9/5/2019
Topic:
Students With Disabilities
Stuart Taft
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Although I am sure that I have taught many students with undiagnosed disabilities, I do currently have a student who is vision impaired. Also, I have a student with an orthopedic impairment. Both students come to my elementary music classroom accompanied by an aid. These disabilities can affect music learning adversely in a direct way but what really is clear to me, is that, indirectly, these student's have delayed learning because of negative peer interactions and limited access. Still many strides to be made in improving the possibilities for these children. |
9/11/2019
Topic:
Students with Disabilities
Stuart Taft
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Task Cards and Cubing could be utilized in the elementary music classroom in a variety of ways. For example, our district tests 4th grade students at the end of each year to help assess student learning. This test consists of standard musical knowledge i.e. music staff, note values, instrument families, voice categorization, and musical form. It also includes a listening portion where student have to answer questions based on their listening. These listening questions determine if students can identify composers, voice range, pitch direction, and voice range. In prepping students for this end of the course exam, cubing and task cards provide a structured and graduated plan for reviewing, drilling, and assessing student learning both with mainstream students, and ones with disabilities. |
9/11/2019
Topic:
Students with Disabilities
Stuart Taft
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Think of a fine arts student with a disability you have now or in the past. Review the Assessment Accommodations Checklist and select two options that could potentially benefit this student in assessing his or her fine arts learning. Discuss how they would benefit the student.
I currently have a student in my class who is visually impaired to the point of blindness. He is accompanied by an aid who helps him travel from class to class, as well as helping him reach attainable goals in musical aspects. I can assess this student both by presenting and assessing using verbal or spoken commands and prompts. |