SQA Braille Competency Course - Uncontracted April 2022 - March 2023

Number of Participants completing: 4
Number of Respondents: 4

Overall Assessment:

How would you rate the following:

How will you use what you have learned in this course?

I will use this to help those children I teach on how to use Braille.
To support the children I am working with on a day to day basis, lots of pre-braille skills at the moment but really helpful now to have the basic skills to support more.
To support a pupil's learning within class.
I will use it on a daily basis to support my blind pupil who is learning braille.

How would you rate the following:

What was best about the course?

Learning the Braille to get a better understanding on how blind people read.
Flexibility to learn at own pace and feeling a sense of achievement once I could actually understand braille and use brailler – amazing!
Having opportunity to learn braille so as to support a pupil in class.
Discovering braille coding.

What, if anything, could have been improved?

Nothing.
I think it was perfect. If anything maybe a clearer explanation or video about setting up brailler – spacing, etc.
Explanations about how to set up margins, indentations and space between parts.

Any other comments regarding the course?

None.
I was lucky as colleagues were able to keep me right. And I hadn't really noticed that my brailler was not great until I got a shot of another one for my exam – good brailler make a huge difference.

Distance Learning

This course was delivered through distance learning - did you find this a good arrangement or would you have preferred a different mode of delivery? Please comment either way.

Yes, it helped to manage time instead of going into a classroom.
Distance was good – easier than I thought before I started but once I got into it, it was fine.
Found it a good arrangement as it fitted in with day-to-day life.
Yes, it was a good arrangement.

Overall distance learning experience

How would you rate the overall learning experience?

How did you hear about this course?

Co-ordinator/Line Manager: 3
SSC website: 1

What other SSC CPD training would you find useful?

Level 2 Braille.
Any training course related to teaching for visually impaired people.