LEARNING CONTRACT

Overall theme What is the overall theme? What are you going to be working on?	Braille. I am going to learn how to read Braille. The final product will be to read an infant story. To begin with, we will do a few exercises of touch to differentiate the texturesI am going to practice it with the professional. To do this, I will use some sweaters, shirts that try to recognize themthrough the fabric. I will also use a domino to recognize each card’s numbers and thereby learn to touch and not leave a gap untouched. All this will be done with a mask on myeyes. After having stimulated touch with these exercises I would begin with Braille. Braille is a writing that isdesigned by points. They are six points and combining them by highlighting the interest we can create the entire alphabet, numbers, punctuation marks ...Every night I will dedicate half hour to learning by myself. I willuse a book written in Braille like the old children's nursery “Cartilla”. Each letter of the alphabet, you work within the text matches so helps you to recognize that letter. Texts successively addmore letters.
Justification of the project Why did you choose this topic/project? Why do you think it is relevant?	This is a subject very close to me. My mother is losing vision. Two years ago she decided to learn to read in Braille. It is an interesting topic because I can find a classroom with a child with visual problems and so I can help. If you have notes I can read Braille and if in doubt I be able to resolve them without the need for ink pass. I feel very comfortable making this project. Until now, blind children only had the chance to study in specific centres for them. There is one in Madrid and one in Barcelona. These centres are equipped with all the aida blind or visually impaired may need. Today these is changing and are trying to make blind children study in their environment and integrate them into regular classrooms. So more often we will find children who may have these problems. The fact that the teacher knows readingBraille it is a way to approach the child as theyboth can use the same tools and the child will feel more integrated and it will not be the only one who uses those tools. If you attend a regular school, he does not feel that your disability makes you different and not far from their family or emotional means. Modifies the attitudes of people about blindness. Facilitates adaptation and suitability to the visual world of the child and allows the seer to accept it. Further with my mum it is grateful to know her way to communicate by writing. In short, that I can understand their means of communication so that they feel less distinct or even displaced.
Define Objectives of Project What do you want to achieve with this project?	Personal goals: 1. Recognize all the letters of the alphabet in Braille and also the numbers. 2. Improve my touch 3. Read a short text using mostly touch. To the seer it is very difficult because they haven´t developed this sense. It is so easy to read Braille by sight because the points that are raised and these figures are visible to the naked eye. 4. Go slowly improving reading speed so that reading is more efficient. 5. Analyse and identify what the needs of a blind person can be. Language objective: 1. Identify my language level and reflect on what I can do to improve it. Objectives I want to achieve with listeners: 1. Familiarize children with braille. 2. Demonstrate that the world is different and not everyone has the same needs.
Decisions · How are you going to make decisions? Which strategies will you use? · Which decisions will you make?	Resources: -Material: The Cartilla to study all the letters, Braille alphabet, Clothes, infant stories written in ink and in Braille and a camera. -Human: I will meet a professional who helps me learning it. Before starting the project I reference the path of my mother when Braille study. It's a long learning so between the professional, I help my mother, my mother and I have adjusted the time frame. As we said earlier is an expensive job to learn this so clearly had iva need help learning . Once the professional feel that my mother is able to teach so she will be my career .for me it is much more comfortable because I avoid despalzamientos . I receive classes once a week with professional but then I have to review what they have learned during the week. This story will be read to a child. I decided it to see students reaction . In the blog , a weekly I will explainwhat I learn during the week and an explanation on the evolution of learning was published. The greatest difficulty that I can find is to find a story that suits my needs as not all the stories are written in Braille. The blind use much audio to read. Anyway, my mother is an affiliate of the ONCE library so I will go to this organization in whichthey can provide a list of the books they have.
Emergencies/contingencies: What will you do if...	The greatest difficulty that I can find is to find a story that suits my needs as not all the stories are written in Braille. The blind use much audio to read. Anyway, my mother is an affiliate of the ONCE library so I will go to this organization in whichthey can provide a list of the books they have.
Set target dates/timeline When are your tasks going to be due? How are you going to organize your project? When are you going to meet your tutor?	1,2,3 and 4 of november: ● We will start analyzing the information that we consider relevant: reading, watching documentaries, finding important ideas, etc. ● I will have a look to infant stories to choose the most appropriate. I will fill the sheet where we collect all the objectives. I will start with the touch exercises. · Create and fill the questionnaire. Day 4 until 6 of December : · In this period of time I will learn one letter per day. · Every Friday (8,15,22,29 of November and 6 of December)I will contact the Braille professional, and we will meet to practice what I have learnt. I will write the reflection about how I am progressing. Apart from that I will receive English lessons to achieve my language objectives and improve my English. After that we need time until the week to practice what I have learned. · Days 15,29 and 6 I will record how I read. 13 of December : ● Rounding up the project, mainly the written part. 20, 27 of December and 3 of January: · Read short infant stories. 6 of January : ● Preparing the video. ● Doing the recording about what I have learnt about the topic.
Strategies and Resources How are you going to achieve your aims?	Before starting with learning to read I willbegin with a few exercises to distinguish different surfaces and gradually develop~~ing~~ the sense of touch. ThenI will start learning the letters. I will divide the project in different steps. I will make a planning and divide the project. I will follow this timeline in order to achieve myfinal aim. As the material is a material that has materialized ONCE for anyone wanting to learn this. If I had some difficulty to choose the story as some were somewhat complex but I found one that fits what I have planned that I will be able to learn in this time period.
Verification/Evaluation How will you prove that you have achieved your aims? That you have learned what you established as a goal initially?	I'll take the infant story written in both Braille and ink. I will try reading all the text in Braille while a professional corrects because shewill have the written version. During the learning process every week I write a journal where I write a reflection on how I evolve. There will be a recording that will only end in demonstrating how to read Braille. Finally I will conclude with a reflection on how the whole learning process has been.
Decide on video and final presentation. Which resources are you going to use to create your final video? How and where are you going to upload it? How are you going to give your presentation? How will it be organized or structured?	In my presentation I will show the final production, which will be a video with the content: The reasons why we have decided to work this project. The difficulties I have found Conclusion/ what I have learnt personally and professionally. In the final production I will read a litle bit the story to a child.I am not going to read all the book because it is too long. I will get a consent from the parents to record the child. I believe that it is not necessary to many more recordings because it is a slow process.