Julie Martin
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6/13/2020
Topic:
Students with Disabilities
Julie Martin
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Think of a student with a disability you have now, or have had in the past. Identify their disability. Describe the way in which their disability affected their learning. Describe at least one or more ways you successfully accommodated or modified instruction for this student.
I had a student who had several major surgeries to her dominate arm that left her in a cast for more than a year. She is a very gifted artist - especially for a 5th grader. She was immediately limited to what she could do and had to learn to use her less-capable, less dominate hand to write and function in the classroom. Her social emotional state was also impacted by this physical trauma. She missed drawing and creating and she would get very frustrated. An assignment for her class was to recreate a piece of art from a virtual museum tour we took. The students selected their pieces based on the criteria and went to work. This particular student was tired of struggling with pen and paper or paint and paper and needed a break. I asked her to recreate the selected piece with items from home. She revisited the virtual museum in class with me and selected an image that she felt she could recreate with items from home. She was able to recreate a painting with real-life items and she also was able to use a little humor with her selections. She was able to use her creativity in a fun and thoughtful way but the assignment was altered to be geared to her ability and to what she needed at the time. I found that the creative approach was uplifting to her, she was not limited to using her imagination and she was able to share an image with the class of her re-creation. The main aspects of the project dealt with spacial recognition, identification, and composition. This student was successful in all three areas. As a side note, this project was such a hit -I had my entire class do another recreation during quarantine. |