For students whose disabilities keep them out of a standard gym class, you build a version of PE that fits them: modified games, adapted equipment, individual goals. Movement made reachable for every body.
You might cover several schools in a week, hauling adapted gear between gyms and writing toward each student's IEP goals. No two students need the same setup: one needs a softer ball, another a complete rethink of the activity. The room runs on movement, repetition, and constant redirection, and progress is measured in small, hard-won wins.
The load that surprises people is the documentation wrapped around the teaching: paperwork, meetings, and compliance that can rival instruction itself. Caseloads tend to run large, equipment budgets thin, and how much support you get swings hard by district. Adapting on the fly becomes second nature, because plans rarely survive contact with a real class.
It tends to suit someone creative under constraint and moved by incremental gains: the first time a kid sinks a basket counts. If you want fast results or a tidy routine, the variability can wear on you. But helping a child do something their body couldn't do before tends to give back more than the paperwork takes.
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