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Recruiting New College Students to Become Teachers of the Visually Impaired
Find ways to help solve the teacher shortage by promoting and encouraging college bound students to become teachers of the visually impaired.
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There is a teacher shortage. There has been one since before the pandemic that started in 2020. With the need for more skilled teachers in the field, there is even more of a shortage crisis in the field of special education.
Teachers of the Visually Impaired (TVIs) and the vision community need to help solve this problem by promoting and encouraging college bound students into this field as a meaningful career choice.
Back in 1999, Good Morning America did a piece, “There’s a National Shortage of Braille Teachers and the Situation is Dire.” Emily Coleman, the superintendent for Texas school for the Blind and Visually Impaired was interviewed about the shortage of braille educators to support literacy needs.
Kateri Gullifor was also interviewed and stated that if more people knew how rewarding being a teacher of the visually impaired was then [...]