ABSTRACT
Toni Richardson is an itinerant adapted physical education (PE) teacher. As an itinerant teacher, Toni must travel to various schools within the district to provide direct adapted PE instruction. In fact, on a weekly basis, Toni teaches a culturally, ethnically, and linguistically diverse group of students with disabilities at seven different schools. All these schools, with one exception (i.e., a preschool day care center affiliated with the local university), are within the same large urban school district. Toni has a wide range of diverse learners across these multiple school sites. She provides adapted PE instruction to preschoolers up to seniors in high school. It stands to reason that as an itinerant teacher, Toni encounters several unique instructional and administrative problems that she must deal with in comparison to other adapted PE teachers who teach within just one school site. In this case, the challenges and rewards of teaching a diversity of students with disabilities as an itinerant adapted PE specialist within a large urban school district are presented.
