Timeline for Learning Disabled Students and Untenable Instructor Workloads
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| Sep 4, 2021 at 17:33 | answer | added | Daniel R. Collins | timeline score: 5 | |
| Sep 4, 2021 at 16:35 | comment | added | Daniel R. Collins | Exactly what kind of extra support is your colleague giving? Is it just extra instruction in the material? | |
| Sep 4, 2021 at 12:45 | comment | added | Kimball | Why does having 10-20 LD students add much more time than having 2-3? Is it because she needs to make different accommodations for different students? Or that the accommodations cannot somehow be done "in batch"? | |
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| Sep 3, 2021 at 21:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/1433897620745949202 | ||
| Sep 3, 2021 at 17:23 | answer | added | Ian Sudbery | timeline score: 5 | |
| Sep 3, 2021 at 17:14 | comment | added | Ian Sudbery | What sort of learning disability are we talking here? Are we talking "mainstream" problems, such as dyslexia, dyspraxia, ADHD, or rarer, more complex divergencies? | |
| Sep 3, 2021 at 15:26 | answer | added | Elizabeth Henning | timeline score: 12 | |
| Sep 3, 2021 at 15:16 | comment | added | user128581 | '10 to 20 learning disabled students choosing her class' In what size class overall? 10-20 students with (diagnosed, registered with the university) learning disabilities in a class of 150 wouldn't be particularly unusual; 10-20 in a class of 30 would. | |
| Sep 3, 2021 at 9:16 | comment | added | xLeitix | One small comment - it's probably unsurprising that pushing the counsellors did not work. Their job is not to manage faculty workload, it's to best advise their students. If you ask them to purposefully direct some students to other teachers who they know will not support these students well I can see why they would push back. This is a problem for teaching administration to solve, not for the counsellors. | |
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| Sep 3, 2021 at 5:33 | comment | added | B flat | @ElizabethHenning I reached out to them today and was directed to speak with our department chair. I believe the instructor tried this route already, but it can't hurt to try again and document it. Thank you! No union membership. | |
| Sep 3, 2021 at 5:08 | answer | added | Qwe | timeline score: -3 | |
| Sep 3, 2021 at 2:08 | answer | added | nick012000 | timeline score: -5 | |
| Sep 3, 2021 at 1:59 | comment | added | Elizabeth Henning | Also, if you're in CA, is this a union shop? | |
| Sep 3, 2021 at 1:41 | comment | added | Elizabeth Henning | What does the college's disability services office say? Do they know about this? They might be able to exert more leverage to reallocate resources. | |
| Sep 3, 2021 at 0:29 | answer | added | Wolfgang Bangerth | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 2, 2021 at 22:56 | answer | added | Anonymous Physicist | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 2, 2021 at 22:46 | comment | added | B flat | @Arno Yes, exactly. | |
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| Sep 2, 2021 at 22:44 | comment | added | Arno | @Bflat Oh, then I had misunderstood. So the question then is: How do you make your administration do their job, which is supporting and enabling the teaching staff to deliver good quality teaching without working themselves to death. | |
| Sep 2, 2021 at 22:39 | comment | added | B flat | @Arno She is full-timer and not hourly and does not want more pay. This an over work problem that has become a health issue. The college is aware and not offering her assistance. I know this person well. They need help. The college claims it is is not their responsibly to help her. | |
| Sep 2, 2021 at 22:38 | comment | added | Bryan Krause♦ | Probably the best bet would be for the students with disabilities to sue the college if the college is not providing sufficient resources, but this seems like a legal advice situation that isn't well-supported here. I'm not a lawyer but I doubt very much that the ADA puts the responsibility on individual instructors to carry all of the weight for their institution in compliance. | |
| Sep 2, 2021 at 22:30 | comment | added | Arno | @Buffy My understanding is that OP and their colleagues are paid hourly; and I assume that doing some more work than their current contract hours is feasible. But then that should be paid, too. Beyond that, your points are spot-on. | |
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| Sep 2, 2021 at 22:27 | comment | added | Buffy | I don't think it is a question of pay as @Arno suggests, but one of support. Perhaps she needs a team. Perhaps the entire faculty needs to organize the courses so that faculty have more or less balanced workloads and students get their needs met. Team teaching, or something like it. | |
| Sep 2, 2021 at 22:22 | comment | added | B flat | @Arno Of course. Thank you for pointing that out. However, I should have mentioned that we've already fully explored a) and b). There is no administrative support in in either area. This is why I am asking this question above. It is a last resort. | |
| Sep 2, 2021 at 22:18 | comment | added | Arno | You're thinking about the wrong end of the problem. The correct end is your college administration, who needs to a) pay you and your colleagues for the reasonable work you do; and b) resource enough additional support to make the workload managable. | |
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