SciTrain: Science, Math and Technology for All

摘要佐治亚理工学院辅助技术和环境获取中心（CATEA）和科学、数学和计算综合教育中心（CEISMC）提议与科布县学校系统（Cobb County School System）合作创建SciTrain，这是一个多方面的项目，旨在提高高中科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）教师的能力。在CATEA和CEISMC成功开展研究和项目的基础上，它将使用多种评估来确定教师最重要的需求，并将重点放在教师对项目成功的评估上。SciTrain的目标是为学生创造更高效的教师和更强大的学习体验。SciTrain将为高中教育工作者创建基于网络的课程，指导他们为残疾学生创建STEM课程。在线课程将展示解决无障碍问题的方法，并将培训教师为住宿提出自己的想法和解决方案。他们将提供关于创建改编课程和实验室的指导。每门课程都将由适合教师需求的独立模块组成，每个模块都解决无障碍STEM教育中的一个基本问题。教师将能够学习个别模块或完成继续教育单元（ceu）和专业学习单元（PLUs）的整个课程。其结果将是改善高中学生的STEM教育。SciTrain将与乔治亚州科布县的高中教师密切合作，确保对其项目成果进行重点研究和评估。课程将在向全国观众发布之前由这些教师进行测试。科布县的教师还将参与正在进行的项目结果评估，作为SciTrain模式实际运行的试验台。拟议的项目对于扩展有关方法和实践的知识，以确保所有学生充分参与STEM教育至关重要。SciTrain将把通用设计实践与几个研究/活动领域结合起来，包括：科学教学法、辅助技术、人机交互、远程学习和残疾研究。该项目将利用乔治亚理工学院和合作机构广泛的先前和正在进行的研究。更广泛的影响拟议的计划对于在教师教育中经常被忽视的领域为教师提供教育至关重要。通过改进教育实践，它将提高残疾学生获得STEM教育的机会，并改善这些学生对STEM教育和职业的参与。改善STEM教育将扩大残疾学生的参与，目前残疾学生是STEM教育中代表性不足的群体。SciTrain还将通过提供广泛的在线资源来加强研究和教育的基础设施，任何人都可以在任何地方使用这些资源来解决STEM教育的无障碍问题。

AbstractThe Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access (CATEA) and the Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC) at Georgia Tech propose an alliance with the Cobb County School System to create SciTrain, a multi-faceted project to enhance the capacities of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) teachers in high schools. Building upon successful research and programs conducted by CATEA and CEISMC, it will use multiple evaluations to determine the most important needs of teachers and focus upon teacher evaluations of project success. SciTrain's goal is to create more effective teachers and more powerful learning experiences for students.SciTrain will create Web-based courses for high school educators to instruct them in the creation of STEM coursework for students with disabilities. The online courses will demonstrate methods for approaching access problems and will train teachers to generate their own ideas and solutions for accommodations. They will provide instruction on the creation of both adapted curricula and labs. Each course will be composed of discrete modules tailored to the needs of teachers, eachaddressing a fundamental issue in accessible STEM education. Teachers will be able to study individual modules or complete entire courses for continuing education units (CEUs) and professional learning units (PLUs). The result will be improved STEM education for high school students.SciTrain will work closely with Cobb County, Georgia high school instructors to ensure focused research and evaluation of its project results. Courses will be tested with these teachers prior to release to a national audience. Cobb County teachers will also participate in ongoing evaluation of project results, serving as a test-bed for the SciTrain model in action.Intellectual MeritThe proposed program is vital to expanding knowledge about methods and practices to ensure the full inclusion of all students in STEM education. SciTrain will unite universal design practices with several fields of study/activity, including: science pedagogy, assistive technology, human-computer interaction, distance learning and disability studies. The project will leverage extensive prior and ongoing research at Georgia Tech and partner institutions.Broader ImpactThe proposed program is vital in providing education for teachers in an area often neglected in their educations. Through improved educational practices, it will enhance accessibility of STEM education for students with disabilities, as well as improving participation in STEM education and careers for these students. Improved STEM education will broaden the participation of students with disabilities currently an underrepresented group in STEM education. SciTrain will also enhance the infrastructure for research and education by providing extensive online resources that can be used by anyone, anywhere to address accessible STEM education.