Week 2 Overview

Integrating Faculty and Staff Roles (February 29 - March 6)

In Week 2, you will learn how you can help reduce barriers faced by students with disabilities. You will learn the difference between proactive course design and making accommodations. You will also analyze what individual and group efforts are necessary to create barrier-free learning environments given the complexity of and overlap between faculty and staff roles.

Please watch the introduction video for this week (0:52).

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Course Competency

Articulate faculty and staff roles in reducing barriers for students with disabilities.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this week participants will be able to:

• Identify faculty and staff roles in proactive course design.
• Identify faculty and staff roles in responding to an individual student's need for accommodations.

Learning Activities

• Readings
• Videos
• Self-check quiz
• Discussion

Assessment

As part of your peer review assignment you will be examining a scenario that includes some accessibility and accommodation concerns in order to identify who on your campus needs to come to together to improve the learning experience for the student.

Once you submit your assignment, you will review two of your peers assignments. Please review the section again on how Peer Review Assignments work. Successfully completing this assessment with an average of 80% or higher from your peers will enable you to earn the Week 2 Faculty and Staff Roles badge.

Week 2 peer assignment due by March 6 by 11:59 PM EST.

Peer reviews of 2 students work due one week later - March 13 by 11:59 PM EST.

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