3/9/2020
Topic:
Students With Disabilities
Kim Pirisino
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I teach art and have an autistic student who sees things in his own unique perspective and expresses them on paper very differently then the rest of the class (think of still life drawings in an expressionistic or surrealistic way instead of strict realism). His abilities have actually allowed me to share a more accepted way of drawing as high schoolers tend to be very tight and realistic prone, and his drawings and unique/different vision have loosened them up. Since I accept his drawings and actual share them with the class, many students have become more confident and allowed themselves to draw the way they feel more comfortable with instead of how they think they should draw. I guess I have used what many would find an issue and have turned it into a learning tool for the whole class. |
3/9/2020
Topic:
Assessment of Learning
Kim Pirisino
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In a class with many, many students... say 50, I have multiple types of learning disabilities all at once. One type of adaptive assessment that I have used to improve students learning is to have students stand up and share with the class how they have satisfied certain learning goals and parameters of the lesson in their artworks. By having many students show different ways of completing the same goals in a visual way, the students can see how others solved the problem and ask them questions about how they did it. The students teach each other while getting to show off their ideas to the class and have a peer review at the same time. |
3/9/2020
Topic:
Tools and Strategies
Kim Pirisino
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In my photography class, I use Google Classroom as a tool that allows students with several disorders the ability to preview lessons, read and reread instructions, view examples, click on link to websites with video examples, turn in their work, view and comment on their peers work, and keep dates of when things are due. Google Classroom can be accessed anywhere, in school, at home, or your phone, and I can upload anything for them to have constant access to. I can also send quizzes, questionnaires and other digital tools to the class and that they can see immediate right and wrong responses to so that they can fix their work. On a side note, it is a great teacher organizer too. Using google classroom gives students needing accommodations constant access to the information needed to be successful. |