Mallori Ann Barch

 

1.What were your Majors/Minors?
Major: Health and Physical Education, Minor: APE & Health

2. Are you APENS certified?
No

3. How has the minor affected you?
It gave me a lot of great experiences working with kids with disabilities. It gave me a lot to talk about in interviews and inspired me to go back to school to get my masters in Special Education.

4. Where are you now?
Council Rock School District, 1on1

5.What are your future goals? 
Teacher position

6. A quick word of advice for future adapted minors or for parents looking for an adapted PE professional.
The better you understand the disability and child the better you can differentiate for them. Always praise positive behaviors! Set high expectations.
 

Cat Baskin      

 

1. What were your Majors/Minors?

Health and Physical Education, APE minor

2. Are you APENS certified?

Yes

3. How has the minor affected you?

The minor prepared me for real life teaching and equipped me with the tools and strategies I need and use daily when teaching inclusion physical education classes. The minor gave me such an immense amount of experience that I felt ready to face the "real world" of teaching on my own.

4. Where are you now?

Physical Education teacher at Panorama ES in Prince George's County, MD

5. What are your future goals?

Continue changing my school's perspective about the students with disabilities in my school. Since starting there I have worked alongside the adapted physical education teacher to bring our students together.

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

Be patient!

 

Allison Livelsberger   

 

1. What were your Majors/Minors?

 Health and PE and health and ape minors
 

2. Are you APENS certified?

Yes

 

3. How has the minor affected you?

 

I would not be the teacher I am today without it. It gave me more insight into the kind of students you can see and how important it is to know how to accommodate for everyone.
 

4. Where are you now? 

Yes, Melmark a school for individuals with disabilities teaching in the aquatics department.
 

5. What are your future goals?

To find an APE job that I can settle into.
 

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

You are asked to do a lot work but take advantage of everything you possibly can. You are only in the minor once and the more you put in the more you will get out. Always smile! Remember why you are doing the minor; the kids need us as much as we need them! :)
 

Leigh Pesko

 

1.What were your Majors/Minors?

First degree 2007 in exercise science minor in nutrition second degree 2010 HPE Major and Minor in adapted PE

 

2.Are you APENS certified?

     yes

3. How has the minor affected you?

It keeps me motivated to help those in need

4. Where are you now?

Olney charter high school in Philadelphia

5. What are your future goals?

I am working on my masters in health education now and plan to go back again to PT school after a few years if I don't decide to be a collegiate professor hopefully first (preferably at WCU one day)

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

Never stop dreaming, no matter any mistakes you make in life, if you keep working hard, it may not be as quick as you thought or the exact path you expected, but you will always eventually reach your goals!