Strengthening Educators’ Practices for Engaging and Empowering Students with Disabilities and Difficulties as Mathematics Learners
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Students with disabilities and difficulties experience pervasive challenges in mathematics and exit the STEM pipeline early in their lives, significantly narrowing their future academic and career options. As a result, the potential contributions these individuals bring to mathematics and to STEM fields more generally may never be recovered. Addressing this issue requires that educators move from a deficit-model of disabilities to asset-based approaches that engage and empower students in learning significant mathematics.
To support educators in building these approaches, knowledge, and beliefs, our projects have created equity-focused professional development programs for different audiences (general educators, mathematics teachers, special educators, and paraeducators) and grade levels. In this session, we will discuss rich examples of our work, cross-cutting themes across projects, and take-away applications. Join us to learn more!
Panelists: Amy Brodesky, Jessica Hunt, and Judy Storeyga
June 4, 1:00-2:00pm ET
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