Special Education

• Provide students with cooperative and other forms of group learning.
• Connect new concepts to the real world of experience.
• Use multi-sensory experiences in activities.
• Use multi-modal teaching strategies for delivery of instruction. For example, use kinesthetic learning, scripting, or role playing.
• Use visual and tactile modalities to augment listening.
• Provide direct teaching on social skills and etiquette for performance and audience.
• Provide students with advance organizers of key concepts.
• Adapt the pace of activities.
• Exemplify ideas through the use of concrete materials such as models.
• Foster personal involvement through the study of areas of fine arts that directly affect the student.
• Keep work samples for student reference.
• Find ways to help the student in getting organized and taking on responsibility.
• Provide a variety of ways for students to practice new vocabulary and tasks, such as team games and software programs.
• Use peers, student tutors, or volunteers to assist.
• Use teacher assistants to work with small groups of students, as well as with an identified student with FAS/E.
• Use consultants and support teachers for problem solving and to assist in developing strategies for fine arts instruction.

Appendix 10: Fine Arts
Skills Checklist