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

[Kayla James]

I suppose you're right.


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> On Feb 19, 2017, at 1:22 AM, Heather Field via NOBE-L <nobe-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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