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Tag: teacher of the visually impaired

Perfect! COE licensure-candidates post 100% pass rate on edTPA despite waiver

September 8, 2020 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, SEED

Chris Gomes submitted his edTPA Feb. 23, two months before the Illinois State Board of Education decided this spring to waive that requirement for COVID-19. Passage of the edTPA, which measures a teacher-candidate’s competence in planning, instruction and assessment, is usually necessary

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Graduate student whips up a sweet recipe to teach children about visual disabilities

February 26, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, SEED

Elizabeth Hipskind stood in front of a room full of TVIs – teachers of the visually impaired – wearing an apron and prepared with a plastic tub of moist baby-wipes. Hipskind had come to the February conference of the Illinois Association for

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Visual Disabilities alumna Kateri Gullifor discovers joy, national acclaim in teaching

November 13, 2019 Mark McGowan Alumni, enewsletter, SEED

Kateri Gullifor laughs now when she thinks about the big red flag she wisely ignored on the way to her career. “I’ve never been one to be super well-oriented,” says Gullifor, a Teacher of the Visually Impaired and the only Orientation and

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Project VITALL group explores Consumer Electronics Show

January 23, 2018 Mark McGowan enewsletter, SEED

Stacy Kelly wants a robot. The associate professor in the NIU College of Education’s Vision Program came to that realization after she and a trio of graduate students in the Project VITALL master’s degree program spent three days at the annual Consumer

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Vision Program alum rekindles love of ice skating with Chicago Blackhawks Blind Hockey team

October 10, 2017 Mark McGowan Alumni, enewsletter, SEED

Kevin Allison had spent most of his young life on the ice in pursuit of one dream. “I was always a figure skater. I was always training. I was getting my degree at the same time – my undergraduate degree – but

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