1/16/2024
Topic:
Assessment of Learning
Smruti Sakatos
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- Describe at least one way you have used technology to meet the needs of a student with a disability in your classroom. Be sure to describe the specific technology and how it assisted the student with a disability.
- As an Elementary Music Educator, our approved curriculum is digital (Quaver Music), and most activities can be sent out directly to students to access on their own devices. While I generally prefer a class with central focus, I discovered quite a few of my students were unable to complete the tasks I had assigned, so I created a video in the activities, rather like a picture-in-picture, and sent that out to their accounts, to walk the students directly through each step. I have a few non-verbal students as well, and through the use of modeling, visual demonstration, and tactile experimentation, I have been able to use technology to assess their understanding of some of the major musical concepts in music. Many of my students are extremely able to utilize their iPads during learning games and can easily participate in the Quaver curriculum that I use. I try to include more instruments and movement games to reinforce the learning goals. Some of my students, especially in the ACCESS point class, have surprised me with their musical ability.
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1/16/2024
Topic:
Assessment of Learning
Smruti Sakatos
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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.
- When I am assessing singing ability, I will use simple echo songs, where I sing a small phrase and then the students "echo" what they've just heard. Many of the students in my ACCESS class, as well as in my ESE VE class are reluctant to sing, or sometimes even to make a verbal response. One way I demonstrated to show "high" and "low" was to use scarves, where we tossed them up into the air or swirled them down by our knees. Often I will sing softly with a students in order to encourage them to use their own voices, and that tends to have great success as well.
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