Workshops

EAST provides professional development workshops to  faculty on a range of topics that increase educators' abilities to support students with disabilities. Sample topics include:

•Universal Design

•Strategies for Improved Access to Science, Technology, and Mathematics

•Accommodations for Ensuring that Students with Disabilities More Actively Participate in Fieldwork Common to the Biological and Earth Sciences

•Transition of Students to College, Employment, and Community

•Integrating Learning Technologies that Support all Students

•Accessible Web Sites

If you are interested in being a part of these workshops or want more information call or email Lynn Lovewell at (207) 780-5449. 

Universal Design

Universally designed teaching practices and strategies, coupled with technology infused curricula, can help all students, particularly those with disabilities, meet the Maine Learning Results and the requirements of the federal "No Child Left Behind Act."

Universal design addresses the needs of all learners through flexible, usable, and accessible learning tools; collaborative and interactive learning opportunities; and learner-centered instruction, curriculum, and assessment. By implementing the UDL framework, the need to retrofit the curriculum or make accommodations for individual learners is minimized.

In the universal design framework, technology:

•Allows physical access to electronic and information technology

•Facilitates the social construction of knowledge

•Provides multiple means of assessment of and for learning