Digital Portfolio
Standard One: Student Development and Diversity
Teachers of grades P-12 have a broad and comprhensive understanding of student development and diversity and demonstrate the ability to provide instruction that is responsive to student differences and that promotes development and learning for all students.
These brief applications describe ways one can adapt instruction for students with special needs. [Knowledge]
This synthesis of research articles examines possibilities for adapting instruction and integrating students with special needs. [Knowledge]
In order to allow a first grade student who could not play a real violin participate in violin class, I modified instruction by creating a cardboard violin. Read more and see picutres of the final product. [Performance]
Read about how I introduced hip-hop music in an elementary violin class, appealing to the diversity in the school population and helping teach open string rhythms while keeping a steady pulse. Watch a video of me doing this hip-hop warm-up with a large group class. [Performance]