[Blindmath] [Social-sciences-list] [BlindAcademics] Math Teaching Techniques

[Arielle Silverman]

Thanks everyone for the helpful teaching suggestions. Right now my
questions are still pretty abstract since I don't even know if I want
a  position that includes teaching. However, it's good to know that
several blind people have successfully handled these  issues in case
questions come up in a job interview. If I do get a teaching position,
then I will probably have more specific questions.
I would plan to use PowerPoint a lot. One issue is that I have been
totally blind since birth, and can barely sign my own name, hence I
would not trust myself to draw anything and  expect it to be of
educational value to others.
I like the  idea of making the classes interactive, but I am curious
how easy this is to do in a lecture of 350 students?
Best,
Arielle

On 11/9/12, Cary Supalo <cas380 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Arielle,
> I use Power Point slides for lots of my lectures. Further, book
> publishers make available to teachers pre-drawn slides. I work with a
> reader to select the ones I want to use from the database the
> publisher provides. I can then supplement these slides with other
> ones I have made.
> I then use hard copy Braille for the text on the slides. I run the
> presentation using a text-to-speech screen reader. I want to try
> using the ViewPlus Iveo with tactile drawings of phase diagrams and
> other 2d visuals. I will have to add text descriptions to the
> graphics which are already Braille labeled of additional details to
> be mentioned. I have not done this yet, but this is something I
> intend to try before to long.
> Hope this helps.
> Cary
> At 08:42 PM 11/8/2012, Arielle Silverman wrote:
>>Hi all,
>>I was just curious whether any of you have experience teaching
>>quantitative subjects at the college level (i.e. math, chemistry,
>>statistics etc.) and if so, could you share a little bit about any
>>alternative methods you use for teaching sighted students? As a
>>soon-to-be psychology Ph.D. I am qualified to teach statistics
>>courses, but I've observed that at least at the introductory level, a
>>lot of the content is traditionally presented in a very visual way,
>>i.e. with histograms, emphasis on the graphical properties of
>>probability distributions, etc. I didn't learn that way myself and so
>>I'm a little lost as to how I would present this kind of material in a
>>way that is accessible to sighted students. How have you handled these
>>kinds of issues?
>>Best,
>>Arielle
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