1/13/2020
Topic:
Students with Disabilities
Sally Palmer
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I teach elementary music in a school with an EBD cluster. Six years ago, a student came into my kindergarten classroom and would sit under my reading table and scream or roll on the floor or would run around the classroom. His behavior was monitored and he was given a Universal Screening. He was placed in our EBD cluster. This year he is in fifth grade and is mainstreamed in music class with thirty other fifth grade students.
I can imagine that it was scary for him to enter a classroom of thirty students after being in a classroom of 8 students. I placed him in a seat next to me for close proximity in case he needed additional assistance. We began playing the ukulele in August. He knew he could ask me questions if he needed to. He was a little unsure of himself but began to build self confidence when he realized that he could play the ukulele as well as the other students in the class. He earned an A on his final exam. |
1/18/2020
Topic:
Students With Disabilities
Sally Palmer
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I began teaching a student in music class when he was in Kindergarten. He would come into the Kindergarten classroom and hide under the reading table. Sometimes he would scream. He was placed in child study and was placed in our EBD cluster. Now he is in Fifth Grade. He has been placed in the music class with 29 fifth grade students. In August we played the ukulele in music class. I had him sit next to me because I wanted to be there to help him if he needed it. I think he liked it because he did ask me many questions about playing the ukulele, He did a great job playing the ukulele and earned an A on his final exam on the ukulele. |
1/28/2020
Topic:
Assessment of Learning
Sally Palmer
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I have a student in our EBD cluster who has been mainstreamed into our fifth grade classroom. He sits next to me so I can monitor his behavior closely. He did a great job with the ukulele but when we changed semesters and began music theory centers and began writing music , he became frustrated and had to be removed from the classroom. I met with his classroom teacher and told her I was taking this class and asked if I should give him an alternative plan. She said he is severely emotionally handicapped and an alternative assignment might be a good idea. He came into the class and I took him aside and explained that he was going to have a different assignment. He would still be writing music but he would do it on the computer instead of pencil and paper. He smiled and thanked me, He said that he doesn't do well with pencil and paper tasks. He will still be required to write a music composition but he will not use pencil and paper but write his music on a computer program. |