What makes a good mainstream teacher to a deaf student?
Many tactics that help deaf students are practices that all good teachers do anyhow. Some of these include: Speaking clearly, not talking too loud, repeating what’s been said, facing the students, using visual supports, keeping the noise level in the class to a minimum, including all students in activities, and checking for comprehension. Not very good mainstream teachers will constantly look directly at the deaf student while speaking, and call attention to the student by singling them out. Question: What about in-class support by an interpreter or aid? In this case, deaf students liked to have an interpreter when they were stuck or needed extra support understanding the teacher. The majority of responses were however that the interpreter was like another teacher and would over support the student by prodding, constant checking and correcting of work, and talking too much. Answer: The interpreter or aids job is not to re-teach the lesson or correct work but to make the teacher’s lesso
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