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

[Gabias, Paul]

Hi Arielle,

You write:  " 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."  Fair
enough!  I have never had any more vision than you have.  But, with
experience, I have become bolder in the blackboard or whiteboard arena.
I use two chalks or pens at once.  It's easier that way, to keep
everything coordinated.

All The Best

Paul Gabias Ph.D. LL.D.

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Techniques

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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