and how physical activity in daily P.E. classes improves their lifestyles. The results have yet to be concluded, but a generalization has been made. The predicted concluding result shows that daily physical activity in mentally handicapped children and teens decreases levels of hyperness, improve levels of self esteem, and build healthy relationships with other people.
depending on what you get from your interviews look at an idea called differentiation of instruction.
ReplyDeleteHanna, I think that your ideas are very well organized and you have a good basis for your paper. The teachers will be a big help for information and will really bring your paper to the next level. As far as the psychological part that you had talked about are you planning on talking about their behavior or their learning or what specifically? Are you going to talk about all DAPE and mentally handicapped as a whole or physically and mentally handicapped as different subjects? Just something to think about, because it could affect them differently. There's so many different directions you can go with this I think you picked a really good topic with lots to talk about, just make sure you stick with one direction and stay on the path :)
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