Below are some representative articles on successful blind and visually impaired teachers. As you will see, these brief profiles indicate the variety of ways in which visually impaired teachers may be successful, whether in grade school, middle school, high school, or college.

As a blind teacher, how do you handle classroom discipline? A. I start by having a regular seating chart for my students so that I know where each student is sitting. This makes it easier to identify and, if necessary, separate troublemakers. Instead of sitting behind my desk while teaching, I constantly move around the classroom.

Being a successful blind teacher starts when you are preparing to become a teacher. In addition to acquiring a thorough mastery of the subject matter that you will be teaching, you will need to master basic competencies and life skills which will enable you to function independently as a blind person in all aspects of your life.

"What are you doing in the third row?" the bearded teacher asks jokingly. "You know I can't talk to moving targets." The confusion in this classroom is understandable: Ticchi is not the regular classroom teacher; he is a substitute. And he is blind. He is also very quick to say, "I'm a teacher who is blind, not a blind teacher."

In June, 1990, Judy Krecek, a member of the Kankakee-Heartland Chapter of the National Federation of the Blind of Illinois, spoke to her chapter about her job as a teacher. Her remarks were reprinted in the Summer, 1990, issue of The Blind Educator, the publication of the National Association of Blind Educators.

2021年9月20日 · It is about the frustration and shortcomings of a teacher in a mainstream high school who was given the challenge of working with a student who is visually impaired. It is about how I overcame my own inhibitions and how I gained new insight by interacting with a visually impaired student.

2016年9月9日 · Like most women her age in China, Liu Fang has only one child. But at the rural school in southwest China's Guizhou Province where she teaches, students call her "mom" and share little secrets with her they would never tell their parents or friends. With her artistic talent and an innate love of teaching, Liu makes the classroom her stage.

Blind students who are contemplating careers in teaching must understand the complexity of the situation they find themselves in and must be prepared to work their way through it. Fred Schroeder is the Director of the New Mexico Commission for the Blind and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Federation of the Blind.

2021年9月6日 · It is a sea of change for most visually impaired (VI) students when they enter Ahmad Ibrahim Secondary School, after spending their early years in a special school. For starters, they need to navigate far bigger premises, and learn alongside sighted students, many of whom are making friends with persons with disabilities for the first time.