This fun and active workshop is for adapted PE and general education PE teachers as well as early childhood teachers, special education teachers, paraprofessionals, Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists and administrators.  The activities covered are suited for students of all ages and abilities.  Participants will learn how to assess the need for adaptations to activities.  They will also learn how to modify equipment, rules, and games so students of all abilities can show success.  Participants will play and experience different activities and games that they can take back to use in their gyms and classrooms so they should dress comfortably and come ready to be active participants.  

Jeff Key, M.Ed, is a Nationally Certified Adapted Physical Educator (CAPE).  He has been a physical educator for over 36 years.  Key has taught future teachers at Texas Tech University, Wayland Baptist University, and Lubbock Christian University.  He has also coached adapted physical education to elementary, junior High, high School, and college age students.  He has taught general and special education PE classes.  He has also taught at the National Adapted Physical Education Conference in California, Texas Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (TAHPERD) Conference, he is the Past Chair of the Adapted PE section of TAHPERD.  He has taught numerous workshops on adapted and general physical education throughout Texas at various Regional Education Service Centers and conferences.  He serves on the Advisory Board for the Texas Tech University’s Burkhart Center for Autism Research and Education.  Key is also a Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist (COMS) working with students teaching them travel skills with the white cane and using their guide dogs.  He is currently the Teacher of Studen