1/27/2019
Topic:
Students with Disabilities
Ana Valdes
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I have a 4th grade student in the autistic spectrum. he comes to music once a week with a standard fourth grade class. He loves to play the piano and he will sit and play themes from movies, opening themes, and assorted songs. He plays everything by ear and he is on task the whole 30 minutes, playing the piano. i do not force him, to take part in our class activities, unless I feel he will truly be involved. Normally, he does not participate biut when he sits at the piano, it is magic. Last year, i donated a keyboard to his family after they suffered a house fire, and I encouraged his parents to pursue his passion of the piano. |
1/29/2019
Topic:
Students with Disabilities
Ana Valdes
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I have a 4th grade student who is part of our Autistic individual classrooms. Since second grade, I knew he had an ear for music and he can sit on the piano and play songs he has heard before by ear. I ask him to participate in our regular classroom activities, but he has trouble focusing or participating with group activities. I will let him sit and play the piano as long as he is not disrupting the classroom activity that day. I encourage him to p;lay songs and ocassionally I will sit with him and guide him to certain melodies. Now, he participates more often, knowing that we always have piano time at the end of class. |