4/20/2019
Topic:
Students with Disabilities
Patti Wheeler
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I have a couple of hearing impaired students in my elementary art classes. The older student is a good lip reader & the younger one is not. I've obtained a portable wireless headset with microphone & a clip-on hip speaker which works great. All my students sit in assigned seats & I've put these students at a table in front of the room near the board which makes it even easier for them to focus & hear my directions. Win/win for them!
I can turn the speaker off quickly & easily to check with them privately if they hear me well or with any other students privately too. All is well with this portable mic/speaker set up & it's great to use for any classes & saves my voice over the day also. I have some conductive hearing loss in one ear, so can identify with a hearing disability to some extent. Before the portable mic/ speaker was obtained, it was a hit & miss situation for directions (especially for the non-lip reader). |
4/23/2019
Topic:
Students with Disabilities
Patti Wheeler
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Patti Wheeler wrote:
I have a couple of hearing impaired students in my elementary art classes. The older student is a good lip reader & the younger one is not. I've obtained a portable wireless headset with microphone & a clip-on hip speaker which works great. All my students sit in assigned seats & I've put these students at a table in front of the room near the board which makes it even easier for them to focus & hear my directions. Win/win for them!
I can turn the speaker off quickly & easily to check with them privately if they hear me well or with any other students privately too. All is well with this portable mic/speaker set up & it's great to use for any classes & saves my voice over the day also. I have some conductive hearing loss in one ear, so can identify with a hearing disability to some extent. Before the portable mic/ speaker was obtained, it was a hit & miss situation for directions (especially for the non-lip reader). |
4/23/2019
Topic:
Tools and Strategies
Patti Wheeler
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Two strategies which could be used in my art classroom are online Learning Center (for eg. Powerpoint that can be completed by students) & also use of iPads for teaching, review or enrichment to lessons.
Students who are visually or hearing impaired could use headphones as they independently work through the lessons close up on the computer screen for assistance in clearly seeing & hearing the instructions & images.
I have used a portable microphone & speaker device to enable my few hearing impaired students to adequately receive instructions. I have also used Mneumonic acronyms to teach content for long term memory to students. I've used online photo-editing app for students to use in Photo Club for editing their artistic photos which incorporate use of art elements & principles of design. All of these have made learning more engaging to students with their variety of learning modalities.
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4/23/2019
Topic:
Assessment of Learning
Patti Wheeler
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For students with disability, I have used an Exit Ticket for assessment successfully in the past. Students can write or draw what they have learned or tell me as I write it for them privately before they leave the class. I also use their artwork as a performance artifact of whether they've successfully fulfilled their required skills. Each art lesson is "open-ended" so that students may add more than the requirements so that each artwork shows differentiation in results for solving an artistic "problem" or challenge. I also allow extra time on any End Of Course test & read aloud the questions for students who are identified as needing this accommodation. |