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Ask for help > Ideas to teach German A1 to a class where there īs a blind 16year old boy - 7 hours per week
Ideas to teach German A1 to a class where there īs a blind 16year old boy - 7 hours per week
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a isabel
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Ideas to teach German A1 to a class where there īs a blind 16year old boy - 7 hours per week
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Hi dear colleagues,
In spite of having already received some help, I īd like to see if anyone else has more ideas. No copies (lack of money), many OHP out of order, not enough rooms where we can use the computer... I more worried about the blind - how do you usually deal with the fact that the rest of the class wants videos, pictures films but a blind person can īt enjoy..?
Any suggestion is most welcome!
Thanks a lot for your help!
AIsabel
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18 Sep 2010
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elderberrywine
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I don īt think I can help you here.
Just one thought: a blind person is probably quite used to coping in a video-, film - , picture- oriented world and working via listening. Blind people even "watch" TV so somehow they must enjoy it.
And if you get the other pupils to describe a picture or a freeze image from a film to the blind student you create an atmosphere of cooperation and a German exercise at the same time!
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18 Sep 2010
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elderberrywine
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One more idea.
I think I would tackle this by not thinking that I have to do something for this student, but with an idea of cooperation. Let this young person show you his needs cooperate with him in order to find a way to teach him. He (or was it a she?) is definitely old enough to tell you what works with him and what doesn īt.
I would tell him: hey, you must teach me how to teach you. I īve got lots of German to offer and you tell me how to wrap it up in order to get it across to you.
See what I mean?
In this way you take the pressure off yourself and take this adolescent seriously and make him take charge.
(sorry if i expressed this somewhat clumsily, my head is full of flu and devoid of English and clear thought!)
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19 Sep 2010
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