Aida Koci , JFDP 2003 - 2004, University of Kansas, from Macedonia, and her colleagues put on a meaningful seminar for students in the course, "Needs Analysis and Course Design." The students, all of whom plan to be future educators, heard from two disabled students and experts on education for disabled students. Afterward, they were asked to interview teachers in their own communities about their experiences with disabled students. Students organized the data from their interviews, combined it with the information they learned at the seminar, and used their newly found knowledge to design improvements to the existing educational infrastructure, and to incorporate those designs into a pamphlet that will be distributed to school directors and University faculty. Koci was the project leader for this event.
Meetings with the impaired students
There mainly four objectives in regularly meeting the students before the first class:
- describing the project, how they could participate, and getting their approval;
- preparing with them what they were going to say
- encouraging them, increasing their confidence in giving their testimony
- for the teachers, being prepared to manage the class by preparing questions and giving constructive comments
- Activity Category: Project Leader
- Activity Period: 2009
- Collaboration: other U.S. colleagues(non_university)
- Approved Date: 04-21-2011