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Physical Education
OCPE Coordinator and Instructor Requirements

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  1. The OCPE Agency Coordinator must ensure that all instructors are "appropriately trained" for Category II or "exceptionally trained" for Category I, meaning that the Agency must provide certification and/or documentation of instructor training and experience.
  2. The OCPE Agency Coordinator must ensure that all instructors teach and discuss the agreed upon Physical Education TEKS during scheduled practices or scheduled OCPE Program instruction time.
  3. The OCPE Agency Coordinator must ensure that all instructors assign at least one written assignment per week based on the topic of discussion approved by the Physical Education Coordinator.
  4. The OCPE Agency Coordinator must ensure that all instructors provide grades for each written assignment in students' journals and that all assignments are complete.
  5. The OCPE Agency Coordinator must ensure that all instructors provide the required documentation (students' hours of participation and six weeks grade of pass or fail) to students' counselors on or before the last day of each reporting period. AISD will provide a copy of the school year calendar and the grading report period dates prior to the start of the school year. The calendar and grading deadlines may also be accessed at www.austinisd.org. The OCPE Agency Coordinator must be able to provide evidence of student attendance upon request.
  6. The OCPE Agency Coordinator must notify the AISD PE Coordinator and the school counselor if students choose to transfer into a general physical education class and/or do not meet the 90% attendance requirement. For the OCPE Program, one hour of participation is equivalent to one day of attendance or absence. Agencies may round down (1.5 hours missed = 1 day of absence).
  7. The OCPE Agency Coordinator must provide AISD with current instructor contact and certification information as needed.

AISD will make unannounced site visits and will be expecting to see evidence of learned Physical Education TEKS. AISD will be looking for skill development, learned physical activity and health concepts and social development by observing students participating in appropriate activities and reviewing the student's OCPE journal. The AISD Physical Education Coordinator will give one warning to the Agency for non-compliance of the OCPE Program requirements. If a second breach of OCPE Program requirements occurs, the AISD Physical Education Coordinator will dismiss the Agency from the OCPE Program.

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AISD Physical Education
1111 West Sixth Street
Austin, TX 78703-5399
Phone: 512.414.9779
Fax: 512.414.0035
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