3/25/2019
Topic:
Students with Disabilities
Charlotte Walters 2
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I have had a student with dyslexia. I would provide additional worksheets and notes about music home with her so she could review them with her family at home. I would also read the tests out loud and she would just verbally tell me the answer. I also gave her extended time to complete assignments and tests. |
7/2/2019
Topic:
Students with Disabilities
Charlotte Walters 2
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I had a student who was hard-of hearing and she loved music. I placed a strong singer close to her which helped a lot. I would also spend extra time with her to help match pitch on sections of music that she was having trouble with. |
7/6/2019
Topic:
Tools and Strategies
Charlotte Walters 2
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I have incorporated technology in my class by using a free online review game called Kahoot. I have used this fun game to target learning gains from pre and post tests. Students can compete against each other using their phones, tablets or computers. After each question is answered, it shows a graph of all students from first to last based on who answered the questions correctly the fastest. I use this to monitor student achievement. I was able to help one of my students with disabilities who was struggling with music vocabulary. I asked the ESE teacher how I can further help this student, and she told me that her strength is visual and I was able to supplement additional help with vocabulary by showing a clip from Little Einsteins that targeted the specific terms that we were covering. After watching the clip, which she loved, she made a big learning gain on the post test from Kahoot. |
7/6/2019
Topic:
Assessment of Learning
Charlotte Walters 2
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I had a student with dyslexia. I have all of my students keep a journal as a summative assessment. I post questions on the board and students will answer the questions in their journal. If they do not know the answer, they can tell me in their journal. I also ask students to write how they are progressing with their music. For the student with dyslexia, I would provide a copy of the questions for the week so she could have more time to work on the questions at home. If she needed further explanation, she would verbally tell me before or after class and I would help guide her through the questions. She would also discuss with me verbally her progress with the music. She is allowed to use her phone to take a picture of any notes or examples on the board or sometimes I would provide a copy of the notes just for her. I also read any formal assessments verbally to the student with extended time so she can process each question. These strategies really worked well for her. |