Back to search

STEAM in the secondary school with no barriers for blind and visually impaired pupils

2021-1-ES01-KA220-SCH-0000245692021Cooperation partnerships in school educationfinalized
Countries: ES|RO|MK|RS · Grant: €185,426
Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)Disabilities

Objectives

1.- Generation of material with technical notation in audio and Braille format and its inclusion in conventional schools. Access to visual resources. Development of adapted materials for students with various disabilities in the coordinating school and in the Spanish University. 2.- To develop online formats and accessible audiences for students with visual impairment in STEAM subjects in an alternative format to the usual one. 3.- Development of oral explanations for the understanding of visual concepts, Experimenting without vision: some aspects of participation in classroom activities, inclusive experiments between students with and without disabilities. 4.- Creation of didactic methods for STEAM subjects and to be able to develop activities in visual supports. 5.- Real experimentation in integrated classrooms and generation of didactic strategies, highlighting the need for teacher training to enable teachers to overcome these problems. Generate specialized training for undergraduate and master's degree students in teaching within the profile of students with visual impairment. To develop through the Spanish University international dissemination activities.

Background

The project has been created to generate inclusive classrooms in Spanish educational centers, including the partner university, with a diversity of students with different profiles, especially students with visual impairment. The school partnership includes three centers specialized in this profile of students, the collaboration and exchange of practices has served to generate experiential classrooms within technical subjects such as science, technology, engineering, mathematics and arts (STEAM), subjects that have often been cited as difficult for students with visual impairment. The centers specializing in students with visual impairment, the partner university, the Canary Islands high school with students with diverse disabilities, including severely disabled profiles, and the coordinating center in Burgos have generated full integration classrooms, with students of diverse profiles, working in STEAM subjects and seeking full integration of all students, working on equal opportunities without differentiating students. The new educational law in Spain integrates students without differentiating them by their physical disabilities, which obliges Spanish centers and teachers to prepare for this student profile.

Project partners (6)