12/22/2020
Topic:
Tools and Strategies
Paul Edgeworth
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I have been using a wonderful curriculum for our special-needs students: MusicPlayOnline. This curriculum incorporates interactive games to reinforce music theory concepts being taught, such as beat, rhythm, dynamics, and pitch. I have converted my whiteboard into a "smartboard" through the use of Mimio tools. This approach allows our students (most of whom have learning/intellectual disabilities and/or ASD, to grasp the concepts. |
12/23/2020
Topic:
Assessment of Learning
Paul Edgeworth
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I teach Music History/Appreciation to a class of high-school boys with cognitive challenges. For these lessons, I show a brief documentary about a particular artist. I then share three of four YouTube videos of that particular artist's work. As an assessment, I create a Google doc with three sets of two choices. For the first question, I ask the student to point to the image of the artist being studied (compared to an image of someone else). For the second question, I ask students to point to the correct instrument that the artist plays (such as a piano, guitar, etc). The final question employs a happy face or a sad face for students to indicate whether they liked each song performed. |