6/26/2020
Topic:
Tools and Strategies
PL Malcolm
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Using technology
When I have an opportunity to work with some of my students one on one. If we are working on a lesson, let's say reading lines and spaces of a staff. I will teach the lines and spaces through mnemonic devices, but then we will work on the computer for repetition and reinforcement. I will pull images of a staff with a treble or clef and talk about lines and spaces. Eventually going to a program called musiccards.net. I can enlarge the screen as we work together through the lines and spaces. As the student becomes more confident and faster, I start decreasing the screen size to transition them into reading notes on paper. This technique has worked well for me. |
6/26/2020
Topic:
Assessment of Learning
PL Malcolm
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In my band class our assessments are all shared equally. Sometimes I have to modify what's being asked of my students. One year I had a student with ASD and he had difficulty visually decoding notation. He had an excellent sense of rhythm and good technique, but sight reading was very difficult for him. He worked with me and with peer tutors to memorize his ensemble music for our Music Performance Assessments, and I assigned him the simplest percussion parts for the sight-reading assessments. |