Slepý učiteľ

Jeden Kikin učiteľ je slepý. Už dávnejšie som sa vypytovala Kiky, ako jeho hodiny vyzerajú, lebo to mohlo byť kdekoľvek od katastrofy po off-the-charts. (Pred rokmi som stretla jedného slepého fyzika/programátora, ktorý tú latku, že čo je možné, nastavil naozaj vysoko.) Toto sa ukazuje byť niekde medzi, ale nedávno bolo zaujímavé si o tom prečítať z jeho perspektívy v školskom časopise:

The one definite drawback for me is that I won’t know who you are. Not because I don’t care, but because I can’t. Because I have no means, not because those means are dehumanising, but because I lack those means. When I recognize people, I do this by the voice. I expect certain people in certain places of the classroom, I can seek from certain “pools” of people. I get a lot of students in my office, or I recognize the voice. But this only works on an individual level. I get inputs and I can’t do this for several hundred students and as many new colleagues alike.

If there’s a silver lining here, this gives me a lot more objectivity. I can’t have favorite students. I don’t see the student whom I dislike. I won’t have the students pigeonholed into “good” and “bad,” “responsible,” “hardworking,” “consistent” and “unreliable.” I won’t drag what I might know about you into my feedback or assessment. I won’t assess you based on expectations based on how you speak. So each time you hand in an assignment, you start with a clean slate.

I don’t know whether this makes up for the fact that I won’t see your hand motion for me in the morning, greet you back on the first name basis, or create a more relaxed atmosphere in class. I don’t know whether this makes me the teacher you’d like to meet every time you want something done.

 

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