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A federal grant for $1.18 million is allowing Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, to offer a first of its kind free online degree for physical education teachers.
This unique hybrid online masters degree for teachers is state approved in special (adapted) physical education. The degree combines online theory courses with classroom labs in adaptive teaching techniques.
The new distance master's degree program helps physical education teachers learn to work with kids who have been declared special need due to either mental or physical disabilities. Teachers who enroll are taught key motor skills and patterns, physical and motor fitness, aquatics, dance, and individual and group recreational skills.
Applicants for the hybrid online degree program must hold a bachelor's degree from an accredited institution. A valid Teaching Certificate is required for students who aim to obtain state approvals (endorsements). Endorsement students must enter the program with a physical education or special education major or minor.
Dr. Jiabei Zhang, a WMU professor of health, physical education and recreation, says that the federal grant pays for 100% of tuition and textbooks for approved students. Zhang directs the degree program in collaboration with Extended University Programs. The hybrid online master's degree program was created in fall 2009. It has been federally funded since spring 2011.
As more children are moved into less restrictive learning environments, the demand for teachers trained in adaptive physical education is growing rapidly, Zhang says. It is estimated some 10 to 12 percent of public school children require adapted physical education.
"There is a significant shortage of adapted physical education teachers in the public schools," Zhang says. "That is a major problem public schools have right now."
Zhang designed the unique program to help address the need for a distance learning program as expressed by potential applicants in Michigan and neighboring states.
