Dennis Hall
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2/15/2023
Topic:
Assessment of Learning
Dennis Hall
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Option 1: Provide/Describe one or more examples of adapted or alternative assessments you have successfully used in the classroom for students with disabilities. Be sure to identify the student's disability. Share your response in the threaded discussion.
In teaching theatre, I tend to let students find the material that speaks to them and then build my instruction on that interest. I had one student who had severe anxiety about speaking in front of others. I first started by letting them write out what they think the character was really trying to communicate, then I had them read it just to me. Then I asked them to do it again, but this time try to look at me as much as they could. ( this correlates to a reading strategy known as "chunking") Then, once they felt comfortable enough with just me, I would ask another student to stand in for whatever character the original student character is speaking to) I slowly let more students "enter the sphere of the performance". This is a pretty good method for easing a student into "performing" in front of others who have moderate to severe anxiety about being in front of others. |