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Accessible Arts Education
Principles, Habits, and Strategies to Unleash Every Student’s Creativity and Learning
This resource offers practical strategies to support students with disabilities in the arts. It provides guidance on reducing barriers, encouraging creativity, and fostering inclusive learning environments, ensuring all students can explore their potential and thrive in arts education.
Benefits
- Encourage disabled students’ agency through open dialogues about their strengths and learning needs
- Anticipate and alleviate barriers to student engagement, participation, and learning
- Reduce student anxiety through structured class environments and regularized routines
- Explore new teaching methods that stimulate different learning modalities for all students
- Incorporate greater visual cues, signals, and strategies to improve student learning
- Plan for instances of sensory overload and how best to respond and mitigate the effects
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Introducing Accessible Arts Education
Chapter 2: Encourage Students to Exercise Control and Agency
Chapter 3: Alleviate Anxiety and Create a Safe Learning Space
Chapter 4: Use Multiple Modalities and Pedagogical Approaches
Chapter 5: Support Learning With Visual Tools
Chapter 6: Anticipate and Alleviate Sensory Issues
Chapter 7: Bring It All Together
REPRODUCIBLES
Chapter 1: Introducing Accessible Arts Education
- Figure 1.1: Identifying Potential Barriers
- Figure 1.2: Examining Barriers and Planning Strategies to Reduce or Remove Them
- Figure 1.3: Separating the Goal From the Means
- Recruit Student Interest in More Than One Way
- Communicate in More Than One Way
- Assess in More Than One Way
- Create a Task Analysis
Chapter 2: Encourage Students to Exercise Control and Agency
- Figure 2.1: Flattening the Hierarchy Between Teacher and Student
- Figure 2.2: Providing Opportunities for Student Choice
Chapter 3: Alleviate Anxiety and Create a Safe Learning Space
Chapter 4: Use Multiple Modalities and Pedagogical Approaches
- Figure 4.1: Engaging Multiple Learning Modalities—Middle School General Music Lesson on Popular Song Form
- Figure 4.3: Planning for a Range of Pedagogical Approaches— Children’s Theater
Chapter 5: Support Learning With Visual Tools
Chapter 6: Anticipate and Alleviate Sensory Issues
- Figure 6.1: Conducting a Comprehensive Sensory Audit of the Learning Environment—Elementary School Visual Arts and Music Classroom
- Figure 6.3: Addressing and Modulating Potential Sensory Issues in the Learning Environment
- Figure 6.4: Addressing Sensory Issues in Planned Learning Activities
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