2/19/2022
Topic:
Students with Disabilities
Feliciano Carrion-Puchales
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Several year ago, I had a class of about 6 or 7 students, they were all deaf. Their disability was the definite barrier in between them and what they could learn in my class, at least that what I thought. All these kids taught me that I was wrong. I have to say, that they impressed me with their hard unstoppable work. They learn about steady beat and even play rhythms in minor percussion instruments. They were always with a smile and so eager to learn, even in their hardest days. After every day I met them, I ended it with a headache, but man it was so satisfactory. Now I know that I was the one who was intervened, they were the "Team of Professionals" applying a TIER 3 on me. |
3/12/2022
Topic:
Tools and Strategies
Feliciano Carrion-Puchales
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Describe how two of the strategies discussed could potentially be implemented in your music classroom. Be sure to identify the two strategies by name, and describe how they could be used to address the student's disability. Share your response in the threaded discussion.
I already use Keyword Strategy and Letter Strategy for the same lesson this chapters gave the example, but I would truly like to experience of using the Discovery Learning Strategy and the Peer Partners Strategy. I loved the example this chapter use for the Discovery Learning Strategy. Having the students describing, comparing, associating, analyzing, applying and arguing about a musical instrument or the timbre of a whole family of instruments, or the arrangement of a musical composition, or the characteristic of a genre, or the way a song is interpreted it, etcetera. Is a perfect way to have them all participating and deeply thinking about a theme from different angles, each answer, different from each other, depending on the student cognitive level and background knowledge. This will become a great discussion, even for students with disabilities. Of course, I will guide them into the right track to get them to the goal of the lesson we might be discussing.
I also would love to use the Peer Partners Strategy. Having a student helping out their peers, could be a great tool, and the truth is that I never saw it that way. I always thought that doing that could be a problem, because maybe then everybody may want to do the same thing, or because maybe some students may don’t feel comfortable having another student helping them, because they may see them like equal, but for the same reason they may feel more comfortable talking to them. Thanks to this chapter I may apply this to some of my lessons. For example, when I am teaching about how to play the Xylophones, a student that already know how to do it, could help others while I am conducting. Like show them what to play, where to play, how to hold the mallets, and things like that. |