When participants were asked to list things they would take back and use in their classes, programs, and/or schools, responses included the following:
- Encourage parents and students and other teachers to empower students with disabilities to learn about STEM and gain confidence in getting the help they need
- Use the great resources and materials distributed at the CBI
- Apply the universal design concept to instruction for all students
When asked how they will use the materials, responses included:
- Prepare my own presentation on this for Oregon Museum of Science of Industry (OMSI) volunteers and staff. Pass on the information to our technology staff to ensure our website and computer lab is accessible. I'll review our education programs to see if they can be upgraded to universal design, and reproduce the worksheets and information to be available for all OMSI staff and volunteers
- Increase the amount of visual, tactile, and auditory stimuli I use
- Write better instructions for labs
- Improve the format of my website
- Use the list of resources
- Increase inclusiveness in labs
- Implement new ideas in our labs
- Use the materials given by the Institute
- Share what I learned with my department
- Write a grant for technology
- Use technology options
- Use tactile ideas such as fabric, paint, and wikki sticks
- Make lab accommodations and use examples
- Apply for a minigrant
- Encourage students to advocate for themselves
- Invite some special education graduates to come back and talk to current students.
- Take back ideas to help a specific student.
- Share the materials with my school
- Use my new knowledge of grant options
- Use resources of AccessSTEM and DO-IT
- Give the resources to students
- Use the checklist of best practices for my own teaching
- Have groups check on another's progress before handing in work
- Use the Gak experiment
- Use the CSI fingerprinting assignment
- Make activities address multiple learning styles and capacities
- Do a presentation at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Aerospace Education Services Program
- Help teachers who I work with implement practices described when using NASA materials