Issues and Strategies for Visually Impaired Learners
Tuesday 7 March 2006
Course evaluation summary
Number of Participants: 28; Number of Respondents: 28
Overall Assessment:
How would you rate the following: Excellent = 1; Poor = 5
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Enhancement to your expertise |
1.86 |
Content and supplementary material |
1.66 |
How will you use what you have learned today?
Low Vision Aids (LVA) input.
Practical strategies to use in classroom.
Have given me some more knowledge. I will have to assess how
to employ it.
Hopefully to enhance the teaching of VI pupils in mainstream schools. To
push for greater LVA Clinic involvement in my area.
To provide info to others and how visual aids may be transferable to
other educational settings.
Thro' talks and use of LVAs, have been reminded how important it is to
put ourselves in the learners' shoes.
Assignment and daily practice.
In my daily practice.
I will use information about Low Vision Aids to observe/assess and try
and improve my support to pupils who are using such equipment.
Disseminate the knowledge learned.
Discuss what I learned today with my colleagues.
As I work with pupils who are MDVI not able to use aids available today
but will request more regular assessments.
Review some approaches working with VI individuals in classroom - exploring
objects, time given and orientating within spaces. Much of low vision
aids are not appropriate for my pupils but is interesting to have awareness
of what is available.
Everything was relevant.
The information from today's course will be invaluable in my daily work
with VI pupils.
I will take all the info back to my working colleagues and discuss it
with them then take it from there.
Take forward some of the information/techniques to use/trial in my day-to-day
work supporting VI pupils.
Interesting day but unfortunately at the moment not relevant in my teaching
position.
Look at local procedures for transition stages. Find out more about
local arrangements for LVA clinics.
To develop use of LVAs.
Work on ways to make my pupils more self reliant. Get my main pupil
appointment at Low Vision Clinic. Look at technology for viewing whiteboard.
Add it to what I already know to develop my teaching practice.
Improved contacts with other VI teachers, services in Scotland.
Indirectly in personal and professional development.
Investigate SSC website/RNIB/download Vicki Logan's info.
How would you rate the following: Excellent = 1; Poor = 5
| p> Clarity of presentation | 1.46 |
Pacing of course/event |
1.78 |
What was best about the course/event?
LVA and hands-on experience.
Enjoyed and profitable in future work.
Networking - information about some of the aids etc.
Informative on LVAs. Chance to meet with fellow VI teachers and share
experience.
Info on visual aids and application/use. Profile of Scottish children
also very interesting.
1) It gave a good overall picture of aspects of VI education in Scotland. 2) Access
to key players - VI education in Scotland.
Info about LVAs.
Relevant content to my role as Teacher of the Visually Impaired. Opportunity
to liaise with others who are also working with pupils with range of visual
impairments in other local authorities.
All of it was very good.
Practical activity was useful.
Found all parts interesting especially Borders Project.
Mary Lee input met the needs of my pupils' group. John Ravenscroft's
focus was interesting also as a national overview.
It would be hard to pick out which area was best. The Borders project
was really interesting as was the work undertaken by VIS. However
I needed consolidation on LVA's as well. Videos were also relevant
and useful.
Meeting and discussing issues and strategies used by other VI teachers
in different areas.
All of it was good.
The profile of Scottish VI Children (John Ravenscroft)/Scottish Borders
Project Presentation (Vicki Logan).
Profile of Scottish VI Children. Good overall view. Visual impairment
and early development needs.
Practical aspects
Very practical in terms of people talking about real practice and what
happens in your/their daily work.
Good handouts, clear information.
Hands-on experience of visual aids.
Motivating.
Having the opportunity to hear experts and fellow VI teachers talk about
their experiences and their solutions to difficulties.
Knowledge given by VI Scotland and School for Blind.
Overview of Scottish VI pupils was excellent and filled a gap for
me.
Scottish Borders Project.
The knowledge of presenters and I am sure they would provide further
information if contacted.
What, if anything, could have been improved about the course?
Timekeeping was a problem - is it that there was too much being covered
in one day?
1) Provision of either paper for notetaking or photocopies of Powerpoints
(particularly Vicki Logan's). 2) Smaller groups to discuss issues
raised. 3) Larger room to allow movement when looking at LVAs.
Bibliography at onset. Pace - sometimes a lot of information in one
day! ie; Blind School, SSC Course.
A great deal of sitting listening - many more hands-on.
More reference to MDVI pupils - environment, presentation of objects,
position of lighting.
More input for MDVI level of pupil. Environmental issues, ob. of ref
presentation, orientation within spaces and approaches to routine activities
(eating, drinking) for MDVI (pupils).
Larger room for the number of participants. Something to lean on for
writing.
Would have welcomed more input from Mary Lee re pupils with ASN (MGS,
Objects of Reference).
Room was quite crowded. More space would be nice.
Powerpoint: hard copy of notes for all presentations. Handouts accompanying
video presentations.
Speakers rushed.
A more varied presentation.
Pace of delivery.
Perhaps having LVAs in separate room for use at break - room was cramped
and made it time-consuming for everyone to try them.
Thought there would be more input on strategies. More practical tips
on working with VI pupils.
Room was too small for the practical hands-on activity. The low vision
aids video plus questions may have allowed more time for Vicki Logan questions.
Any other comments regarding the course?
Food good - venue good - travel map excellent.
A worthwhile day, reinforcing a lot I know already.
Good.
Relevant to my own ongoing personal and professional development.
Overall, it was a well balanced course - informative and interesting.
Videos too lengthy.
Video was very specific to one part of group - Post Graduate students? Very
academic.
Very enjoyable and valuable. Many thanks.
Good chance to network with other VI colleagues.
Useful; informative; thought-provoking; good!
Heavy going!
All very interesting and potentially useful.
I appreciate that authorities are reluctant to release funds therefore
these events can be too full - I certainly would consider the diploma in
the future. A very interesting day - thank you.
Location and Venue (SSC)
Convenient location for this course: No
Response 4; Yes 22; No 2
How would you rate the following: Excellent = 1; Poor = 5
Convenience of venue |
1.75 |
Quality of venue |
1.78 |
Likely to attend if venue was used again: No Response 3; Likely 24; Less Likely 1
What other CPD training would you like the SSC to provide?
Doing some - will know more when I have been in service more.
1) I would be very interested in a course which looks at CPVI from
an educationalist viewpoint. Gordon Dutton is excellent but is a medic
(albeit with an excellent insight into education). There is knowledge
out there about how to deal with problems in maths, reading and across the
curriculum . . . . I need to access it! Gordon is making/has made
a video with CPVI kids - might be worth a look although it is aimed at medics. 2) Any
course highlighting VI kids who are in schools/units for severe and complex
difficulties. 3) Dual sensory impairment.
Training on how to train pupils to use LVAs.
Focus on MDVI pupils.
Approaches in teaching MDVI pupils.
Training in LVAs.
Technology.
Outcomes Assessment
If you are a teacher, how would you rate this course in relation to the following "Chartered Teacher Standard" components: very useful = 1; not useful = 5
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your professional values and personal commitment |
1.66 |
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your professional knowledge and understanding |
1.38 |
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your professional and personal attributes |
1.55 |