Abby and Sydnee lead discussion this week!

After reading chapter 6 and 20, and the supporting texts sent to you this week, please answer these questions. Thanks! 1.) The author (a former art teacher) shares her personal experiences of how she wasn’t respectful and didn’t understand what her students with disabilities in her art room needed. Have you ever felt, uncertain, scared, or even frustrated working with students with disabilities, like the author did? Describe your experience and share what you learned from it? 2.) How can you adapt your lessons for students with disabilities while still keeping it aimed toward their interests and still challenge them?  What are some ways you would make your curriculum and classroom environment more adaptive for student with disabilities? List at least 3 ways. 3.) The author from chapter 20 discusses how she left out artists with disabilities in her curriculum, therefore not providing experiences for her disabled students to see themselves represented in art class. Find an artist with a disability who you could include in a typical art lesson as an artist example. Share this artist and tell why they would be a good choice. Here is an example of an artist, Ida Applebroog who showed great courage and published her sketchbook drawings from her hospital stay while struggling with depression. Ida Applebroog, “Mercy Hospital” (1969), watercolor and ink on paper (from Hyperallergic) Check her out on Art 21