As a long-time instructor, it is always good to be reminded of the basics. I particularly enjoyed the refresher about students with learning disabilities. The idea of putting information into a text box makes sense in helping students feel less overwhelmed by the amount of information on a page. This is also a good strategy for students who do not have learning disabilities but may simply have difficulty staying focused.

I look forward to taking that module.  Having a child and a grandchild of learning disabilities I have some knowledge of the problems and solutions but it's always great to get other perspectives.  My concern currently are students who are ESL.  I have five will came in at the same time and their oral communication skills in English are not bad however, their written skills are atrocious.  It also makes the test taking the challenge for them.  I've been tempted to see if I can find an organization run business they can translate my tests into whether Turkish or Russian to get a little bit more accurate view of what they really now.  At times I wonder whether it's not that they don't know the material but more they had difficulty understanding the question because of language difficulties.  Their hands on skills are good to very good but it is the written a component that is really causing some problems and made and away set them up for failure when they get out into the core field unless they work for an employer who speaks Turkish and/or  Russian.

I'm looking for some way that I can really evaluate the students fairly on their academic knowledge.  I'm truly at a loss as to how to help them be successful in their new career.