Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs A Practical Resource

by Hammel, Alice M.

• ISBN13: 9780190665173
• ISBN10: 0190665173
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2017-08-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs: A Practical Resource brings together theory, policy, and planning for instruction in K-12 classrooms. The resource is a result of collaboration between K-12 teachers, outstanding undergraduate and graduate music education students, and professionals in the field. The lesson ideas, lesson plans, and unit plans are organized according to the six domains posited by Alice Hammel and Ryan Hourigan in their book, Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs: A Label-free Approach, Second Edition. This book equips music educators with understanding necessary to implement teaching ideas into the domains of cognition, communication, behavior, emotions, and physical and sensory needs. Classroom-tested lesson plans include procedure outlines and assessments as well as guides for adaptation, accommodation, and modification needed for successful implementation in K-12 classrooms. As such, this eminently useful guide provides teachers with enough practical ideas to allow them to begin to create and adapt their own lesson plans for use with students of differing needs and abilities.

Table of Contents

Contents

1. Introduction
Rationale For The Resource
Distinguishing Features
Ideas From Teaching Music To Students With Special Needs: A Label-Free Approach 2nd Edition
Curricular Modifications In Music Education For Students With Disabilities
Specific Ways To Utilize The Resource

2. The Communication Domain
Introduction
Vignettes And Lesson Plans For Music Classrooms And Ensemble Situations
Vignette: Jake
Lesson Plan: Joint Attention
Vignette: Milani
Lesson Plan: Pitch Matching And Improvisation
Vignette: Thomas
Lesson Plan: Rhythm, Eye Contact, Joint Attention
Vignette: Sarah
Lesson Plan: Interaction
Vignette: Carl
Lesson Plan: Performing On Percussion Instruments
Explanation Of Pedagogical Connections

3. The Cognitive Domain
Introduction
Description Of Students Who Struggle With Cognition
Vignettes Of And Lesson Plans Music Classroom And Ensemble Situations
Vignette: Alex And Jo
Lesson Plan: Rhythm And Keeping A Beat
Vignette: Kara
Lesson Plan: Verbal And Physical Response
Vignette: Troy
Lesson Plan: Kings And Queens
Explanations Of Pedagogical Connections

4. The Behavioral Domain
Introduction
Description Of Students Who Struggle With Behavior
Vignettes And Lesson Plans For Music Classrooms And Ensemble Situations
Vignette: Oscar
Lesson Plan: Loud And Soft
Vignette: Thomas
Lesson Plan: Ukulele Class
Vignette: Carl
Lesson Plan: Carl
Explanation Of Pedagogical Connections

5. The Emotional Domain
Introduction
Description Of Students Who Struggle With Emotions
Vignettes And Ideas For Music Classrooms And Ensemble Situations
Vignette: Maddie
Ideas: Maddie
Vignette: Josh
Ideas: Josh
Explanation Of Pedagogical Connections

6. The Sensory Domain
Introduction
Description Of Students Who Struggle With Sensory Information
Vignettes And Lesson Plans Of Music Classroom And Ensemble Situations
Vignette: Dominique
Lesson Plan: Dominque
Vignette: Miley
Lesson Plan: Miley
Vignette: Debbie
Lesson Plan: Debbie
Explanations Of Pedagogical Connections

7. The Physical Domain
Introduction
Description Of Students Who Struggle With Physical Access To The Curriculum
Vignettes And Lesson Plans Of Music Classroom And Ensemble Situations
Vignette: Fiona
Vignette: Mickey
Lesson Plan: Look To The Window
Vignette: Gareth
Lesson Plan: Gareth
Vignette: Sidney
Lesson Plan: Sidney
Explanations Of Pedagogical Connections

8. Unit Plans
Multi-Lesson Plans With Specific Adaptations For Students Who Struggle With One Or More Domain
Unit Plan 1 - Variations On A Korean Folk Song
Unit Plan 2 - Animal Theme
Unit Plan 3 - Upper Elementary Music Literacy
Additional Lesson Plans
Lesson Plan
Lesson Plan
Unit Plan: "All Round The Brickyard"
Lesson Plan
Lesson Plan "Engine Engine" Music Literacy With Instruments
Appendix A

9. Conclusions
Conclusions
General teaching strategies for students with special needs
Resources available for music educators
Examples of incremental sequencing
Concluding thoughts