Teaching Music Remotely: Strategies for Students With Disabilities

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 39-41
Author(s):  
Ellary A. Draper
Keyword(s):  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
School Year ◽  
Asynchronous Instruction ◽  
Teaching Music ◽  
Remote Learning

As schools closed in March 2020 due to COVID-19, students and teachers began engaging in remote learning. Remote instruction continued through the end of the 2020 school year and many have continued to teach remotely for at least part of, if not all of the 2020–2021 school year. While teaching music remotely is not ideal, music teachers have successfully shifted to different combinations of synchronous and asynchronous instruction with their students. The shift to remote learning is challenging for students and teachers alike, and there are additional challenges for students with disabilities engaging in remote instruction or drastically different in-person classrooms. This article includes an overview of concerns facing students with disabilities during COVID-19 as well as strategies specific to students with disabilities to successfully engage in remote instruction.

Developing Effective Dispositions for Teaching Music

2019 ◽  
pp. 321-344
Author(s):  
Michael Raiber
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Developmental Stages ◽  
Music Teacher ◽  
Teacher Dispositions ◽  
Teacher Concerns ◽  
Teaching Music ◽  
The Impact

The impact of teacher dispositions on the professional development of preservice music teachers (PMTs) has been substantiated. This chapter describes an approach to dispositional development within the structure of an introduction to music education course. A teacher concerns model is used to organize this systematic approach through three developmental stages that include self-concerns, teaching task concerns, and student learning concerns. A series of 11 critical questions are presented for use in guiding PMTs’ dispositional development through these developmental stages. Activities to engage PMTs in the exploration of each of these questions are detailed for use by music teacher educators desiring to engage PMTs in dispositional development.

The charmed dyad: Multimodal music lessons for pupils with severe or multiple disabilities

2021 ◽  
pp. 1321103X2097480
Author(s):  
Melissa Bremmer ◽  
Carolien Hermans ◽  
Vincent Lamers
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Multiple Disabilities ◽  
Children's Music ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Music Lessons ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Teaching Music

This multiple-case-studies research explored a multimodal approach to teaching music to pupils (from 4 to 18 years old) with severe or multiple disabilities. By combining music with, for example, tactile stimulation, movement, or visuals, meaning-making processes in music of these pupils was stimulated, helping them to understand the internal structures and expressive qualities of music. Three music teachers and a social worker participated in this study. Individual and collective video reflections and microanalysis were applied to gather data about their multimodal teaching practice. The data were analyzed through Schmid’s framework (2015) of “multimodal dimensions of children’s music experiences,” developed for general music education. This framework consists of four dimensions: narrativity, sociality, materiality, and embodiment. Based on the findings, Schmid’s framework could be revised for special education, thus providing music teachers with a tool for designing multimodal music lessons for pupils with severe or multiple disabilities.

The method of emotional education in music teaching

2021 ◽  
pp. 002072092098355
Author(s):  
Hui Hong ◽  
Weisheng Luo
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Aesthetic Education ◽  
Music Teaching ◽  
True Meaning ◽  
School Music ◽  
Teaching Music ◽  
Emotional Education

Wang Guowei, a famous scholar and thinker in our country, thinks that “aesthetic education harmonizes people's feelings in the process of emotional music education, so as to achieve the perfect domain”, “aesthetic education is also emotional education”. Therefore, in the process of music education, emotional education plays an important role in middle school music teaching, and it is also the highest and most beautiful realm in the process of music education in music teaching. Music teachers should be good at using appropriate teaching methods and means. In the process of music education, they should lead students into the emotional world, knock on their hearts with the beauty of music, and touch their heartstrings. Only when students' hearts are close to music in the process of music education, can they truly experience the charm of music and realize the true meaning of music in the process of music education. Only in this way can music classes be effectively implemented The purpose of classroom emotion teaching.

Augmentative and Alternative Communication and Remote Learning

2021 ◽  
pp. 875687052110525
Author(s):  
Marla J. Lohmann ◽  
Alexandria Kappel ◽  
Matthew S. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Augmentative And Alternative Communication ◽  
Virtual Classroom ◽  
Assistive Technologies ◽  
Individualized Education Programs ◽  
Alternative Communication ◽  
Language Disabilities ◽  
Online Classrooms ◽  
Access Services ◽  
Remote Learning

For rural locations, the use of remote learning may provide schools the opportunity to meet student needs without the need for students to travel long distances to access services. It is critical that teachers of students with disabilities understand how to support learning and know how to use the accommodations, modifications, and assistive technologies listed in student Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) in online classrooms. Students with language disabilities sometimes require augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems to effectively communicate. This article provides teachers with practical tips of teaching students to use AAC online and supporting its continued use in the virtual classroom.

scholarly journals Creating a Meaningful Music Curriculum for Students With Disabilities

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-49
Author(s):  
Ellary A. Draper
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Traditional Curriculum ◽  
Music Curriculum ◽  
Music Classroom ◽  
Functional Curriculum

When teaching students with disabilities, it is important for music teachers to consider the functionality of the skills taught and learned beyond the music classroom. In special education, a curriculum centered on the life-long skills important for students to be independent in their communities is called a “functional curriculum.” Before considering how to adapt a traditional curriculum for students with disabilities, music teachers can used the ideas based in functional curriculum to develop a functional music curriculum, ensuring that both students with and without disabilities are learning the skills to engage in life-long music experiences.

Barriers to Providing Extended School Year Services to Students With Disabilities: An Exploratory Study of Special Education Directors

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 245-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Barnard-Brak ◽  
Tara Stevens ◽  
Evelyn Valenzuela
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Special Education Directors ◽  
Extended School Year ◽  
School Year ◽  
Qualified Personnel ◽  
Education Directors

The purpose of the current study was to examine barriers, if any, reported by special education directors to providing extended school year (ESY) services. Results indicate four barriers to providing ESY services listed in order of importance by special education directors: difficulty in finding qualified personnel to work over the summer, determining eligibility for ESY services, compliance of parents, and limited financial resources to provide ESY services. Rural special education directors reported the barrier of difficulty in finding qualified personnel significantly more often than nonrural directors. Rural special education directors also reported significantly more barriers to providing ESY services in general.

Transforming Music Teaching via Technology: The Role of Professional Development

2003 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 289-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
William I. Bauer ◽  
Sam Reese ◽  
Peter A. McAllister
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Music Technology ◽  
Music Teaching ◽  
Demographic Information ◽  
Teaching Music ◽  
K 12

The purpose of this study was to determine if 1-week technology workshops can be an effective means for the professional development of music teachers in using technology for instruction. The results indicate that three indicators of effectiveness—teacher knowledge, teacher comfort, and frequency of teacher use—can he significantly improved in these settings. Participants ( N = 63) were music teachers enrolled in summer music technology workshops. At the beginning of the workshops, participants completed a questionnaire designed to provide demographic information and assess their knowledge of music technology, degree of comfort with music technology, and the frequency with which they used music technology in their teaching. Following an intensive weeklong workshop dealing with strategies for teaching music to K—12 students using music technology, participants completed a second questionnaire that was parallel to the first. Participants completed another similar questionnaire 9 to 10 months after the workshop. Significant differences were found between the pre-and. postworkshop questionnaires, between the preworkshop and follow-up questionnaires, and, between the postworkshop and follow-up questionnaires in all three areas. There was also a moderate correlation ( r = .43, p = .00) between participants' frequency of technological use and the degree to which they reported their access to technological resources.

scholarly journals Remote Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic for Students with Learning Disabilities: Challenges and Opportunities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Egija Laganovska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
General Education ◽  
Special Education Teachers ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Students With Learning Disabilities ◽  
School Year ◽  
Remote Learning

The situation in general education in Latvia has changed since the spring semester of 2020. On the 13th of March 2020 Latvia temporarily introduced remote training at all stages of education. The government regularly monitored the spread of the COVID-19 virus and the number of infections, so restrictions in different areas have changed frequently. Educational institutions for students of 1st–12th grade (ages 6–17) in the 2020/2021 school year worked under fluctuating circumstances, and most of the learning process took place remotely. For most of the 2020/2021 school year, teaching and learning were thus largely based on technology and online teaching. The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on various aspects of life, such as the economy, education, and social life. This time has led to challenges as well as opportunities for students, teachers, and parents. It has also affected the learning process for students with learning disabilities. For grades 1–12, the Individualised Education Plan (IEP) was developed in Latvia for students with learning disabilities. The IEP had to be adapted to the broader situation, and to work towards its betterment special education teachers participated in the preparation and organisation of the IEP. The aim of this study is to explore the opinions of special education teachers and to examine what support measures are provided for students with learning disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. What are the challenges (barriers, obstacles) and what are the opportunities (benefits) of remote learning? Our research methods involved a literature analysis, a survey of special education teachers from Latvia, and a data collection effort and analysis. The study was conducted by distributing questionnaires via Google Forms. During this research, 70 special education teachers were surveyed.

scholarly journals The Effect of Co-teaching on Student Cognitive Engagement

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-19
Author(s):  
Wendy Whitehair Lochner ◽  
Wendy W. Murawski ◽  
Jaime True Daley
Keyword(s):  
General Education ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Cognitive Engagement ◽  
Preparation Programs ◽  
Teacher Shortages ◽  
School Year ◽  
Engagement Strategies ◽  
12Th Grade ◽  
District Personnel

Delivering special education to students with disabilities requires highly prepared and collaborative teachers, inclusive learning environments, and strategies that promote cognitive engagement, but many students lack access to these necessities. In rural schools teacher shortages and traditional teaching methods may contribute to disengagement. Some rural districts have turned to co-teaching to disrupt this pattern of inequity. Effective co-teaching between two highly prepared teachers in a general education setting offers students the opportunity to be included and may improve engagement for all students. To investigate the relationship between co-teaching and student cognitive engagement, this study observed teachers in eight rural secondary schools in West Virginia to evaluate differences in student cognitive engagement in co-taught versus solo-taught classrooms. Four district personnel were trained on both cognitive engagement strategies and co-teaching approaches and collected observational data. The Instructional Practices Inventory was used during short walk-throughs to measure cognitive engagement during 701 solo-taught and 181 co-taught observations. Observations occurred in 5th- through 12th-grade classes in reading, mathematics, science, and social studies throughout one full school year. Statistical tests compared mean engagement scores across the different models of instruction. Results indicated that students in co-taught classrooms were more cognitively engaged than students in solo-taught classrooms. These results suggest the need for increased professional development for teams to move beyond the one teach, one support model of co-teaching, additional research on cognitive engagement and co-teaching, and teacher preparation programs to include more examples of, and training in, quality co-teaching models.

scholarly journals Understanding Principals’ Knowledge of Special Education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Whitney G. Schexnider
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Special Education ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Principal Preparation ◽  
School Administrators ◽  
The United States ◽  
Preparation Programs ◽  
Principal Preparation Programs ◽  
Related Information ◽  
School Year

The percentage of students identified as eligible to receive special education services in the United States has grown from 8.3% in the 1976-77 school year to 14% during the 2018-19 school year (Hussar et al., 2020). Given this level of growth and the myriad of levels of support principals provide for students with disabilities, one would assume that principal preparation programs have adjusted their curriculum to ensure future school administrators are prepared to support every student, including those with disabilities. The purpose of this research study is to better understand how current school administrators learned special education-related information for their role, what they believe are the most important aspects of special education, and to identify how background, experience, and self-efficacy play a role in principals’ skills related to their role as their building’s special education leader. A web-based survey was used to gather information from current school administrators working in Idaho’s P-12 school districts. Results of this study show that the majority of Idaho’s school administrators are learning special education-related knowledge and skills on the job and through professional development, rather than as part of their principal preparation programs. Recommendations are made to enhance the learning opportunities in both principal preparation programs as well as in-service professional development to develop strong, supportive, school-based special education leaders.

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