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Stefan Woehrmann Date: Fri Jan 7, 2000 9:42 pm Subject: Re: Special Feature Posted: Sutton's Autobiography | ||||||||
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Hi Valerie, thanks for your friendly reply. >So it sounds like your students in Germany have asked you to tell them >about your life? That is a very nice touch...I can imagine it helps them a >lot... Yes of course - and they show up with all different kinds of subjects. When our class was on a trip for a week - we met girls from another shool for the deaf. You couldnīt imagine how important it become to write quite good German for the first love-letters. And yes - they are curious how I managed to learn signlanguage, how I feel about learning different languages - as well as very personal things - problems of my teenager time, problems with girls, parents .. We arenīt a typical teacher -pupil relationship. Thatīs the reason why we havenīt got any disciplin problems at all. Contrary to that I can burden them withlots of writing homework. And from my own learning experience I do know that I can learn so much better from a teacher who is a sympatheticpersonality, who shows interest in my work and who accepts my way of learning. As I told you before - my little friends asked several times questions concerning this woman in America who is in contact with me - giving me so much support in order to learn this wonderful SW -system. My pupils are very very interested to learn more about SW. In fact - during the pauses pupils from other classes visit us in our classroom - attracted by the SW -symbols and worksheets at the wall! They love to get deeper into it. Will share my classroom experiences with you. I`m so fascinated using SW in a bilingual approach that I canīt tell you what a great tool it may become to improove the literacy as well as Deaf pride. Thanks again for your effort to give us some more information and - very important to my friends - your wonderful photos !! They help us to discuss -to share our ideas - to get in contact about important issues of life ! > >There have been times when I have trouble explaining my situation, so >hopefully the little autobiography will help when it is done - > >But of course there are more pressing projects...such as SignWriter >5.0...introductions to dictionaries and so forth! > By the way- my dictionary is on the way! I feel happy about that! >Val ;-) > | ||||||||
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