The Invisible Student Reflection
Michael Ippolito
Sept. 25, 2016
Dr. Veblen
Annotation: Hourigan
Hourigan, M. Ryan. (2016). The invisible student: Understanding social identity construction within performing ensembles. Music educators journal 95(4): 34-38
In this article Hourigan writes about what he describes as an invisible student. He talks about a boy named Jason who suffered from what the article calls a traumatic brain injury syndrome. Jason has a hard time socializing with the other students in his band class. He enters and exits class every day without talking to anyone. This reading raises quite a few questions. As most articles of this standard do. It raises such questions as: what could I do to help identify invisible students or how could I help them socialize with other students more comfortably? The article talks about how teachers should be aware of invisible students such as Jason. It gives teachers different ideas on how to help these invisible students feel more confident about socializing with the other students.
The key points of this reading are to raise awareness of invisible students and to also help show people ways of making these students feel more comfortable. It gives ideas on various different ways to help make these students more comfortable socializing with others such as by pairing each younger student with an older one, having thee students perform in small groups with other students, or even have some of the more advanced students offer to help these invisible students. I was surprised at all of the different ways that were suggested to help these invisible students be more social. I was surprised and also quite impressed at how many ideas were presented. Some of these ideas I probably would have never thought of. I was very interested in some of these ideas. I definitely liked the idea of the pairing a young student up with an older one and would consider using it should I end up becoming a music teacher. One other thing that kept my interest and also surprised me was how easy it actually was for students like this to become invisible to others. At the time one might not give it much thought. However, looking back I realize there were a couple people whom some would describe as invisible students that I failed to notice for this exact reason. One thing I would like to ask the author is: Would you ever consider doing more with this article and these ideas? My reason for this being that reading an article is one thing. However, actually having the writer come in and speak to you in person can have a much greater impact.
Michael Ippolito
Sept. 25, 2016
Dr. Veblen
Annotation: Hourigan
Hourigan, M. Ryan. (2016). The invisible student: Understanding social identity construction within performing ensembles. Music educators journal 95(4): 34-38
In this article Hourigan writes about what he describes as an invisible student. He talks about a boy named Jason who suffered from what the article calls a traumatic brain injury syndrome. Jason has a hard time socializing with the other students in his band class. He enters and exits class every day without talking to anyone. This reading raises quite a few questions. As most articles of this standard do. It raises such questions as: what could I do to help identify invisible students or how could I help them socialize with other students more comfortably? The article talks about how teachers should be aware of invisible students such as Jason. It gives teachers different ideas on how to help these invisible students feel more confident about socializing with the other students.
The key points of this reading are to raise awareness of invisible students and to also help show people ways of making these students feel more comfortable. It gives ideas on various different ways to help make these students more comfortable socializing with others such as by pairing each younger student with an older one, having thee students perform in small groups with other students, or even have some of the more advanced students offer to help these invisible students. I was surprised at all of the different ways that were suggested to help these invisible students be more social. I was surprised and also quite impressed at how many ideas were presented. Some of these ideas I probably would have never thought of. I was very interested in some of these ideas. I definitely liked the idea of the pairing a young student up with an older one and would consider using it should I end up becoming a music teacher. One other thing that kept my interest and also surprised me was how easy it actually was for students like this to become invisible to others. At the time one might not give it much thought. However, looking back I realize there were a couple people whom some would describe as invisible students that I failed to notice for this exact reason. One thing I would like to ask the author is: Would you ever consider doing more with this article and these ideas? My reason for this being that reading an article is one thing. However, actually having the writer come in and speak to you in person can have a much greater impact.