Collaborative Research: GP-IN: GLOBE Weather Pathways for Students with Disabilities

合作研究：GP-IN：残疾学生的 GLOBE 天气路径

• 批准号: 2229352
• 负责人: David Hurd
• 金额: $ 4.16万
• 依托单位: PENNSYLVANIA WESTERN UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-10-01 至 2025-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2229352&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; GP; GLOBE; Weather

This project will support educators in learning effective practices for adapting STEM learning materials for students with disabilities (i.e., Deaf/hard of hearing, blind/low vision, mobility) through workshops and by adapting lessons from a weather curriculum. A cohort of local geoscience learning professionals, science teachers and teachers of special education in three locations will work in concert to assure quality and effective curricular adaptations. The research team will work together with evaluators to develop and study the approach based on the three interrelated project elements listed below. The weather unit that will be used has shown promising results with general education teachers but there has been little or no research on how to develop adaptations for students with disabilities using a standards-driven storyline unit of instruction. This project will help to address this gap by fully understanding how this approach can be used by educators over the course of three years. The project provides the opportunity for science teachers to work directly with STEM professionals in adaptations of a unit including career opportunities.All students deserve high quality science instruction including opportunities to understand possible career opportunities. In light of that, science teachers should be equipped with all of the necessary resources and techniques to meet the unique needs of their students with disabilities. However, many science teachers need further learning opportunities from experts who have experience with students with disabilities. This project will develop and test an approach to provide educators with the experiences, tools and abilities to adapt geoscience curricular resources to meet the needs of students with disabilities and articulate career pathways and opportunities in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) for them. By increasing access to STEM fields for scholars with disabilities and by improving the quality of resources available in STEM disciplines, more persons with disabilities may consider pursuing STEM careers. A challenge for many science educators is how to help students with disabilities envision geoscience concepts and a broader range of STEM career opportunities. This project will address this challenge by working directly with science educators to: 1) establish and support a team consisting of local STEM educators, content specialists (atmospheric sciences), special educators and person(s) with a disability working in STEM fields to support student career pathways; 2) provide workshops on a weather curriculum, a standards based unit in which students engage with weather concepts through studying interesting phenomena, and; 3) facilitate time for educators to work together to adapt materials for middle school students with physical disabilities.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目将通过研讨会和通过适应天气课程的教训来为教育者学习有效的学习有效实践，以适应残疾学生的STEM学习材料。当地的地球科学学习专业人员，科学教师和特殊教育教师在三个地点的同伙将共同努力，以确保质量和有效的课程适应。研究团队将根据下面列出的三个相互关联的项目元素来开发和研究该方法。将使用通识教育老师的天气单位显示出令人鼓舞的结果，但是对于如何使用标准驱动的故事情节教学单位为残疾学生开发适应性的研究很少或没有研究。该项目将通过充分了解三年的教育工作者如何使用这种方法来帮助解决这一差距。该项目为科学教师提供了与STEM专业人员合作的机会，以适应一个单位，包括职业机会。所有学生都应获得高质量的科学教学，包括了解可能的职业机会的机会。鉴于此，科学教师应配备所有必要的资源和技术，以满足残疾学生的独特需求。但是，许多科学老师需要从具有残疾学生经验的专家那里进行进一步的学习机会。该项目将开发和测试一种方法，以为教育工作者提供经验，工具和能力，以适应地球科学课程资源，以满足残疾学生的需求，并阐明科学，技术，工程，数学（STEM）的职业途径和机会。通过增加残疾学者进入STEM领域的机会，并通过提高STEM学科中可用的资源质量，更多的残疾人可能会考虑从事STEM职业。许多科学教育者的挑战是如何帮助残疾学生设想地球科学概念和更广泛的STEM职业机会。该项目将通过直接与科学教育者合作：1）建立和支持由当地STEM教育者，内容专家（大气科学），特殊教育工作者和人员组成的团队，在STEM领域工作以支持学生职业道路； 2）提供有关天气课程的研讨会，这是一个基于标准的单元，学生通过研究有趣的现象与天气概念互动，并且； 3）促进教育工作者共同努力为有身体残疾的中学学生改编材料。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准通过评估来支持的。