very well said mam about village schools. Being an extremely low vision student, I too received a lot of cooperation from my teacher's side while in school.
On 2/20/13, KanchanPamnani <[email protected]> wrote: > George, > 1. Cover Kalpana Karade's experiment with Scientists, trainee teachers and > Visually challenged girls on how to do experiments. She will tell you in > detail. It was quietly done and maybe people dont know of it but it was > wonderful. I hope atleast one scientist can voice it publicly. > 2. I went to a regular school and I had lots of minor adjustments from > teachers since I was low visioned. these adjustments were done in the days > long before the PWD Act. The adustments made by the ICSE Board for me are > documented by Pranay. > 3. The effort put in by parents to ensure that their children get educated > must not be forgotten. My mother had to do a B ED for me. My father spent > hours teaching me as we travelled whether in the city or on vacations. > 4. I guess you will cover XRCVC > 5.Raman and IIT would be good to feature. > 6. I had met a lady working in rural maharshtra and she had told me that > village schools are generally inclusive in the sense that everyone can go > and sit there. These schools dont have anything much so forget about > braille > and all, but they allow all kids to sit around and the teacher keeps > repeating and the lack of a blackboard also helps the visully challenged. > Smile. > 7. I guess you will cover the law-PWD, RTE, judgements, UNCRPD, SSA, et all > > I can only end by saying Knowledge is Power . > Kanchan > -----Original Message----- > From: AccessIndia [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of George Abraham > Sent: 18 February 2013 07:48 > To: [email protected]; daisyforumofindia@googlegroups. com > Cc: 'Eyeway Team Delhi'; 'Darpan Ved' > Subject: [AI] Eyeway TV serial: Theme Education > > Hi All, > > > > Education is key to empowerment. Education is critical to make blind and > visually impaired persons contributing members of our economy. The > education that blind people get should be at par with what other citizens > have access to. > > > > There have been a number of innovations that have been made across the > country to include blind and visually impaired into the mainstream. There > are a number of interesting efforts made to make teaching of Science and > Maths interesting and possible like the efforts made at the Deonar > school,Hyderabad. Besides the various technologies and products used to > make education, exam writing etc accessible. For a blind person to be fully > included, he/she needs to get quality education. The episode will seek to > establish that quality education can be provided. The National education > programmes must start counting blind and visually impaired persons as part > of the diversity that exists in the classroom and hence must evolve > pedagogic techniques, curriculum, school designs etc accordingly. The > educationists should recognise the need for including blind people in > school and must believe in it. In essence we would like to establish that > blind people can be included in the National scheme of things and they must > be included. The serial will project the possibilities and the motivation. > > > > Folks, please do share examples of good education practices, examples like > the Delhi Public School (R K Puram),, Innovative teaching methods deployed > in schools whther special school or inclusive schools, Examples of students > who have been well included, > > > > At the end of the day, we want the country to include us. Your > contributions are welcome and deeply appreciated. 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