Journal 1
Learning Goals The established three goals for my practicum were coordinated with my mentor Joan Green, Director of Accessibility Resource Center (ARC) to be accomplished during the 2017 spring semester along with feedback from Professor Chavez.
• Goal 1. Gained knowledge in legal and procedural processes in the area of disability services, is a specialized skill set and critical to leadership development. Meeting weekly with select staff often include discussion around problem solving difficult and complex situations where university policy, department practice and legal procedures intersect with a student’s needs and/or requests for accommodation(s). A webinar training was attended titled Student Responsibility New Rules of Engagement.
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My leadership mentor embodies this combination from over 2 decades of experience in disability services particularly in higher education. Leaders earn Re-inventing myself in this industry specialization without years of preparation, is certainly a challenge and lacks the benefit of the same learning curve. I have asked myself if I’m up for the challenge to grow into a leadership role in ARC. This is not a new insight, but in this first month of examining the department and services from the director’s viewpoint rather than staff has been an eye-opening experience. How to fast-track the necessary range of knowledge to prepare for a future leadership role presents a unique opportunity to test my abilities. Our meeting time over the past month focused primarily on the leadership attributes necessary for disability practitioners and how that translates back to decision-making. The decision-making process is paramount to guiding several of the staff, myself included, who work with students identifying accommodations and the difficult situations invariably arising weekly, if not daily involving frequent consultation with the department director and often brought back to the group during weekly …show more content…
A shift in the legal landscape of disability law prompts an ongoing deeper discussion to examine fairness in the delivery of accommodations. The spring semester presented a change in implementing non-standard accommodations and raised the stakes of interactive dialogue with students and faculty and includes specific timelines for completing the process. Unfortunately, when measuring my success in this area—I did not meet the intended timeframe. For department consistency and maintaining the ethics of the process, adjustments to priorities will be addressed for future
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It is essential that all students have access to a quality education and an inclusive education system should meet their diverse needs. The Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development [DEECD] (2014) stipulates that education providers must make ‘reasonable adjustments’ to support students with disabilities to comply with the standard. Graduate teachers should also demonstrate an understanding of legislative requirements and be able to identify teaching strategies that support the involvement and learning of students with disabilities (AITSL, 2014). They should understand the importance of focusing on what a student with a disability can do and work with the student’s strengths. A graduate teacher should know what resources, agencies and assistive technologies are available to support the learning needs of a student with a disability.
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Leadership is a not only a necessary quality to have but I wish to display this quality in my future career as a Physician Assistant. Being a leader is required in order to succeed in the rural primary care field. Incorporating this leadership quality in my career as a Physician Assistant is important to me because I have displayed this quality through the classroom, athletics, volunteer work, etc and I wish to continue to displa...
‘“Now it’s my turn to make it better for generations that come after, which is why I’ve become, involved in disabilities issues”’ (Open University, 2016a).
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is one of the most significant laws in American History. Before the ADA was passed, employers were able to deny employment to a disabled worker, simply because he or she was disabled. With no other reason other than the person's physical disability, they were turned away or released from a job. The ADA gives civil rights protections to individuals with disabilities similar to those provided to individuals on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, age, and religion. The act guarantees equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities in public accommodations, employment, transportation, State and local government services, and telecommunications. The ADA not only opened the door for millions of Americans to get back into the workplace, it paved the road for new facilities in the workplace, new training programs, and created jobs designed for a disabled society (Frierson, 1990). This paper will discuss disabilities covered by the ADA, reasonable accommodations employers must take to accommodate individuals with disabilities, and the actions employers can take when considering applicants who have disabilities.
Departments such as the Disabilities Recourse Center (DRC) at Northeastern University are set up to provide these types of services to the school’s student population with disabilities. The DRC provides services to students with physical disabilities like hearing and sight impairment as well as neurological learning disabilities. The DRC is a cooperative entity that helps both the students and their professors in ensuring that the student receives the accommodations they require. It takes dedicated professionals to provide these services. One of the most dedicated staffers of the DRC is Dean Ruth Bork, the director of the DRC.
Ms. Geis feels that to be an effective leader one must demonstrate with a high level of confidence, “even if I’m unsure of myself, I have to be ready to stand by my decision and carry it out.” Although, she also stated a competent supervisor must also be able to accept when they are wrong. Ms. Geis provides supervision for 15 direct care workers in the programs and finds “That’s a lot of different viewpoints and perspectives to sort through.” Therefore, she finds difficult people are not easy to work with. From an administrate role, she states, “You can not let it consumes you and affect you negatively.” Ms. Geis feels that to be an effective manager when working with complex individuals one must learn how to use their strengths and adapt the work environment. “You find what they are really good at and place them in the best role that uses their strong points.”
The majority of students with disabilities should be in an inclusive setting. These students are generally placed based on the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE). Furthermore, the majority of these students are able to keep up academically with their peers, even
The global responses to disability have changed over the years. The acceptance and understanding of this condition has played a significant role in embracing disability into the society. Since the 1970s, there have been campaigns to sensitize the public about disability. This has led to the empowerment and has prompted large self-organizations by persons with disabilities. Historically, persons with disabilities have often been provided for through the same solutions that have led to their segregation. These include special schools or special residential institutions. Policies have now shifted from the ...
Setting goals is the most important thing you can do in your life. Without goal's you are going to have no direction, no ambition to be successful, no drive to stay in school, and trouble finding a career that will provide for you. Without these three things, achieving your goals is going to be one of the toughest tasks in the years to come.
Accommodations will help students achieve these academic goals, which can be instructional or environmental changes that help students to successfully understand and respond to the regular curriculum. These kinds of accommodations may be a change of seating in the classroom, sitting up front during story time or allowing more time on an exam. For example, a child who may have dyslexia needs to have an additional 20 minutes on exams, or have test questions and answers read to them aloud. These are accommodations made in order for the student to have the best chance of success. A student, who does not have a learning disability, doesn’t need those accommodations and would not necessarily benefit if they were given to
Writing this final essay for this course one is able to reflection on the knowledge one has gained since the beginning of the course. This course has been affective and the benefits are using the information immediately to correct mistakes and grow in the profession. After interviewing attorneys and director’s special in the education program the reality of how important following the regulations are important and must be followed. As a special educator one is more prepared and ready to provide a first rate education. Everyone who works with special needs students should be prepared and understand the law taking a class in Law and Litigation is recommended.
A person needs to achieve certain goals in one's life before you can call them successful. Success is to achieve goals, you have set. I have set certain goals I would like to achieve in my lifetime. Some of these goals are personal while others are professional. My professional goals in life are to find a good job that makes me happy, get a good education, find a job that makes enough money for me to support my family, and help people. Goals it is very important for me to receive a good education. Most job fields require a descent education. If I don't have an education I would not be able to function properly at the work place and I would not understand what to do. To maintain a good job that will make good money will require me to go thorough schooling or training and maybe even both. Education is the first and foremost way to become successful, because the job I will choose will need me go to school and maybe even beyond college. My happiness in what I do is also a goal for me I my life. There is no way someone can become successful if they are not happy with what they are doing. ...