SciTrain: Science, Math and Technology for All

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结盟，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进行的成功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，并专注于教师对项目成功的评估。本培训的目标是为学生创造更有效的教师和更强大的学习体验。本培训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交通问题的方法，并将培训教师提出自己的住宿想法和解决方案。他们将就调整后的课程和实验室的创建提供指导。每门课程将由针对教师需求量身定做的不同模块组成，每个模块都将解决无障碍STEM教育中的一个基本问题。教师将能够学习持续教育单元(CEU)和专业学习单元(PLUS)的个别模块或完成整个课程。本项目将与佐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。在向全国观众发布课程之前，将与这些教师一起测试课程。科布县的教师还将参与对项目结果的持续评估，作为本培训模式实际运作的试验台。智力价值拟议的计划对于扩大有关方法和实践的知识至关重要，以确保所有学生完全纳入STEM教育。SciTrain将把通用设计实践与几个研究/活动领域结合起来，包括：科学教育学、辅助技术、人机交互、远程学习和残疾研究。该项目将利用佐治亚理工学院和合作伙伴机构先前和正在进行的广泛研究。布罗德影响拟议中的计划对于为教师提供教育至关重要，该领域经常被他们的教育忽视。通过改进教育实践，它将提高残疾学生接受STEM教育的机会，并改善这些学生参与STEM教育和就业的情况。改进STEM教育将扩大残疾学生参与STEM教育的范围，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增强研究和教育的基础设施，任何人、任何地方都可以使用这些资源来解决可获得的STEM教育问题。

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.