ShaRonda Grimball

In this section I learned some great questions that students should ask during an interview like career growth projection, daily duties and responsibitlities as well as how the interviewer like their position and company. 

What was most surprising about this section is the disparities in employment rates amongst people with disabilities. Especially in comparison to able bodied people. The number of disabled unemployed people in the U.S. is about double the rate of non disabled people. Which shows that we still have a long way to go in terms of having access and leveling the playing field for people who have a disability. 

One thing that I took away from this lesson is the idea of showing an employer how a disability could be used as an advantage in the work place that could help the overall environment of the organization. I'm sure this out of the box thinking has led to positive outcomes for people with disabilities. 

In this lesson I learned that in order to make accommodations the employee must be qualified for the position, the accommodation can't cause an undue burden on the employer, and it can't require the employer to make major reallocations of duties and responsibilities.

I learned that students with disabilities just want to be treated like everyone else so there's no need to tip toe around the obvious and its okay to offer assistance once a student has indicated they have a disability. 

This module helped me gain a better understanding of what the disability act ensures for those with disabilities in terms of their education. The examples in the texts showed me the difference in reasonable accommodations that give students equal access to their education verses accommodations that would just help a student succeed, which is not mandated by the constitution. 

I learned students with disability don't necessarily have the right to certain things. However, the law grants them equal opportunity to learning opportunities and it is the school's responsibility to ensure that, within reason, the student is accommodated so that they can fairly access the same learning opportunities as everyone else. 

When teaching an online course it is important to create guidelines so that the content students post are on topic, moves the conversation forward, and neither too long or too short. 

I learned in this module that it is important to set expectations for digital communication. One may assume that students would know proper netiquette but setting a standard before communication begins, can prevent break downs in communication. 

The importance of assessing communication tools and their effectiveness in the classroom. I think its very easy to put a system in place and assume everyone is satisfied with it. So stopping to make sure students feel the tools being used are helpful and not hindering them is very important.