History teacher

Job Title

History teacher

Job Description

Marie-France has been working as a senior history teacher in a high school near Paris teacher for more than 20 years. The college is situated in an area with many foreigners and growing various social difficulties, which makes teachers take a role of social workers, and she enjoys it.

Getting the job

Always wanting to be a history teacher, she fought to be exceptionally accepted in spite of her blindness in an entrance exam at the ministry to become teacher with the aggregation.

Adjustments

She has an assistant who writes on the board for her and helps her correct exams. She knows her limits but for almost everything, she relies on her memory, her Braille slate and stylus.

Quote

You have to believe in your dreams and hassle all organisations when you know your cause is just and worth defending. When rules speak against you, you always have the chance to be the exception.

Is individual totally blind?

Yes

Is individual partially sighted?

No

Source Country:

France

Source Organisation:

CNPSAA ( From the book : «Les Aveugles au Travail » (106 témoignages) published in France in 1999 under the direction of Philippe Chazal)


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