<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body >When I had several students at I time, I set up centers around the room. If there were three students, I had three to six centers. The class period was divided into thirds with two minutes at the beginning of the period, between each center and at the end of the period. I used a timer for the center times.<div><br></div><div>One center was me so each student got one-on-one with me each day. The other centers might be: reading a Braille passage and writing about it or answering questions about it, finding braille errors and correcting them, spelling words with and without contractions, using Language Master cards to learn new contractions, Nemeth Code practice, calendar practice, listening to a passage and writing about it, etc. They weren't made to be finished in a day but more like in a week.</div><div><br></div><div>If a student needed extra one-on-one they got two Centers with me that day/each day. If I could, students were grouped to help each other sometimes.</div><div><br></div><div>It's been awhile since I had any beginning Braille students but I think this is how it worked! I did the same with non-Braille students including keyboarding, listening, homework time, cctv use, etc. as a center. </div><div><br></div><div>Fortunately, I usually had a para and now I see students one at a time!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><br><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Jasmine Kotsay via Pibe-division <pibe-division@nfbnet.org> </div><div>Date:09/28/2014 8:09 PM (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: Anita Adkins <asadkins@frontier.com>, Professionals in Blindness Education Division List <pibe-division@nfbnet.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: [Pibe-division] Teaching multiple students Braille at theSametime </div><div><br></div>Hi,<br> These are awesome ideas! My teacher used to have an aide or <br>two, so it was easy to break us into groups. Sometimes she would <br>even be able to read with us individually.<br><br> ----- Original Message -----<br>From: Anita Adkins via Pibe-division <pibe-division@nfbnet.org<br>To: "Domonique Lawless" <dlawless86@gmail.com>,"Professionals in <br>Blindness Education Division List"<pibe-division@nfbnet.org<br>Date sent: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 18:43:58 -0400<br>Subject: Re: [Pibe-division] Teaching multiple students Braille <br>at theSametime<br><br>Hi,<br><br>I will be interested to hear suggestions from others as well on <br>this topic.<br>But, here are a few of my thoughts. First, depending on how <br>often the<br>classes are and their length, you can a lot each student a given <br>amount of<br>time for working with you individually. I don't mean each <br>student x amount<br>of minutes every class, but rather, work with Bob more on Monday <br>than you do<br>with others, Sally on Wednesday, and Fred on Friday. That <br>doesn't mean you<br>don't work with the other kids or take a few minutes to do a <br>group lesson;<br>it just means that child gets the larger amount of individual <br>tim</body>