11/12/2022
Topic:
Students with Disabilities
Helen Garcia-Valdez
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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 have a third grade student in my art class who is blind. He has a paraprofessional assigned to him. A major challenge in our art education is the overwhelming amount of visual material to which he is exposed. I create slides that have Youtube segments that assist with art description, like MoMA “the Way I See It”. We use Kagan Cooperative strategies and work with our shoulder partner and team in discussing. When doing contour drawing he could not see a visual prompt so we used a 3-D giraffe and it was fun for the whole class. Students were able to draw what they saw and we had the para help the student touch and draw what he felt. We have been successful creating a glue resist, yarn paintings, using texture plates and crayons, and using manipulatives to create patterns. Having tactile items to draw are helpful. To add meaning to paint color selection we combined with things he has experience with like yellow/lemon, orange/orange, blue/blue berries and red/strawberries.
Creating a clay owl sculpture has been his favorite. We got to use the sense of touch and smell- hold the 25lb. bag of clay, feel the temperature of fresh cut clay, smell the clay, and of course feel the clay at different stages. Oh the delight of this experience. Art brings smiles and the ability to express if we take the time to differentiate lessons. |
11/25/2022
Topic:
Tools And Strategies
Helen Garcia-Valdez
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Fine Arts educators (choose one):
- 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.
I frequently include the Strategy of Cooperative Learning in my Visual Arts class as it increases student participation, makes for a positive class climate, encourages team building, social skills and student achievement. We commonly use Rally Robin as it is versatile and easy to use with ESE and all my K-5 classes. In this activity, students "take turns responding orally and state responses to a given question(s) in pairs" Students have an opportunity to consider a question and are given think time before they share their responses with a partner. All students have an opportunity to participate, all voices are heard and there is ownership of teaching and learning the lesson. We like to have a “Popcorn” time for whole group discussion. A few of the benefits are engagement and attention to the task, peer interaction, personal accountability and decision making.
The other strategy I regularly use is Technology- I love using Google Slides on my promethean board. It captures attention and helps my students see, hear and interact with the art. I have successfully used MoMA YouTube Clips series “The Way I See It” to introduce art. Our first was a piece of art by Morgan Russell. In this episode of "The Way I See It," actor and comedian Steve Martin looks at paintings by two early pioneers of American abstraction and takes us on a journey of seeing—shape and color transform into mountains, sky, and water. This has helped my ESE students have a model for their own Rally Robin cooperative strategy. My ESE students were able to see, think and wonder successfully with scaffolding. We used these duo strategies as introductions to various pieces of artwork. The predictability has helped them engage better in cooperative learning.
The Way I See It:
- What do I see?
- What do I think?
- What do I wonder?
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11/26/2022
Topic:
Assessment of Learning
Helen Garcia-Valdez
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- Think of a fine arts student with a disability you have now or in the past. Review the Assessment Accommodations Checklist and select two options that could potentially benefit this student in assessing his or her fine arts learning. Discuss how they would benefit the student.
I am thinking of a Visual Arts student with ADHD who has a shorter attention span, difficulty concentrating and and lack of self control.
Options that could potentially benefit this student are:
Create a seating area to minimize distractions during instruction and studio time. This would include reduced stimuli and sources of distraction, Limited amount of materials available to the student would also help minimize distractions.
Provide small group setting and offer breaks during class for movement. |