Bulletin Boards and Information / Work Posting
Teachers often use wall space and bulletin boards to communicate important ideas to their students or to display interesting items or student work. The braille-reading student in your class will also benefit from your efforts at posting class information and student work.
Students who are blind need and enjoy the same information that other students have access to through bulletin boards, posters and other information posted on walls of the classroom (e.g., class schedule, class rules). Some of this information (especially information that does not change from week to week) can be brailled and placed in a notebook that is stored at the student’s desk. Other, more temporary information can be handled in a variety of ways. For example:
- Use a buddy system so that every week a friend gives the braille-reading student a “tour” of the newly posted information, allowing the braille-reader to ask questions about information of interest.
- Set up a routine in which new information is placed in a specific notebook by the classroom door (or some other easily accessible location). In this way, the student can check for him or herself each week for new information. While this would require that some material (like classmate’s work) be transcribed into braille for the student, it would allow for independent exploration of new class material.