This document summarizes the maker space programs implemented in Roanoke County Schools for students with disabilities. It describes how the elementary program started with pull-out classes and expanded to include integrated classrooms and after school programs. The middle school program focuses on self-contained classes and aims to expand to include more tools. The presentation provides examples of maker activities used in the programs including 3D printing, coding, e-textiles, and geocaching. It outlines plans to further expand and improve the programs at both the elementary and middle school levels.
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Roanoke County Schools SPED and ITRT Department
Jessica McClung – jmclung@rcs.k12.va.us
Meg Swecker – mswecker@rcs.k12.va.us
Tina Coffey – tcoffey@rcs.k12.va.us
3. MakerSpaces are creative, DIY spaces where people can gather to create,
invent, and learn. They often have 3D printers, software, electronics, craft and
hardware supplies and tools, and more.
4. Elementary Program
• Focused on students in co-taught
classes
• Small group of students in a social
skills group
• Expanded to integrated classrooms,
self contained programs, and
MakerMondays (afterschool program)
Target Students
Middle School Program
• Focused on students in self-contained
classes
• The program addresses functional
academics and daily living skills for
students with significant disabilities
who require a modified curriculum.
• A plan is in place to expand to other
classes beginning in the 2015-2016
school year.
5. Children’s Engineering
• Project based on design brief that
dictates materials, tools, and
criteria.
Maker Activity
• Project based on student
choice. Could be inspired by
question or impulse the learner
has. Might be based on a prompt
(Brevity, Ambiguity, Immunity to
Assessment).
27. Where we are going…
Elementary Program
• Faculty Training for ALL Teachers
• Continued Programs During
School Day
• Expanding to more schools
• More After-School Programs
• K-1 Students
• One Day Workshops
• Summer Program
Middle Program
• Explore more tools
• Littlebits, E-Textiles, Cubelets, 3D
Printer
• Summer Program
• A More Centralized Location-
Plan to move materials to a
location that allows more usage
for other classes as well
28. Jessica McClung
Director of Special Education and Pupil
Personnel Services
Roanoke County Schools
Email: jmmclung@rcs.k12.va.us
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Notes de l'éditeur
Introductions – 2 min
We can combine three slides into one with this.
What are Makerspaces and how they are different than Children’s Engineering. – 5 min max
2 min.
We can combine three slides into one with this.
2 min.
Middle– feel free to move this first…just add something about it being how you started…
Middle– feel free to move this first…just add something about it being how you started…
Elementary 1 : Started with pull-out social skills group and two specific co-taught 4th grade classes
Elementary Slide 2 (pull out)
1:20 min video
Elementary Slide 5 (1:20 min video)
Allowed students who had visited with SPED feel like “experts” in their own co-taught classes. (9 sec video)
Elementary Slide 3 Encouraged “MAKER” activities (8 second video and 12 sec video)