
Arts4All Florida provides webinars during the school year so that teaching artists, classroom teachers, cultural arts organizations, parents, and adult artists with disabilities can keep up-to-date on the latest information in arts and disability.
These webinars are provided free of charge; however, registration is required.
Upcoming Webinars
Creating an Inclusive Environment for Students with Disabilities in the Music Classroom
This webinar will include multiple strategies for providing a more inclusive environment for students with varying disabilities when studying music in a classroom setting. Topics will include: accommodations for students learning music, how to best to address a student’s needs during rehearsals, adapting lesson plans, and a summary of adaptive tools that can assist a student to ensure they are successful in learning the classroom music material.
Presenter:
Matt Weihmuller is a saxophonist and music educator in Tampa who is totally blind. He attended the H.W. Blake High School of the Arts and then moved to Tallahassee, where he completed both his undergraduate education (magna cum laude) and masters of music degrees at Florida State University. He relocated back to the Tampa area in 2012, where he has been the jazz and saxophone instructor at the Patel Conservatory at the David A. Straz Jr. Center for the Performing Arts for the last nine years, including the Patel conservatory's annual "Jazz Intensive" summer camp furthering students' improvisational skills. Matt joined the Arts4All Florida organization in 2014, where he currently works with the Young Performers Program. He also performs with several groups of varying genres and has enjoyed a number of opportunities to act as a speaker or panelist sharing his unique experiences regarding the subject of diverse learning, including several engagements as a guest lecturer at the Peabody Conservatory at John Hopkins University in Baltimore. His greatest personal goal is to champion the cause of increasing Braille literacy for young blind musicians.
When: October 17th and 18th, 4-5 PM EST
Register here.
Archived Webinars
Hearing Loss in a Music Education Setting: Teacher and Student
The Best of Both Worlds: Learning and Teaching Music Blind - March 1, 2022
Music and Students Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
Access for All - March 22 (theater toolbox)
Exploring TAB- Teaching for Artistic Behaviors - February 24, 2021
Basic Accommodations and Assistive Technology in the Arts - November 10, 2020
Strategies and Tools for Teaching Visual Art Online - September 24, 2020
Strategies and Tools for Teaching Music Online - September 29, 2020
Differentiated Instruction and Alternate Assessment in Music - September 18, 2019
Working Collaboratively with the Special Education Teacher and Paraprofessional in the Art Classroom - November 7, 2019
The Healing Power of Art - Dealing with Trauma When You Aren't an Art Therapist - February 26, 2020
