Continued teacher education: seeking improvement for visually impaired teaching through assistive technologies

• Autor(a) principal: Marchi, Miriam Ines
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Silva, Tânia Núsia da Costa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Educação Especial (UFSM)
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/educacaoespecial/article/view/16066
• topic: Assistive technologies; Visually impaired; Continuing education.; Tecnologias assistivas. Deficiente Visual. Ensino de Química

This article is an excerpt of the Master’s thesis titled: “Visual Impairment: teaching and learning chemistry through assistive technologies in high school” and presents the continued education of teachers through the use of assistive technologies for the visually impaired. The course is offered to chemistry teachers and auxiliaries who work with visually impaired students, aimed to promote the development of new pedagogical practices by these assistive technologies. The observation method was used in two schools from the city of Boa Vista in Roraima to examine practices and concerns of the teachers and also the students’ needs in the regular classroom. From this practice it was decided to promote a Mecdaisy course which is a Brazilian technology that deals with a voice synthesizer (narration and allows you to combine text, audio and images to represent content). It was observed that continuing education had enabled a reflection and growth both in personal and professional way and also a pedagogical practices’ changing.