INSTITUTE FOR BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED CHILDREN (ZSSM), LJUBLJANA

(November 2013)

The law

1. Parnets hand in a application form to The National Education Institute of the Republic of Slovenia.

2. A commission tests a child – in a decision it is set: school, special equipment, hours of special help (school, Institue), ways of testing, adaptations needed ...

3. School contacts Institue for blind and partially sighted, if a child is not accepted at our school.

OUR WORK

• Kindergarten,• Elementary school,• Secondary school,• Inclusion.

Itinerary teacher – coordinator in inclusive classroom

Children (aged 0 to 19) from:• Ljubljana, • Gorenjska, • Koroška, • Primorska, • Štajerska ,• Prekmurje, • Dolenjska.

IN THE SCHOOL WE GO TO

• Advising the teachers, school counsellors, headmasters;

• Class – observations;

IN THE SCHOOL WE GO TO

• Test of the sight;• Giving information about novelties (books,

laws, new instruments ...);• Helping to get special

equipment (computers, magnifiers ...);

IN THE SCHOOL WE GO TO

• Lectures for the teachers – test of the sight,• Lectures for the students,• Workshops for the students and the teachers,

IN THE SCHOOL WE GO TO

• Individual work with a child;• Monitoring child`s progress (school, special

education, as personality);

IN THE SCHOOL WE GO TO

• Preparing teachers for the blind and visually impaired student (class);

• Preparing the kindergartens, schools, parents, child for the change (level).

• Helping with decisions for elementary, secondary school;

IN THE SCHOOL WE GO TO

• Organizing special learning hours (orientation, computer skills, typing, self-help);

IN THE SCHOOL WE GO TO

• School meetings for setting an individual program for the child (3-times a year – ip, evaluation of ip, evaluation of ip and new goals);

• Other: - help at home, - counseling to other after school teachers

(sports, music ...), - ...

IN THE SCHOOL and AT HOME

• Working with parents (e-mail);• Writing reports for national tests (at the end

of 2nd, 3rd triad and at end of secondary school);

IN THE SCHOOL and AT HOME

• Invitations to workshops, meetings, lectures, camps organized by ZSSM or other institutions;

AT OUR INTITUTE

We take care of:• KINDERGARTEN,• SCHOOL,• ACTIVITIES FOR INCLUSION,• DORMITORY.

AT OUR INSTITUTE

• Organizing workshops and lectures for parents and children (pre-school – high-school);

AT OUR INSTITUTE

• Working on different projects, conferences (OPTIC – an Inclusive classroom, ESS – Early language teaching, A creative and effective learning environment for the blind and visually impaired, Early intervention ...).

+ in this job

• A great deal of variety.• You respond when needed.• You stay in the classrom as long as you want.• A real environment (more than 3 hours).• Instant advice.• Constant contact with a child, parents, teachers.• Children: “Itinerary teacher = my friend”.• You can help other children too.

- In this job

• Teachers can get you wrong (a burden, control, inspection).

• School`s will of cooperation (to much work, responsibility).

• Parents` will of cooperation (school, environment, facing their own fears).

• School: “Itinerary teacher = we have to work”.• A lot of traveling (20 – 400 km / day, up to 5

hours in a car, up to 12 hours away from home).

How to get the best of it?

• Cooperation: child, parents, school, itinerary teacher.

• Environment (schoolmates, class organisation).

• Doing your job, homework, reaching the goals.• Feel, understand the other person.• Working for life not for one lesson.• Learn!

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