[Pibe-division] Help with materials

[adrijana prokopenko]

Actually, they are only learning Macedonian braille, but since braille
is so universal and since they need so much support to learn better in
and about their field of study, thought I could kill two birds with
one stone. They will never be able to use grade two, because there is
no grade two in Macedonian and I will of course help them learn grade
two, but they want to master grade 1 really well first. They will
probably only use Macedonian braille when they start teaching.

On 1/6/16, Marianne Denning via PIBE-Division <pibe-division at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> I assume they are learning English braille.
>
> On 1/6/16, Robert Pardue via PIBE-Division <pibe-division at nfbnet.org>
> wrote:
>> Unless these students are preparing to teach only uncontracted braille, I
>> would not recommend the extra work. I would give the students access to
>> the
>> contraction lists that are applicable and let them see braille for what
>> it
>> truly should be. Learning solely from uncontracted braille will not
>> prepare
>> these future teachers for what is necessary in teaching true braille
>> literacy. I applaud the intention, but this approach may have unintended
>> consequences; for, as you said, braille instruction is new for these
>> teacher
>> candidates.
>>
>> ________________________________
>> R. Martin Pardue, M.A.T. NCLB
>> Teacher of Blind Students
>> OPSB Vision Services
>>
>> "If I want to do it, nothing is difficult. If I don't want to do it,
>> nothing
>> is easy.''
>> Sifu Shi Yan Ming
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: PIBE-Division <pibe-division-bounces at nfbnet.org> on behalf of
>> adrijana
>> prokopenko via PIBE-Division <pibe-division at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 5:18 AM
>> To: Professionals in Blindness Education Division List;
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>> Cc: adrijana prokopenko
>> Subject: [Pibe-division] Help with materials
>>
>> Maybe I should give the world a little lesson on special education
>> degree and how it works in Macedonia. This is a 4-year university
>> degree mainly consisting of general courses regarding disability and
>> if they decide to choose blindness as their specialty, they have more
>> of these courses in their final years of study. Most of these courses
>> are taught by Macedonian professors and are related to history,
>> psychology and education for the blind and some are full of research
>> and numbers regarding disability related figures  such as employment
>> rate and a lot of the time they focus on matters that are long dealt
>> with in most developed countries and that blind people faced 50 years
>> or more ago.  These books are not very encouraging and realistic to
>> describe some aspects of blindness to sighted students who are
>> studying to work with us and I am glad that these students have the
>> chance to visit our school a few times a year, do their observations
>> there and hold a few lessons themselves. Braille and cane mobility are
>> never taught to them at all and orientation and mobility doesn't even
>> exist as a choice of study, but I was informed that they are making
>> braille courses mendatory at the university now. As soon as I found
>> out about this, I knew that my next task was to somehow do something
>> to help them, so I started looking up for noncopyright materials to
>> braille for them and asking editors of magazines and articles to allow
>> me to braille their materials, hoping that this will help those
>> students learn and enjoy reading braille and learn lots more about
>> different aspects of blindness and what life is like for us. I am
>> brailling everything by hand with my Perkins brailler, because even if
>> I find magazines I can pass onto them, they are all in grade two, so I
>> am making everything in grade one for them. If anyone else would like
>> to help me do this, has their articles or knows of good articles and
>> people that would be willing to share theirs with those students or
>> could even provide me with special education course or other materials
>> in print, audio or electronic format that could help them in their
>> learning, feel free to email me at:
>>  adrijana.prokopenko at gmail.com
>>  so we can talk about it. We would all appreciate your help.
>>
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