4/25/2019
Topic:
Students With Disabilities
Deborah Schmit
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I had a fourth grade student who was visually impaired. She had thick glasses and also used a large magnifying glass to read. In math each day, all the students were given multiplication tables and were required to put the correct answer below each multiplication problem. All students who finished within 2 minutes would be given small reward. One day, this student became extremely frustrated and began to cry because she said she knew the answers but couldn't write them fast enough. I don't know why I had not thought of it before, but after seeing her so upset, I copied all the multiplication problems on her paper by 200% and she didn't need to use her magnifying glass and after just a couple days she increased her speed writing her answers and was on the reward line with the other students. |
4/25/2019
Topic:
Tools and Strategies
Deborah Schmit
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Two strategies that could be used in an art classroom would be task cards and peer teaching. Task cards would be helpful in the classroom so that all students could work at their own pace. IND students would benefit from having the tasks broken down into small parts. This would also allow each student to see the progress they made when completing each task. If a student has a problem with a particular part of a project, they would be able to bring that task card to the teacher for assistance.
Peer teaching would also be helpful to all students but especially an IND student as they would have support in the classroom and be able to ask questions of their peer without the entire class focusing on them. They would be able have someone in close proximity to them keeping them focused and on task. |