Tested Studies for Laboratory Teaching (ABLE Proceedings)

Title:

Accessible Laboratory and Lecture Environments for Teaching Biology

Url:

http://www.ableweb.org/volumes/vol-37/v37reprint.php?ch=7

Author:

Peter Thew
William Glider
Christy Horn
Amin Makkowy

Author's Address:

University of Nebraska-Lincoln. School of Biological Sciences, NE
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Center for Instructional Innovation, NE

Email Address:

wglider1@unl.edu

Description: This workshop described a classroom development project that provides a fully inclusive and accessible
environment for all students including students with disabilities. Science curriculum has many highly visual and
interactive components that have traditionally created barriers to the full participation of disabled students. New
technologies have emerged in the teaching of biology in lecture and lab that can assist in creating learning spaces that will enhance student-teacher and student-student interaction and support multiple modes of learning. We described a number of accommodation strategies that we have developed over the last ten years to enhance learning
for all disability groups focusing on the use of technology as a means to accommodate individual learning
challenges.

Keywords:

accessible laboratory
laboratory accommodation

Topic:

Teaching Tools and Techniques

BEN Subject/Discipline Taxonomy:

Teaching Tools and Techniques

Learning Resource Type:

Teaching strategies & guidelines (DCMI Type Vocabulary)

Context:

Undergraduate lower division 13-14
Undergraduate upper division 15-16

Format:

pdf