https://padlet.com/katheleenkiraly/uamnz2zkquci by Katheleen O'Keefe en-us 2018-09-09 18:37:15 UTC 2018-09-13 04:07:57 UTC hello@padlet.com katheleenkiraly https://padlet.com/katheleenkiraly/uamnz2zkquci/wish/280623667 The art classroom needs to be accessible for students' with all levels of disabilities. The main problem that art teachers meet is that they have limited time with the students, limited understanding of the students' disability, and the special education teacher has limited understanding of the art classroom. 
 ]]> 2018-09-13 01:25:25 UTC https://padlet.com/katheleenkiraly/uamnz2zkquci/wish/280623667 katheleenkiraly https://padlet.com/katheleenkiraly/uamnz2zkquci/wish/280623979 It is important that the art teacher form a close collaboration with the special education teacher and/or the paraeducator to ensure that the art classroom and curriculum is uniquely accessible to all of their students' with disabilities. 
 ]]> 2018-09-13 01:27:20 UTC https://padlet.com/katheleenkiraly/uamnz2zkquci/wish/280623979 katheleenkiraly https://padlet.com/katheleenkiraly/uamnz2zkquci/wish/280631267 A high number of art teachers feel that they are not adequately trained, prepared, and provided access to adaptations and assistive technology to provide the optimum accessibility to their art students with disabilities. Even without the needed support, art teachers overwhelmingly work hard to provide the best art class experience for their students' with disabilities and strive to obtain the necessary support, education, and resources needed to help them. ]]> 2018-09-13 02:04:24 UTC https://padlet.com/katheleenkiraly/uamnz2zkquci/wish/280631267 katheleenkiraly https://padlet.com/katheleenkiraly/uamnz2zkquci/wish/280632680 Para educators are a great assistance to art teachers and students' but in the art classroom there is a tendency for them to over help students in their efforts to make the project look like the students' peers. It takes an art teachers leadership and skill to help the para educator define what assistance is helpful and what assistance is actually a detriment to the students' social growth and creativity in the classroom. ]]> 2018-09-13 02:10:44 UTC https://padlet.com/katheleenkiraly/uamnz2zkquci/wish/280632680 katheleenkiraly https://padlet.com/katheleenkiraly/uamnz2zkquci/wish/280639145 The use of adaptations in the classroom can have a profound affect on the overall art experience of a student with disabilities. There are a wide range of adaptations ranging from assistive technology to adaptive scissors. But the issue with adaptations is that not all schools have accessibility to certain adaptations, art teachers are not trained in adaptations, and there is not a close enough collaboration with the special education team to understand what the students' needs are in respects to adaptations.]]> 2018-09-13 02:42:14 UTC https://padlet.com/katheleenkiraly/uamnz2zkquci/wish/280639145