12/17/2018
Topic:
Students with Disabilities
Rachel Begleiter
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Think of a student with a disability you have now or in the past. Describe ways in which their disability affected their learning in your class.
In one of my fourth grade class, I have one student who is severely handicapped in both movement and speech abilities. This student is unable to respond verbally to questioning nor can the student be able to play an instrument properly or sing because of the student's disability. However, this student happily surprises me each time the student comes to music class. The student listen attentively and absorbs the knowledge gained from my class. For example, I was teaching the class about syncopation and syncopated rhythms, displaying eight quarter eighth note rhythms. The goal of activity was to be able to identify the notated version of the Syncopa rhythm. I took student volunteers to come up to the whiteboard and circle the Syncopas. This student was among the volunteers, and, with the help of the student's aid, the student selected the correct rhythm. It was gratifying to see that despite the disability that student was able to comprehend and apply the musical knowledge taught in my class. |
12/21/2018
Topic:
Students with Disabilities
Rachel Begleiter
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In one of my fourth grade classes, I have a student who is severly handicapped. He cannot verbally respond to question or do any complex movement. To help him answer questions, we use an IPad app that includes pictures that give a vocal response when pressed. This allows the student to respond to questioning in class. |
1/23/2019
Topic:
Assessment of Learning
Rachel Begleiter
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For Kindergarten, I was assessing the students' ability to access their singing voice. The majority of the class were English Language Learners. For the assessment, I ask each student to sing the answer to this question: "What do you want for the holidays?" To help generate answers, I provided a paper with a variety of gift ideas for each student to choose from. This worked wonderfully for my students. Each student that struggled with generating an answer pointed to a picture, then they echo sang back to me. I was not only able to assess their ability to access singing voice, but I could also assess whether or not they can match pitch.
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