Several scholarships to colleges and universities in this year’s efforts to raise awareness of K-12 levels. The federal government, with private foundations, colleges and universities is in the form of grants, interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects and to promote improved special education provided at primary school. Researchers are even working in a facility, a mobile application that can help people with autism to develop.
An Institution of Technology, Rochester, New York, for example, has a $ 420,000 grant from the Toyota Foundation made available. Providing the grant money available in the past three years is designed to help College of Engineering at the Institute to an interactive tutorial for teaching STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects develop the K-12 levels. The appropriate training in mathematics and science, as it is called, it is with the students from fifth to 12th Class and then start with an online component, expand on an announcement of the proposed institute.
In Athens, Georgia, was a university $ 1.5 million National Science Foundation grant for use as in the fields of STEM education given. This grant was provided to a project that access to higher education for students with disabilities and STEM to better ensure their success with them and could improve in November, according to the university. Through an alliance five years Georgia Accessibility STEM that the university would provide grant money, the students would be provided from high school through graduate level High-tech services such as social networks are available and “virtual” mentor and teacher preparation and more, said the announcement.
Ji Shen, an education researcher at the University also awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation – a 610th for $ 248 The grant money awarded was, as Shen is designed to study a method of science instruction for K-12. Shen, an assistant professor of mathematics and college science education department plans to study the method of modeling based instruction known.
The education of students with disabilities is the focus of a $ 1.2 million Department of Education grant to a U.S. University of Washington in Washington, DC The grant money made available by the Ministry of Education Office of Special Education Programs, it is known from a program as use “innovation for babies, toddlers and preschoolers.” The program prepares students for the said in special education in Washington, DC, Virginia and Maryland work, an area where autism has increased, an announcement in October of the university.
An additional $ 1,200,000, one from the Institute of Education Sciences at the University of Georgia provided should be used to develop an application for mobile communication devices. The “soft” as iSkills known to help people with autism and other disabilities in their daily tasks, according to a statement from the college.iSkills was developed to help these people to work, to live independently and more, said the press release by the University.
The Department of Education and educational researchers in Georgia has granted a subsidy of $ 2,900,000 to the impact that has a method of teaching in the elementary school for English learners to explore university students. The model, called the “teaching talk” is designed to improve the interaction between the students and their classmates, students and their teachers. Other teaching methods include a “graveyard” model, where students hear the teacher, and a “cooperative learning” model, where students learn from each other and the teacher.
A University of Georgia researchers suspect that the educational conversation could reach Latinos, especially the students who come from poverty and prone late in the studies of high school to drop out of school. The study is in the four years of high poverty schools. The results must be measured on at least a portion of standardized tests.
