Science For All
The goals of the workshop were to provide participants with:
- An understanding that students with disabilities can be included and can succeed as learners in inquiry-based science, if they have appropriate support
- Images of the ways in which technology, media, and materials can support students and enhance student learning
- Strategies for adapting and modifying the curriculum to meet curriculum goals and student needs
- An understanding of the value of collaboration among science, technology, and special education practitioners, and some tools and strategies for fostering this collaboration
- Deeper thinking about organizational issues that impact on curriculum innovation
- Specific information about resources related to science, curriculum, instruction, assessment, hardware, and software
Each week included:
- Small-group discussions: Small groups of participants engaged in focused discussion around a problem or activity.
- Large-group discussion: All participants and faculty responded to provocative text.
- Access to resources: An area set aside for resources that included an interactive "sharing table."
During the fourth week, participants answered a survey about teaching science to students with disabilities in their own schools. The Survey results were posted prior to the final week of the workshop.
