Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs: A Practical Resource brings together theory and policy and planning for instruction in K-12 classrooms. The resource is a result of collaboration between K-12 teachers, outstanding undergraduate and graduate music education students, and professionals in the field. The lesson ideas, lesson plans, and unit plans are organized according to the six domains posited by Alice Hammel and Ryan Hourigan in their book, Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs: A Label-free Approach (Second Edition). This book equips music educators to understand and implement teaching ideas into the domains of cognition, communication, behavior, emotions, and physical and sensory needs. Classroom-tested lesson plans include procedure outlines and assessments as well as guides for adaptation, accommodation, and modification needed for successful implementation in K-12 classrooms. As such, this eminently practical resource provides teachers with enough practical ideas to allow them to begin to create and adapt their own lesson plans for use with students of differing needs and abilities.

About the Author
Alice M. Hammel is a widely known music educator, author, and clinician whose experience in music is extraordinarily diverse. She teaches for James Madison and Virginia Commonwealth Universities in the areas of music education and music theory respectively, and has many years of experience teaching both instrumental and choral music in public and private schools. She has maintained a large, independent flute studio for over 25 years. Her primary goal is to become a better teacher with each passing day.

Reviews
"With Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs: A Practical Resource, Dr. Alice Hammel has integrated cutting edge theory, effective pedagogical principles, and specific classroom practice into a comprehensive and useful guide for music educators. All music educators -- regardless of their teaching setting or student population -- will refer to this text often, and will discover new ways to reach and assess every student." --Rhoda Bernard, Chair of Music Education, Boston Conservatory at Berklee "Hammel provides the educator with pragmatic teaching techniques to meet students' needs and a panoply of teacher-tested examples of how to apply them. This is a guide that reinforces solid musical content and engagement while paying special attention to learners who, with some extra care, can participate at their best."--Herbert D. Marshall, Professor of Music Education, Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music "Hammel unites theory with teaching practice through her realistic vignettes of music students with special needs in classrooms and ensembles, and offers outstanding lesson plans--by real teachers--as possible solutions to many typical challenges. This a text music educators will keep open on their desks for handy reference."--Ann Marie Stanley, Associate Professor of Music Education, The Louisiana State University School of Music



Book Information
ISBN 9780190665173
Author Alice Hammel
Format Paperback
Page Count 216
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 605g
Dimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 14mm