5/24/2022
Topic:
Students with Disabilities
Jennifer Renfroe
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I had a student while I was interning that had a severe Orthopedic Impairment in my keyboards class. She was confined to a wheelchair and struggled with motor skills. This included the ability to control where her fingers were on the keyboard, but she was overjoyed with being in the music class. Her aid and I had brainstormed and came up with the solution of sewing two gloves together so that she could move her hand on the keyboard over his hand in order to play the notes on the keyboard together. |
5/25/2022
Topic:
Tools and Strategies
Jennifer Renfroe
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Option 1: 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.
One strategy that I have used in my classroom is mnemonic devices. This aids in remembering the names of the lines and spaces on the treble and bass staves (FACE, Elephants Got Big Dirty Feet, All Cows Eat Grass, Good Burritos Don't Fall Apart) as well as the order of flats and sharps (Fish Can Get Dirty After Eating Biscuits, BEAD Go Call Fred) which is especially helpful instead of just memorizing letters universally for both individuals with disabilities as well as mainstream students. Another strategy that I have used in my classroom is peer partners when addressing posture and breathing in the choral setting. First I model, then I have students check each other's posture and breathing with their neighbor to make sure that they can see and help each other's posture and breathing look like the example. Also a strategy that is universally helpful for both individuals with disabilities as well as mainstream students. |
5/25/2022
Topic:
Assessment of Learning
Jennifer Renfroe
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In a guitar class I had a student who broke his arm. In lieu of his chord playing test, I had him write out (it was his left arm that he broke) the chord diagrams for the basic chord progressions as well as spell the notes in each chord and write out the corresponding scales for each chord. |