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Special Needs - 1- Accommodations in an Online Environment

Special Needs - 1- Accommodations in an Online Environment

 Reflect on your experiences with your students. Think of a situation in which online education may have been a preferable option for one of your special needs students or a student with an extenuating circumstance. If you do not have an example of a situation you have had as an educator, you may want to extend your thinking to your own experiences as a student, your own child’s experience, or choose a specific disability or special needs population you learned about earlier in this course.

 I have been teaching online now for over 10 years.  Over this time I have taught many students in unique circumstances.  For example, one student was a competitive diver, so good that she was traveling to Russia to compete in the junior Olympics.  I also taught a girl who played tennis in a similar situation.  Each was fully enrolled as an online student and knew the importance of enrolling on the 18 week schedule for most flexibility.  Both were very communicative with me and that was crucial to their success.  I have had other students with social phobia and panic disorders.  The online environment has loosened the pressure of a four-walled classroom with the looks from students and constant fear of messing up.  In the online environment these students have been able to be themselves (as much as they can) with truly learn without fear holding them back.  

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