Lisa Carlo

While I agree with Sean that the challenge of facilitating a class of diverse students, especially ones with disabilties, can be difficult, I find that understanding what the disabilties are and how to reach each student can be key to successful classroom learning/teaching. I am lucky to teach (and work) at a college that has an academic learning specialist that works with these students, faculty, and staff to support the students with learning disabilities (we call them "differences" rather than "disabilities" to further indicate the potential rather than deficit). The specialist works individually with the student and faculty to even out the classroom… >>>