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choice based art for students with disabilities choice based art for students with disabilities thursday february 17 2005 going through mounting artworks for arnheim gallery today i mounted digital pixes of students 3d works and original 2d works as i spread out the mounted works i couldn t help noticing no two projects look alike each one has it s own theme and unique learning approaches i think back when i have been working with my art students for past nine years many times i have told them it is not just about doing art but much more in seeing them applying their critical thinking skill problem solving skill mastering tools with proper usuage and care talking in art terms with on going dialogues this one is the hardest for the kids and me due to visual cognitive language comprehension i am working on it also working in progress practicing practicing practicing doing it again and again with each new in sightful suggestions to try one thing for sure i never have had a dull moment posted by kayakgal at 2 17 2005 10 44 00 pm 0 comments tuesday february 15 2005 my favorite highlight of today s construction center since i introduced construction center a month ago i started to see how creative and inventive some of my deaf students are doing this particular student age 12 has amazed me with his hidden inventive mind to come up with a potential invention to improve his deaf peers communication some day first of all he is a bright receptive learner with difficulty to express himself clearly through sign language and no vocalizing speech skill yet he has the very keen observational and critical thinking skills to create a videophone answering machine cd dvd burner he managed to explain to me that if a deaf person need to leave a phone message that calling person deaf or hearing would leave his her own video imaged of his her signing messages on the cd dvd burner then the recieving person would see a flashed signal of incoming call he she would take out the cd from the answering machine and insert it into the dvd player and watched the messages who called on the tv screen my own deaf son a high school senior thought that would be the coolest thing to have the point here is any kids with special needs has some surprising hidden talents of what they are capable of beyond their disabilities the choice based art learning brings out the delightful unexpected artistic results when you least expected from these unique kids posted by kayakgal at 2 15 2005 11 55 00 pm 0 comments monday february 14 2005 it s february already so far having centers set up and running one of most popular centers i have introduced is the construction center the preschoolers have been practicing how to saw and hammer safely with safety rules they must follow with safety goggles and adult staff supervision they just love to hammer away those nails on wooden scraps i should be getting a huge stand alone tree stump installed in my art room for nail driven practices great for practicing hands eyes coordinations and gross motor skills early safety training skills with respect to tools handling and putting these away the elementary students especially the boys are into creating a birdhouse a sitting skateboard a dance house and a mysterious wooden sculpture yet to be determined a pair of high school boys are building a world trade center model with recycled materials which require their independent critical thinking and problem solving skills fiber art center is the second popular one the preschoolers and elementary students are not yet interested to it the middle and high school transition special needs students are into circular weaving on pizza rounds and with old telephone cables and yarns two different rug hooking projects shared the same rug frame setup are work in progress first is with oxford punch needle and yarns and other one is with a rug hook and precut skinny fabric strips painting center is next doing on 2d and 3d surfaces all levels of learning are attracted to this center clay center has sort of quiet down after excitement playing with wet clays and plenty of pieces were made lizard bowl hearts star patterned bowl basketball hand built bowls few high school students experiment with the electric pottery wheel all half hour classes were not permitted to use the whell because time is too short and needs my 1 1 instructional guidances as of this week i am getting the digital pixes of students works and mounting them for the upcoming naea event in boston during march 4 8 2005 these will be exhibit along with the other tab colleagues student artworks as well at the massachusett college of arts s anhiem gallery whoever reads this should come and see the students works from our choice based art programs then happy valentine posted by kayakgal at 2 14 2005 06 15 00 pm 0 comments choice based art for students with disabilities choice based art for students with disabilities based posted by kayakgal at 2 14 2005 06 14 00 pm 0 comments tuesday january 18 2005 here s my art room centers i have started setting up at raw stages at beginning of january these centers have been updated with additional book resources and suggested projects to encourage students to try now i have figure out how to use the hello how easy to do now i just need to work on visual posted menus and rules for each center do any of you have existed menus posted at your centers can you blog it to share with me and others students have responded with enthusiasms to the new changes and opportunities to explore with plenty of choices to choose from there are still some students requiring structures from time to time especially with austism children my classes size averages from 3 8 students at a time so i am able to provide at least 5 minutes per student of my attention to give him her a mini lesson suggestions guidance and encouragements etc plus i have paraeducators to assist me as needed parental volunteers are a rare breed here because of the school is a mixture of residental and day students soon i will post my latest pixs of how my centers have upgraded after the quarterly reports done this week my latest projects are working on the quarterly assessment forms for all grade level using vermont standards grade expectations guidelines posted by kayakgal at 1 18 2005 06 40 00 pm 1 comments painting center near the sink posted by kayakgal at 1 18 2005 06 22 00 pm 0 comments drawing tools and light table area posted by kayakgal at 1 18 2005 06 21 00 pm 0 comments drawing center posted by kayakgal at 1 18 2005 06 18 00 pm 0 comments cardboard center posted by kayakgal at 1 18 2005 06 04 00 pm 0 comments construction center posted by kayakgal at 1 18 2005 05 59 00 pm 0 comments claywork center posted by kayakgal at 1 18 2005 05 58 00 pm 0 comments fiber arts centers knitting rughooking yarn coil weaving punchneedling posted by kayakgal at 1 18 2005 05 56 00 pm 0 comments thursday january 06 2005 3jan2005_a new beginning of choice based art centers monday 3 jan 2005 was a new beginning to restart with new teaching strategy in my art room at school i am the prek 12 visual arts teacher for deaf hard of hearing and hearing with communication disorder students some of these students also have additional special needs and all are being served with iep services since oct 2004 when we teachers for the deaf were told to re evaluate our existing curriculums and teaching methods we are preparing to be re accreditated by the vermont department of education and newly accreditated by conference of educational administrators of schools and programs for the deaf ceasd within next two years at the beginning of my own teaching s self assessment i have found myself not being quite happy with the way i was teaching for several reasons for past six years working at this school i am witnessing the incoming student population being evolved from normal deaf and hard of hearing students to similar kinds of students but with additional disabilities emotional mental and physical learning difficulties with newer population their iep services have increased thus more students were being pulled out of my art classes for services which in turns were tangling up my daily teachings lesson plannings and assessing my student s artistic progresses and additionally being a case manager which i am not thrilled doing this part the previous art curriculums i have developed and used were mostly teacher centered lessons i provided to my students yet i felt never satisfied and i sensed the students felt the same way i had longed for some kind of better learning choices to empower my students artistic instincts and to nurture their creative outcomes so i spent past 3 months researching and reading on internet and at libraries plus talking with my colleagues administrators and several art educators in vermont then on the internet one night before two weeks winter break i bumbled into the knowledge loom website ooooo boy bingo i was so excited when i read it and kept reading more on it i gave up my one week vacation before 24 dec and spent three solid days from dawn to dusk to re arrange my art room s spaces roughly into centers the advantages i had were i was montessori trained and understood how centers work and it was a mid year break a perfect time to start afresh then after vacation i informed my principal of my curriculum changes ahead of time when the students returned this past monday 3 january the students were in for a surprise i started them out with the drawing center while i am continuing to work on the next centers clay fiber arts and paper constructions amazingly so far my students have had no problems making new transitions accepting new rules and routines they even discovered they can choose within the creative structured choices i set out for them while other centers are under construction and to sit wherever they can focus best on their creativity the students and i have been re energized i will posted some pixs of my under constrction centers as soon as i figure out to blog these online posted by kayakgal at 1 06 2005 11 46 00 pm 0 comments about as of 3 jan 2005 a teaching artistic behavior program tab is being applied in the prek 12 art studio set up for students who are either deaf hard of hearing or hearing with or without additional disabilities primary language instruction is signed asl secondary in spoken english previous going through mounting artworks for arnheim gallery my favorite highlight of today s construction center it s february already choice based art for students with disabilities here s my art room centers i have started setting painting center near the sink drawing tools and light table area drawing center cardboard center construction center archives january 2005 february 2005