[nobe-l] help dealing with the visual side of teaching

[Heather Field]

Hello Kayla,
Since blind teachers need to teach their students different ways of 
communicating with them, and they usually need to organise their classroom 
so that resources have braille labels, and so on, I would not volunteer for 
this experiment. I am a teacher with over 30 years experience and I wouldn't 
be a teacher for a day if this opportunity was offered to me. Since a blind 
teacher needs to make specific modifications to the classroom to ensure that 
he/she can function independently, just walking into an unknown classroom 
with a class of students whom you have never met before seems to be setting 
oneself up for an discouraging experience.
Many blind teachers are successfully working as teachers, but they set up 
their classroom to suit them and they teach their students to follow 
classroom interaction rules that work for a blind teacher. So, while I 
believe you could become a successful blind teacher, and you could certainly 
volunteer to be a teacher for a day, I don't believe that going into a 
strange classroom for a day would accomplish anything positive for you.
Just my thoughts, of course.
Warmly,
Heather

-----Original Message----- 
From: Kayla James via NOBE-L
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2017 10:19 PM
To: National Organization of Blind Educators Mailing List
Cc: Kayla James
Subject: [nobe-l] help dealing with the visual side of teaching

Hello, everyone. I want to volunteer for a program called "Teacher for
a Day." My child development teacher thinks I can do it, but she and
the coordinator of the program are worried.
We can pick a grade for teaching, but since everything is so visual,
they are trying to decide what is best for me.
Can the totally blind teachers please send in advice so I can forward
it to my teacher? Oh, and p.s.: no teacher's aide are given.
My child development teacher said that aides aren't given all of the
time to teachers most of time. In fact, she suggested I become an
aide.
Thank you, everyone. I just want to see if I have what it takes to teach.

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