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Ch 6: Curriculum & assessment. What is a curriculum?. Latin for “story” The story of what is supposed to happen in your classroom Scope and sequence Scope: what is in the radar to be learned Sequence: when each step towards the scope is to be taken and in what order.
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What is a curriculum? • Latin for “story” • The story of what is supposed to happen in your classroom • Scope and sequence • Scope: what is in the radar to be learned • Sequence: when each step towards the scope is to be taken and in what order
4 kinds of curricular models4 kinds of plot frameworks • Materials-centered • Use of series texts • Take a look at a scope/sequence • Use of stuff • World Drums • Content-centered • Music literature creates the goals • Show “Get America Singing..again” materials • Method approach • Orff/Kodaly/Gordon/ect • Experience-based/constructivist approach • Student learning experiences
Constructivist curricular model • Learning is a social process • Understanding is constructed through individual learning experiences • New understanding comes from building on prior understanding • John Dewey • Lev Vygotsky • Bandura
Constructivist = Student centeredfigure 6.1 (p.124) • Teacher centered lesson • Objectives have very firm parameters • Students work individually • Students are assessed individually by teacher • Student centered lesson • Objectives have flexible parameters • Students work in social groups • Students self- and peer-assess
Constructivist teaching has elements of surprise. End outcomes are not always known, • AKA, Mike and the didgeridoo
4 important teaching practices • Modality • Aural • Visual • kinesthetic • Pacing • How quickly material is covered • Size • How much material is covered at once • Color • Processing aid • Organization aid
Adaptations • To the degree that you change • Modality • Pacing • Size • Color • Is the degree to which the lesson is adapted for special learners • Modifications • accommodations
Let’s do a little lesson now, shall we? • Aquarium • Ask yourself: • Modalities? • Pace? • Size? • Color?
Two kinds of adaptations • Modifications • Changing the expectations of how much can be covered and/or understood • Accommodations • Changing the expectations of how the information will be presented and/or processed
Field trip time! Leave your things here • Come to the library.
To recap: • As stated in syllabus: • 1. Find a series text lesson that lists an adaptation for a student with a disability. • 2. Synopsize the lesson: where it was found, what the main concepts, objectives, activities are • 3. Describe the adaptation as either a modification or an accommodation and explain why. 4. Place in the drop box.
Some accommodations are achieved through assistive technology
Assistive Technology • AT Device- any item, piece of equipment, or product system, whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified, or customize, that is used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of a child with a disability.
Assistive Technology • may serve as a leveraging agent • greater academic success and independence.
Assistive technology mentioned in the IEP for the music classroom should be paid for using music department funds. • FALSE • Special education needs come from Special Ed funds • Don’t be shy about needing AT • Don’t be shy about getting on the IEP team
Music teachers say…. • 85.6% : responsible for adapting music education goals for students with disabilities, • 61% :not involved in the IEP development for students with disabilities that they teach. • McCord, 2005
Types of assistive technology • Seating and Positioning Aids • Computer/Musical Aids • Communication Aids • Vision/Reading Aids
Types of assistive technology • Seating and Positioning Aids • Computer/Musical Aids • Communication Aids • Vision/Reading Aids
Seating/Positioning Aids • Music teachers were most familiar with seating and positioning aids (52.7%).
Assignment for Wiki • 1) Find a suggested commercial musical aid for any disability. • 2) On the class wiki, describe the adaptation in 1-3 paragraphs, Include: • a) the company that sells the product • b) price of the product. • c) contact information for company • Make link as appropriate • d) description of what the product will do for what disability.