Staggered deadlines may be one of the most difficult accommodations to arrange.\u00a0 Staggered deadlines involve planning alternate submission dates for papers, projects, or exams when a student has conflicting due dates for these.\u00a0 The key part of staggered deadlines is the planning.\u00a0 As it says on the AEO website, \u201cStaggered deadlines are always established well in advance of the scheduled due date.\u201d\u00a0 It is the advanced planning of these deadlines that makes them \u201cstaggered deadlines\u201d rather than extensions.\u00a0 But what if you have a disability that makes it more difficult to plan? Professors aren\u2019t required to give a student extensions.\u00a0 In one student\u2019s experience, though, professors have been very accommodating when she was unable to plan a staggered deadline in advance and allowed extensions anyway.\u00a0 As you can see, this accommodation can get tricky.<\/p>\n
Another difficult aspect of this accommodation is setting the deadlines for your assignments.\u00a0 You want to make sure you provide yourself enough time to get the assignment completed to the best of your ability, but you don\u2019t want to appear to your professor as if you are trying to buy unnecessary time.\u00a0 This is why I would recommend talking to one of AEO\u2019s academic coaches about your proposed deadlines before meeting with your professor.<\/p>\n
In regards to staggered deadlines, one professor said, \u201cBelinda [former AEO director] always used to say [staggered deadlines aren\u2019t] extensions and should be worked out in advance.\u00a0 But my experience in working with students who have that as an accommodation is that it isn\u2019t always possible to work it out in advance, because a student\u2019s schedule of academic work is like a Chinese puzzle box- there\u2019s so many parts and if one moves- if a professor puts off an assignment or changes an assignment, then that affects everything else.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Staggered deadlines may be one of the most difficult accommodations to arrange.\u00a0 Staggered deadlines involve planning alternate submission dates for papers, projects, or exams when a student has conflicting due dates for these.\u00a0 The key part of staggered deadlines is … Continue reading