HR: 1340h
AN: ED43B-0847    [Abstracts]
TI: Sharing Ideas: Making Earth and Space Science Accessible
AU: * Runyon, C J
EM: runyonc@cofc.edu
AF: SERCH, College of Charleston 81 St. Phillip Street, Charleston, SC 29424 United States
AU: Guimond, K
EM: serch@cofc.edu
AF: SERCH, College of Charleston 81 St. Phillip Street, Charleston, SC 29424 United States
AU: Atkinson, C
EM: atkinsonc@cofc.edu
AF: SERCH, College of Charleston 81 St. Phillip Street, Charleston, SC 29424 United States
AB: There are nearly six million K-12 students with some form of disability in the U.S. and the majority of them are required to achieve the same academic levels as their non-impaired peers. Historically, students with disabilities have experienced difficulties in fully accessing and participating in middle school and high school science programs. With the passage of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act and increasing focus on reading and math performance, many students with exceptional needs are now being taught science by mainstream science teachers, who have little to no training on how to work with students with exceptional needs. For the past 5 years, SERCH has engaged in organizing and hosting a series of Exceptional Space Science Materials for Exceptional Students Workshops (ENWS) focused on educating students with special needs about the space sciences. Each workshop has focused on a different aspect of formal and informal education and working with the various special needs. In all of these workshops, participants experience what a person or student with special needs might encounter when working through educational activities or exhibits by experiencing it first-hand. In addition to making many of NASA's education materials accessible for all learners, a top-ten list of "best practices" has been compiled by the professional educators as a result of our working together for five years and their formal and informal educational experiences.
UR: http://serch.cofc.edu/special
DE: 0805 Elementary and secondary education
DE: 0815 Informal education
DE: 0840 Evaluation and assessment
DE: 0855 Diversity
DE: 5499 General or miscellaneous
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005