1. Attending Professional Development Sessions
Teach Access Fellows are expected to fully participate in the year-long professional development program, which prepares educators to teach accessibility concepts and skills to their students. Fellows attend 12 live Zoom sessions, participate in follow-up support sessions, and complete activities between sessions, such as reviewing resources and developing instructional materials.
2. Creating Curricular Materials to Teach Accessibility
As a key program requirement, each Fellow will create at least three connected curricular materials, such as a discussion prompt, assignment, and learning activity, to teach accessibility concepts and skills in at least one of their courses. The materials created by Fellows will be added to the Teach Access Curriculum Repository, where they will be publicly available under a Creative Commons license that allows others to reuse and adapt them with proper attribution. Throughout the program, Teach Access provides office hours and support sessions to help Fellows develop their materials, prepare to teach accessibility, address challenges, and refine their approach based on their experience.
3. Implementing the created materials in their courses
Fellows will use the materials they create to teach accessibility concepts and skills to their students. They will also give students a survey provided by Teach Access to learn about their experience and what they learned. At the end of the program, Fellows will submit a case study describing what they taught, how they used the materials, what they learned from student feedback, and how well their approach worked. Teach Access will provide a template and resources to guide Fellows through this process.
