1/26/2022
Topic:
Students With Disabilities
J.L. Kirby
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I teach AP Art History. I had one student who had a condition that made it difficult for him to differentiate colors. We found throughout the year, though, that learning the ways that he experienced the same works of art that so differently than the rest of us helped us all grow in our understanding of the art. I had to learn new ways to describe some of the pieces to him. |
1/26/2022
Topic:
Tools and Strategies
J.L. Kirby
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2. I have a visually impaired student in my room this year. The district has provided her with her own laptop to use in my class. When discussing art in my Art History class, this has been invaluable, as she can see it on her screen much better than on mine, and can enlarge things as big as she needs them. She often notices things on her computer that the rest of us missed on the paintings. |
1/26/2022
Topic:
Assessment of Learning
J.L. Kirby
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1. I have an assessment where the students have to recreate one of the pieces from the Altar at Pergamon by coloring them in a way that they think the Hellenistic artists may have done originally. I had one physically handicapped student for whom coloring was impossible. In order to give an alternate method, I had her describe verbally to me what she would have colored each section and why to get across the ideals.
Later, she asked me to get her a digital form of the Altar of Pergamon. With her mom's help and her computer, she recreated what she had said to me allowed, which was really going the extra mile and not something I required. I do have that idea filed away for the future, though. |