Title and acronym
STEAM in the secondary school with no barriers for blind and visually impaired pupils (SBVI)
Programme & call
ERASMUS+KA2. Associations for cooperation
Reference
2021-1-ES01-KA220-SCH-000024569
Principal Investigator
Project Coordinator
Universidad de Burgos
Partners
- Universidad de Burgos (España/Spain)
- IES TEGUISE (España/Spain)
- SCOALA GIMNAZIALA SPECIALA PENTRU DEFICIENTI DE VEDERE (Rumania/Romania)
- drzavno uciliste za deca i mladi so osteten vid Dimitar Vlahov,(República de Macedonia del Norte/The Republic of North Macedonia)
- School for visually impaired pupils Veljko Ramadanovic (Serbia/ Serbia)
Global budget of the project
185.426,00 €
Financial contribution of the European Commission
185.426,00 €
UBU´s Budget
81.300,00 €
EC contribution
13.925,00 €
Project duration
24 months (01/11/2021 -30/10/2023)
Contact
Web
In progres
Description
The project STEAM in the secondary school with no barriers for blind and visually impaired pupils, has been created to generate in Spanish schools, including the partner university, inclusive classrooms with a diversity of students with different profiles, especially students with visual impairments. The school partnership includes three schools specialized in this student profile, the collaboration and exchange of practices will serve 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 impairments.
The centers specialized in students with visual impairments, the partner university, the Canary Islands high school with students with various disabilities, including severe disability profiles, and the coordinating center in Burgos will generate classrooms of full integration, with students of diverse profiles, working in STEAM subjects in a cooperative system and seeking a full integration of all students, working on equal opportunities without differentiating students by abilities, religion, sexual identity or gender.
Within the specific needs for STEAM material for visually impaired students, the project will address the following needs;
1.- Generation of material with technical notation in audio and Braille format and to be able to include it in conventional schools.
Access to visual resources. To develop online and public formats accessible to visually impaired students 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 among students with and without disabilities.
5.- Creating teaching methods for STEAM subjects and being able to develop activities in integrated classrooms.
6.- Real experimentation in integrated classrooms and generation of teaching strategies, highlighting in this the need for teacher training to equip teachers to overcome these problems.
There is also a need to generate a specialized training for undergraduate and master students in teaching within the profile of students with visual impairments, this project addresses this training through specialized partners and the O.N.C.E., collaborating entity.