6/25/2022
Topic:
Students With Disabilities
lisa akers
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I teach middle school Visual Arts, Studio Arts, Pre-Ap Art, and Digital Arts, and can have anywhere from 26 to 40 students in a given class, with 6 classes at 45 minutes. There can be students with varying disabilities, behavior specialties, ASD, ADHD/ADD, Gifted, medical, etc. Every student is unique and special. This year we had many classes filled with anxiety issues, students who were exploring gender, curious about gender, and confused about choosing gender. A wonderful tool that we utilize in art, is the art journal and this has allowed the students to thrive and really explore freely who they are, and experiment and collaborate with their table mates and friends. Usually, if a student is experiencing any kind of sense of seeing things differently or issues with understanding and clarification, working in teams or tables has really brought out the best of all students to be able to scaffold, chunk, and collaborate their learning strategies, understanding and desire to pair and share what they know and have learned. Allowing students with ADHD/ or ADD to work in teams is wonderful for giving leadership and responsibility and allowing freedom of movement and choice to help others and to explore their own creativity, and individual ideas, and giving them movement to stimulate them. |
6/25/2022
Topic:
Tools and Strategies
lisa akers
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i love to use various strategies in classes as we use various assessments to see where students are currently. Students use art journals as their daily organizers and a unique path to work with their individual preferences of learning styles. We can slowly unfold each step and give definitions, and allow students to use their own explanations in comparing and contrasting a given artist and their own work. Also partnering is a great way of allowing for differentiation, with one teaching and one reflecting.
Technology has been a great tool for students to showcase their own unique way of best documenting their own understanding and process through the use of PowerPoint. |
6/26/2022
Topic:
Assessment of Learning
lisa akers
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Adapted assessments included using student journals, portfolios of student artwork for each assignment and finally the reflection from each student reflecting thier process and what they feel they succeeded in and what they learned and what they feel was their most successful assignment.
Generally, my students with disabilities have used digital formats and sculpture as their choice of more tactile or alternate sensory-stimulating, fine motor utilizing activities that create a sense of success. |