4/11/2018
Topic:
Students with Disabilities
Charles Duran
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Several years ago I had a percussion student in band who was deaf. Since he played from the back of the room, we had a non-verbal signal for when he did not hear directions or instruction. He gave the signal and i would re-iterate with eye-contact and hand gestures. Deafness did not affect this student in Band class as much as i had anticipated, but I believe a lot of the credit goes to the student's effort, desire and focus. |
4/11/2018
Topic:
Students with Disabilities
Charles Duran
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Josh Eury wrote:
I had a student a while back who was a select mute becasue of a sever cleft pallet and cleft lip that caused some pretty bad speech impairments. The first accomidation when he joined was to place him in percussion so he didn't have to worry about using his mouth to play an instrument. The second accomidation was to have him write all of his responses to my questions. He had a little notebook and whenever i asked a question that required an answer from everyone, he would simply write his response down and bring it to me.
I had another student last year who only had 2 fingers and a thumb on his left hand. This kept him from playing any woodwind instrument, trumpet, trombone, french horn or trumpet. So he was left with the option of euphonium or tuba. He chose euphonium and was able to thrive in band.
edited by Josh Eury on 5/4/2016 |
4/17/2018
Topic:
Tools and Strategies
Charles Duran
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I have used technology in my classroom to have students print a song (using Finale) they wrote as part of a lesson to teach "motif", and theme development. The students wrote the song and then put it into Finale. If there were measures with too many or too few beats the program would not let them proceed. It really seemed to cement the concepts of motif and eliminated any of the students with really poor fine-motor skillsimpacting their writing and ability to place notes exactly on the correct line or space |
4/17/2018
Topic:
Assessment of Learning
Charles Duran
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I had a tuba player who sprained his arm. I had him play bass drum, since the lesson was on dotted quarter note / eighth note rhythm patterns in multiple time signatures. When he recovered, he transferred the rhythm pattern to tuba no problem. |