jessica udell
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10/26/2022
Topic:
Students with Disabilities
jessica udell
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I have had several students over the years with various disabilities. Throughout this course I have been reminded of one in particular that was able to achieve great success through hard work, determination, and the strategies that we worked on together to achieve mastery of the standards we were covering in the two school terms that I had her in Band. My student has Diabetes and ADHD. When I came into my current job the students had not received proper instruction for an entire semester, so they were not performing on grade level at that time. This particular student had problems staying focused on music reading, tone production, and had emotional issues due to her diabetes not being controlled at that time. Due to having ADHD, she was often off task and was frustrated easily when she could not play passages in the method book and/or sheet music. Her frustration also stemmed from being the only Trombone player in the class. Some of the strategies I used to help and others achieve are listed below:
I. I started everyone in the class in Book 1 of the method book series we were using. If anyone was more advanced than that, they had opportunities to sight read in the more advanced books during small group differentiation.
II. I used Pass-off charts aligned with testing numbers from the Method Book as a Progress Monitoring piece for students to track their progress and receive immediate feedback. This also allowed my students that needed to "randomly leave their seat" for a moment to do so without seeming disrespectful. Checking the chart on the wall normalized many behaviors and made the classroom a safe and prosperous environment for all students.
Seeing her progress daily helped tremendously and gave my student a focal point with a chance to move at her own pace. |