Job Opening for the Mathematics Project at the XRCVC, St. Xavier's College, Mumbai
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From: Neha Trivedi <nehatrivedi@gmail.com>
Date: 2009/7/31
Subject: Job Opening for the Mathematics Project at the XRCVC, St.Xavier's College, Mumbai
Are you someone who finds numbers, equations and calculations the most fascinating part in the world around us? Did you always have a blank look when someone said mathematics is the most traumatic subject of study? Did you always think, if only I can find a way to teach you then may be you will think differently?
Do you now want to add an extra twist to this tale? What if someone asked you, are you interested in teaching mathematics to visually challenged students?
If this has kept your curiosity please read on.
About Us
The Xavier’s Resource Centre for the Visually Challenged (XRCVC) is a specialized support and advocacy centre for the visually challenged located at St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai. Our work is driven by challenging myths, breaking barriers and finding new solutions where none existed before. To know more about us you can visit our website www.xrcvc.org
Who are we looking for?
Traditionally school systems have discouraged visually challenged students from learning mathematics. This leads them to be put to a disadvantage in later years of their lives in pursuing higher education needing mathematics as a base. Over last one year the XRCVC has worked with mathematics training for competitive exams and has successfully had its students clearing entrance examinations for higher education courses in Management, Social Work etc.
We are ready to now launch a full fledged mathematics project and are looking for full time/part time professionals to take on the same. The role of the person would include a combination of these roles
- Awareness work with visually impaired persons, caregivers and schools about the necessity of mathematics training.
- Training and coaching of visually challenged students – school, college, and entrance exam batches.
- Creating of accessible material in mathematics.
If any or all of these tasks seem interesting to you and you want to explore this job please get in touch with us latest by 19th August 2009 at the details given below.
If you are interested but a doubt has sprung in your mind ‘I’d love to do this, but I don’t know anything about how to teach the blind’ we would say contact us. The ‘How’ is our responsibility, once you are keen the how will be taken care of by us
Look forward to hearing from you. Remuneration would be on par with qualifications and experience and part time/full time nature of the assignment
Contact Person: Dr Sam Taraporevala / Ms Neha Trivedi
Contact Details: XRCVC, St. Xavier’s College, 5 Mahapalika Marg, Mumbai 400001
022-22623298/22626329
