Barbara Seiden 

 

1. What were your Majors/Minors?

Major in Kinesiology: PE and Health; Minor in Health Education

 

2. How has the minor affected you?

• Helped me with getting a part-time PE job

• Provided the credentials and credibility to start a program for people with disabilities at the Central Bucks Family YMCA

• Provided the credentials and credibility for my personal training business

 

3. Where are you now?

• Wallingford-Swarthmore School District – Part-time kindergarten PE teacher

• Barb’s Personal Training – Personal Trainer

• Central Bucks Family YMCA – group exercise instructor

 

4. What are your future goals?

• Get a full time job that pays benefits

 

5. A quick word of advice for future adapted minors or for parents looking for an adapted PE professional.

• Network, network, network. It is critical in today’s employment environment to utilize all of your contacts to help find employment.

• Be flexible. You may not get a job doing exactly what you want, but can be creative to develop a niche that is close to the type of job you are looking for.

• Be patient. Things happen for a reason. You never know what will present itself over time.

Promote yourself. There is such a need for adapted PE, but people don’t know that it’s available and/or needed. Remind people that your skills are very similar to OT and PT professions, at a fraction of the cost.