5/15/2019
Topic:
Assessment of Learning
Barbie Spears
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Option 1: Provide/Describe one or more examples of adapted or alternative assessments you have successfully used in the classroom for students with disabilities. Be sure to identify the student's disability. Share your response in the threaded discussion.
Last year I taught a 9th grade student with Down's Syndrome who was in a self-contained classroom. His mom asked if he could leave one period a day to join my Theatre I class. He had severe learning challenges but he was fun and enthusiastic. He was successful during the Pantomime Unit and the first Acting Scene. His mom and other teachers were very excited to learn that he could remember lines when I prompted him. One successful alternative assessment was when I was teaching costume design. The students in the classroom were studying Elizabethan costume and designing their own creations. I used the exact same design criteria and asked him to design a superhero costume. He identified different parts of the costume (mask, boots, belt) and explained how the costume made the character "powerful." |
5/15/2019
Topic:
Students With Disabilities
Barbie Spears
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Think of a student with a disability you have now, or have had in the past. Identify their disability. Describe the way in which their disability affected their learning. Describe at least one or more ways you successfully accommodated or modified instruction for this student. Share your response in the threaded discussion.
Last year I taught a 9th grade student with Down's syndrome who was scheduled to be in a self-contained classroom. His mom advocated for him to go to my class one hour a day to participate with general ed students. He was successful in Pantomimes and was able to remember simple dialogue with prompting. At the end of the year, the class performs a one act play. One of the characters was a ghost that appears to scare people away from the old house. I gave my student a vest and collar that allowed him to have a "supernatural appearance" without wearing a hood. He was the "shadow" of the other student who played the Ghost. He crossed the stage making ghost spooky noises with the other actor saying the lines. We also invited his peers from the self-contained classroom to watch the performance. Everyone was so excited for my student to participate in the same exam performance as the rest of the class. He had to know his cues, he had to know his blocking, and he had to sustain a believable character. Success all around! |