5/21/2018
Topic:
Assessment of Learning
Deirdre Hunt
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Option 1: Provide/Describe one or more examples of adapted or alternative assessments you have successfully used in the music classroom for students with disabilities. Be sure to identify the student's disability. Share your response in the threaded discussion.
I have several students with autism. I have three paraprofessionals in the classroom with me. We often use the SmartBoard and sensory board for responses to the music. We use partners to explore in learning centers and our new iPads from HEAL have been so beneficial for our students to answer our questions. This year our students were assessed with the general education classes in our District Resource Test-EOC. I am anxious to see how they scored. |
5/21/2018
Topic:
Assessment of Learning
Deirdre Hunt
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David Norris wrote:
I have an ASD class that comes to music once every eight school days. The students are non-verbal, but communicate through gestures and emotive sounds. I brought in a box of pvc elbow joints for the students to talk/vocalize into one end while the other end was near their ear. The assessment was how verbal they became after hearing their own voice.
I love that idea! Thank you for the idea. |
5/21/2018
Topic:
Students with Disabilities
Deirdre Hunt
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I currently have a student with Oculocutaneous Albinism and she needs several accommodations school-wide. In the music class, we have added total blackout shades to cover the eleven windows, changed out the fluorescent lighting, created large print labeling throughout the room, provided large-print vocabulary flash cards, large-print worksheets and printed all of her computer-based district and school assessments in a large-print packet. She loves music and playing the Orff instruments which are all labeled with large note stickers and a large copy of the songs we are performing together. |