Learning Goals

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Journal 1

Learning Goals The established three goals for my practicum were coordinated with my mentor Joan Green, Director of Accessibility Resource Center (ARC) to be accomplished during the 2017 spring semester along with feedback from Professor Chavez.
• Goal 1. Gained knowledge in legal and procedural processes in the area of disability services, is a specialized skill set and critical to leadership development. Meeting weekly with select staff often include discussion around problem solving difficult and complex situations where university policy, department practice and legal procedures intersect with a student’s needs and/or requests for accommodation(s). A webinar training was attended titled Student Responsibility New Rules of Engagement. …show more content…

My leadership mentor embodies this combination from over 2 decades of experience in disability services particularly in higher education. Leaders earn Re-inventing myself in this industry specialization without years of preparation, is certainly a challenge and lacks the benefit of the same learning curve. I have asked myself if I’m up for the challenge to grow into a leadership role in ARC. This is not a new insight, but in this first month of examining the department and services from the director’s viewpoint rather than staff has been an eye-opening experience. How to fast-track the necessary range of knowledge to prepare for a future leadership role presents a unique opportunity to test my abilities. Our meeting time over the past month focused primarily on the leadership attributes necessary for disability practitioners and how that translates back to decision-making. The decision-making process is paramount to guiding several of the staff, myself included, who work with students identifying accommodations and the difficult situations invariably arising weekly, if not daily involving frequent consultation with the department director and often brought back to the group during weekly …show more content…

A shift in the legal landscape of disability law prompts an ongoing deeper discussion to examine fairness in the delivery of accommodations. The spring semester presented a change in implementing non-standard accommodations and raised the stakes of interactive dialogue with students and faculty and includes specific timelines for completing the process. Unfortunately, when measuring my success in this area—I did not meet the intended timeframe. For department consistency and maintaining the ethics of the process, adjustments to priorities will be addressed for future

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