11/2/2022
Topic:
Students with Disabilities
Melissa Squires
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- Think of a student with a disability you have now or in the past. Describe ways in which their disability affected their learning in your class.
I am a current elementary art teacher and have a variety of students every day. Our ESE students push into the classroom with aides and I also work with them as a group on their own along with their aides. When I work with them as a group I am able to really interact with them on a personal level and get to know them as individuals and how their disability affects their learning in the classroom. A good portion of these students have autism. Some are verbal, some are not. I have found that the students either have a hard time focusing on one thing and travel the room or hyper-focus in one area. To accommodate each one, I set up centers in the room so that my travelers can move from one material interaction to another and my hyper-focused kids can really dig in to one center. As I get to know each of them, I will adjust the centers to appeal to what they seem to be most interested in. One student in particular, a first grader who has a really hard time pushing in with the regular classroom as she is distracted by the other students, is very focused during our group time and can even set up her own painting materials. I have used my individual time with her to create new strategies for her push-in time as it is important for her to be a part of her general education classroom. |
12/30/2022
Topic:
Tools And Strategies
Melissa Squires
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- Describe how two of the strategies discussed could potentially be implemented in your classroom. Be sure to identify the two strategies by name and describe how they could be used to address the needs of a student with a disability:
The two strategies that I could implement in my classroom right away would be task cards and cubing. I already use a form of task cards for each studio that students can work in, but I currently call them menus. I would make this more specific and give 3-4 differentiated options within the menus. The same could work for cubing. However, I would make one method focused on a specific assignment, and one focused on personal exploration. |
12/30/2022
Topic:
Assessment of Learning
Melissa Squires
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- Describe an example of adapted assessment you have successfully used in the fine arts classroom for students with disabilities:
I had a student with visual impairments who was in the first grade. The skill and vocabulary that we were working on was "overlapping" in the collage studio. While the general students could use a variety of solid and patterned papers to show the skill of overlapping, the student with visual impairment used fabric and texured papers to create the overlapping collage. This type of adapted assessment allowed for a different material to be used so that the student could demonstrate understanding and knowledge. |