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Good Teaching Practices for Students with Disabilities
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Practicing some of the following principles of grading and instruction can help you adapt more easily to the needs of a student with a disability in your classroom. Please feel free to submit comments or more of your own ideas on teaching techniques that make accessible instruction easier.
- Timed Exams
- Ask yourself what the learning goals are in having a timed exam. It's obvious that we have practical reasons for setting time limits for exams. We don't want to be stuck sitting and waiting in a classroom for five hours while students finish their work! (Usually there is a point long before five hours has passed where the student can no longer make any improvements to their peformance in any case.) On the other hand, by creating exams that are very long or difficult to finish within a certain time limit, instructors might begin testing a student's exam taking ability rather than their mastery of the content. Taking time out of the equation in an exam situation can improve your exam's ability to test your student's mastery of content as well as make your exam more accessible to students with disabilities.
- Using PowerPoint Slides or Overheads to Provide Lecture Notes
- Simply using overhead transparencies and an overhead projector instead of the chalkboard for your lectures can make it much easier for you to keep notes of your lectures and make them available to students. The content on your transparencies can be typed up and placed on reserve for students to copy. This service can be extremely beneficial for students wiht disabilities who cannot take effective or thorough notes on their own due to the effects of their disabilty.
Many instructors enjoy using the PowerPoint software to organize their lectures. This program can take the overhead slides you create and print them as class notes that can be placed on reserve for students to copy. Instructors who use the program PowerPoint to prepare their overhead slides and lectures have found it extremely easy to transfer these slides up to their web pages.To learn how to use PowerPoint, attend one of the 50 minute drop-in Teaching and Technology workshops offered by UWired.
The UWired Center for Teaching, Learning & Technology has helped many instructors put their course notes and content up on the World Wide Web. Contact them for even more ideas on how you can use technology to effectively capture the information covered in your course and distribute it to students.
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