1/3/2017
Topic:
Students with Disabilities
Staci Pendry
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I have a student who is hard of hearing. He would come in and sit in the back with their classroom assistant and not participate in my music lessons. I hated seeing him not involved. I got an external pair of speakers and attached them to my smart board. When the music came on I had him place his hand on the sub-woofers. He could feel the beat vibrating the speaker as the song played. I have never seen him smile so big. He was able to take the mallet and keep time on the drum by feeling the pulse in the speaker. I got my camera out and took a picture. It inspires me every day to NEVER let any child slip between my fingers, no matter who they are or what the system has defined them as. EVERY child can succeed. |
1/3/2017
Topic:
Tools and Strategies
Staci Pendry
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I use technology every day in my music classroom. I am very lucky to have access to a smart board with an application called "all in learning". It is a program where the students do not have to have a paper in front of them to be assessed. It has clickers that are assigned to the student by number. All they have to know is A B C and D. They point the clicker at the screen and choose their answer. I have several students who are language impaired. They use this technology to chose a picture on the screen for their answer instead of having to write out the name of the object they hear. It is also useful in my pre-primary classes for the children who have yet to master the English language. |
1/3/2017
Topic:
Assessment of Learning
Staci Pendry
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I use several types of adaptive assessments in my lessons. The first I use targets my speech impairment students. We do a self assessment strategy called 4-3-2-1...they show me 4 fingers if they think they did a perfect job on the activity, 3 if they only made 1 or 2 mistakes, 2 if they understood but need small group pull out and a 1 if they do not understand and need one on one assistance. We also keep "what did I learn today" journals in which the students draw or write, depending on their own disabilities, what they learned that day. I use this activity as their own personal exit tickets. |