Work & Learning

I figured I should write a post on what takes up quite a bit of my life these days, which is my job, and learning how to do my job. For the past year, and for another year and half to come, I will be taking several credits of courses each semester to learn how to become a better teacher of students with visual impairments. This is my study chair on our porch. I spend most Saturday mornings here:

My school district was nice enough (and desperate enough) to take the risk of hiring me as the district "expert" on vision impairments in the classroom. I have 14 students. 3 of whom I teach and work with in braille. My office is at Slate Creek Elementary and I work there, with one of my primary students, most of the time. It's great school and I feel really at home there. (You can click on the picture to move around.)
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This is a deck of beginner-braille flashcards I recently made for one of my students in first grade who is going blind quickly, but can still read print. Her teacher told me that she remembers things best when they're "pretty" and I knew she sees green on yellow best.



Come June, I will be in Winnipeg again for 7 weeks, as I continue to take graduate classes at the North Dakota School for the Blind (near UND) in Grand Forks. I write up my research project over the winter 2009-2010 and hope to graduate in May 2010.