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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Professor here and I have kids like this often.

Unfortunately I teach in a major where attendance, follow-through on deadlines, and consistency are critical to success (typically the semester cadence is cumulative in a project based way), so ghosting or disengagement is almost always met with academic disaster.

The choice of major is IMPORTANT. For example: nursing or architecture or comp sci would be a disaster for the reasons stated above. But there may be others that are a much better fit such as (guessing) communications or test-based subjects. If you are able to connect with a community that can tell you what kids like your daughter found success in, that would be great.

I would also say that a support specialist (if you can hire outside of school) that would hold weekly meetings with her might help. Like a therapist but for organization.

Finally, if traditional college isn't for her, it isn't for her. Plenty of vocational options that are respectable, and time off to focus on something else before considering school may also be a good option.

Good luck![/quote]

Interesting take, given that nursing and IT/computers are often mentioned as great careers.

I’m wondering, professor, what field you teach in?

And how do you view your responsibilities in structuring your class. I have seen some academic debate on Twitter discussing obligations to create syllabi, grades and class structure in a way that scaffolds EF for the entire class, as an obligation of the profession to make acedmia accessible to all with disabilities.

In the project-based college classes (think paper-writing, presentations, building architectural models), a scaffold would involve taking the major project, for example, a paper, and breaking down the process and assigning internal deadlines and grades. So a grade for brainstorming topics, evaluating available research, selecting a thesis topic, doing the research, making an outline, turning in a rough draft, and final draft, all with feedback and meetings with prof along the way and room for individual adjustment. Many profs will also drop some grades to allow for imperfections.

It seems like this is becoming more common after COVID, which revealed some students struggling with illness, family or financial issues which were once thought by professors to be thought of as “not my problem, I’ll make no allowances”. [/quote]

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