When your philosophy is to work through your students ability, you adapt your lessons by teaching to your students strengths and what skills they possess. Look at the objectives of your lesson and decide which objectives can be reached by your students with disabilities. The objectives for the the lesson below were to create a closeup composition of a musical instrument, create a background using a collage technique, and to add details using an embellishment.
On the left side is the lesson/artworks created by an able-bodied peer, meeting the lessons objectives while encouraging individual creativity.
On the right side is the adapted lesson/artworks where the student was given a choice of several guitar tracers to select from, an outline of the guitars shape was hand-over-hand drawn so the students with low-vision could easily see where to paint. The guitar was successfully painted independently by the students. Re-directing was used with the students to encourage them to fill the entire background with tissue collage. All students with disabilities demonstrated the original lessons objectives while exhibiting choice of color, shape, collage and embellishment decisions allowing individual creativity.
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| Adaptive Art Tracers |
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| Guitar |
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| Adaptive Guitar |
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| Cello |
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| Adaptive Guitar |
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