1/3/2018
Topic:
Students with Disabilities
joimclain
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I have a second grade student with Down's Syndrome. One way i have used technology is in the use of our new music curriculum this year, which is all digital. Instead of projecting it on the screen I project it onto the dry erase board. This way the students' focus is forward and on the board, and I and the students can circle notes, text, or music symbols right beside the digital text and music.
Examples of other technology I have used are YouTube, enhanced CDs, DVDs and MP3 files of music. Recently. some of these were used in a lesson focusing on form and movement to the March from The Nutcracker Suite. From the internet I used a video excerpt from the Nutcracker Ballet showing children dancing to the March. We then listened to just the audio of the music and discussed and identified the form of the piece. We then watched a DVD of elementary children performing to the same music, using large candy canes as horses. My students then listened to the audio again and performed different movements that correlated with different sections of the music. |
1/3/2018
Topic:
Assessment of Learning
joimclain
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I have used an alternative assessment in one of my recorder classes for a student who had trouble changing fingering positions at the pace needed to stay with the tempo of a recorded accompaniment. But she could should me the fingering positions when the note name was called out. She could also fill in the note names below the notes on a staff of a printed worksheet along with penciling in the fingering positions on simple pictures of recorders. |