Get Your Students Hired
Very good course. I gained a new insight into the student with learning disabilities. Our policy with students with an IEP is the Instructor cannot ask the student if they have an accommodation. This is against the FASFA regulations. We refer students to our Student Services department with a blanket announcement at the beginning of each course.
Yes: What can we do together to make this course (class) and its requirements work for you?
The question requires more than a one-word answer, and "we" means student, teacher and the resources of the school.
Thanks so much for your comments, Troy! I apologize for the delay in responding; returning from business travel and catching up. Keeping the accomodations confidential for special circumstances and challenges is crucial and follows the letter of the law, so to speak.
Glad you enjoyed the course and please feel free to participate at any time in the post-course discussion forum.
Jay Hollowell
ED106 Facilitator
we dont announce it in front of class which student needs these accomadations, its kept private and the student handles it in student services prior to the course startand approaches instructor with the necessary accomadations. it was a great course, i learned alot about disabilities and how to deal with them, gained alot of new insight and a few good ideas for motivational lectures, a few new whifms as well im quite pleased with the materieal,
thank you
Our class size is relatively small 16 to 20 students. With this in mind it is easier to customize lesson plans for individual students. Whether it is a learning disability or just a students desire to learn more about a particular subject, we owe it to the student to do what we can to encourage their learning. We do not need to make it easier.
Thanks, Mark! Yes, there are many challenges that adult learners face that can be both frustrating and de-motivating. We have to try to find each learner's best style for assimilating and applying concepts.
What are some learner challenges that you have faced in the classroom?
Jay Hollowell
ED106 Facilitator
Helped me to become more aware of the challenges the slower learners have to over come.
Yes, this reply was very helpful and I will emulate your approach. Additionally I already use several different teaching approaches to reach all different types of learners in my classes.
I am glad to hear that this is one of the ways to reach students with disablilities. I will incorpaorate this in my future classes.
Thanks so much for your reply ! It has helped me think of a different approach for one of my demos in my design class.
Hi Karen! Yes, you raise a very valid concern; often we work with student learning disabilities that have never been diagnosed and many of us may not have had formal training in working with adult learners with these challenges.
I have always tried to address the different learning styles in the classroom so that even learning disabled students who are more auditory oriented, more visually oriented or more hands-on oriented each have the chance to succeed. When they refuse help, or don't admit to the problem, I have tried to talk with them privately and individually, not from the perspective of "you have a learning disability," but from the perspective of "what can we do together to make the course and its requirements work for you?" (notice, of course, that I didn't say "What can we do to make it easier for you?"). They still must meet the requirements, but our classrooms are more forgiving than the workplace.
I'm not sure of a solution other than a case-by-case basis.
Jay Hollowell
ED106 Facilitator
This was a very informative section . But I feel frustrated during class when I have students with disabilities who have extreme problems with reading/comprehension /basic math and they refuse help . They refuse to "self advocate" thus causing issues during class because it is almost impossible for them to keep up with the other students. We do make an annoucement at the beginning of the course about the services at our college but many of these adults refuse the help /some dont admit the problem/many have never received help through their younger years and have "slipped under the radar". I hope this can be further addressed , it would be helpful to a lot of instructors.
I am ACRONYM challenged. FASFA has nothing to do with my reply. The policy falls under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Sorry for the confusion.