[nabs-l] Blind Teachers

[Ashley Bramlett]

Hi Robert,
Yes there are teachers out there. You might want to join the blind educators 
list which is also on the www.nfbnet.org site.
You might also want to contact the president of the Nobe division, national 
organization of blind educators.
She will want a mentor based on her field of study. The challenges will vary 
widely based on the subject and age group of children or adults. If teaching 
elementary age kids, classroom management is a challenge. She will need to 
develop techniques for classroom management without vision. If teaching high 
school, you still need to manage them, but those students should be more 
mature. If teaching college or beyong, classroom management isn't much an 
issue; students have to behave or they can be asked to leave.

The other two challenges are technology barriers and attitudinal barriers. 
As you may know, technology is becoming more prevelant at all grade levels 
and with that comes inaccessibility as a student or a teacher. Finally, not 
many officials give blind teachers a chance so that is an issue.

I actually wanted to teach, but got discourage by the attitudes I faced in 
my education class and the workload for it. But it is doable. From what I've 
heard teachers are better received at the college level; another option is 
being self employed where you don't answer to anyone; like running your own 
home school or tutoring service. My point being teaching is a great field, 
but it doesn't have to mean sending out endless amounts of resumes and being 
rejected year after year. You can use teaching skills in other areas.

HTH.
Ashley


-----Original Message----- 
From: Robert Miller
Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2012 7:55 PM
To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Subject: [nabs-l] Blind Teachers

I was wondering if there are any blind individuals teaching in public 
schools across our nation. I have a blind student in high school who wants 
to be a teacher.  I was hoping to gain some insight from all of you about 
the challenges she will face.
Thank you,
Robert
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