9:30@ Nguyen Dinh Chieu school (class 8)
Today, I went to Nguyen Dinh Chieu school to observe the class. I observed 14 years-old class. There are 41 students in the class and three of them are visually impaired. They were studying about diagrams and the angle. I haven’t studying math in ages so I felt it’s difficult. Despite the lesson about diagrams, there was no diagram in the braille textbook. Each point of the complicated diagram has sign such as A, B, C… and the students have to prove the equality of their sum. I wondered that how can they imagine the complicated diagram and remember the place of each sign without touching it. When the teacher called on them to answer the task, the blind children could answer just like looking at the diagram. I thought the blind children must have studied a lot compared to the sighted children. Many teachers told me that mathematics is the most difficult subject for blind children because there are so many diagrams, tables and charts in the textbook and it’s difficult to show in braille.
This is the window of the classroom which is unglazed. I thought the children must be cold in winter. In Vietnam, all primary schools will close if the temperature drop to below 10℃. When I first knew about this regulation, I thought it’s fanny because 10℃ is not cold enough to close the school. But today I felt that the children cannot concentrate on study in such condition. There’s no heating system in the classroom and the window has no glass. Moreover, the concrete building made us feel colder than outside. I thought they should try to make the classroom warmer, not close the school.
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