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The world of itinerant teaching is constantly evolving with changes in expectations, policies, and practices. These changes may affect our students educational setting and learning environment, resulting in how we approach instruction. Join us as we discuss looking beyond the tips and tricks of itinerant teaching. Explore the possibilities of expanding your instructional services into contract work and additional opportunities to serve students with visual impairments, including blindness and deaf-blindness. From this discussion, you will gain an understanding of the lessons we ve learned along our journey as independent contractors in the field of visual impairment across a variety of systems and how these experiences may help you decide to expand your current service provider options.Learning Objectives:1.Participants will learn about the unique and foundational aspects of the itinerant teaching model and how vision impairment professionals have adapted to this teaching model to serve the students they work with.2.Participants will learn about the emerging need for independent contractors for children and students with visual impairment in charter schools, regional centers, non-profit, and other institutions.3.Participants will learn how they can expand their current use of effective organizational strategies for planning, scheduling, documenting, and communicating using traditional and electronic methods, to help them decide if independent contract work may be a good fit. |
