Advisory Teachers, Subject Teachers, Classroom Teachers, & Teacher Trainers
Managerial Responsible Persons: Nathalie-Lewi Dumont () & Hans Welling ()
Registration is Open!: Registration open ICEVI-Europe Teachers Seminar, pdf, 580kB
PowerPoint tutorial for Registration in English: English guide - registration form, pdf, 824kB
Accommodation Options for booking your stay: Hotels list for Teachers SIG, pdf, 224kB
Dear colleagues,
It is with great pleasure and enthusiasm that we invite you to attend the conference on improving the mathematical abilities of blind students.
The conference will be preceded by a dinner on the 15th of April, at INSHEA, a university institute which, among other tasks, trains teachers to teach students with special needs.
We look forward to welcoming you at the conference in Suresnes!
Hans Welling, President of ICEVI-Europe
Nathalie Lewi-Dumont, Board Member of ICEVI-Europe
Annemiek van Leendert, Conference Chairperson
Blind students encounter difficulties while doing mathematics. Their teachers need to have knowledge of both mathematics and assistive devices, e.g. braille, Text-to-Speech synthesizer and tactile drawings. For example, the teacher needs to know how to read and comprehend a tactile graph with your finger tips and be able to describe the mathematical basic concepts of the graph.
This is just one example. During the conference we want to map which knowledge and skills visiting and mathematics teachers need to support blind students in mathematics. Therefore, we need input from both visiting and mathematics teachers. We will put all this information into a manual that must be completed at the end of the conference. We regard this manual as a living document that will be updated at the next conference (ICEVI, Jerusalem 2021).
We warmly recommend you to participate in this conference because it is a great opportunity to exchange experiences and knowledge with colleagues.
15 April 2019 Arrival (Monday)
16-17 April 2019 Conference Days (Tuesday & Wednesday)
18 April 2019 Departure (Thursday)
15 April 2019 dinner at 19:00
16 April 2019 lunch and dinner, coffee break
17 April 2019 lunch and dinner, coffee break
18 April 2019 breakfast*
* For participants staying at INSHEA, breakfast will be available at INSHEA;
For participants staying at a hotel, breakfast will be available at the hotel.
The conference will take place at INSHEA in Suresnes, near Paris. The address is 58 Avenue des Landes, 92150 Suresnes-France.
For accommodation, there are 40 bedrooms available in the institute, INSHEA, and several hotel facilities are available in the neighborhood. Please be informed that toilets are available outside of the bedrooms in INSHEA.
Participants are responsible for booking a desired accommodation by themselves. In the event you wish to book a hotel for your accommodation, several hotel accommodation options are available in the town of Suresnes.
Welcome by: Nathalie Lewi-Dumont, on behalf of the board of ICEVI-Europe
Keynote: Theme of the conference by: Annemiek van Leendert
Visiting and mathematics teachers of blind students in secondary and special secondary education.
Exhibition of assistive devices and posters from participants.
The conference is composed of presentations, cases, posters, workshops and discussions. You are cordially invited to give a poster or paper presentation on one of the following topics:
When you want to give a presentation, you have to submit an abstract. The required word limit for the abstract is 250 words, written in the English language. You can download and complete your Official Abstract Form, DOCX, 62kB.
Please submit your completed Official Abstract Form before 1 March 2019 to . You will be informed about the review results and revision requested by 1 March 2019.
Your accepted paper will be presented and discussed in time slots of 30 minutes.
All papers will be included in the conference proceedings.
To register as a conference participant, you have to submit a completed registration form and transfer the payment for your conference registration fee. You can download and complete your Participant's Registration Form, DOCX, 65kB.
Please submit your completed Participant's Registration Form before March 1, 2019 via email to .
Please be informed that in order for you to be considered a registered conference participant, as well as, for us to reserve a bedroom for you in the institute, INSHEA, in the case that you want to stay here, we need to have received your completed Participant's Registration Form and Conference Registration Fee Payment before March 1, 2019.
Please be advised that for accommodation at the institute, INSHEA, there are only 40 bedrooms available and we will reserve these bedrooms for the first 40 conference participants who are considered registered, meaning those who have sent their completed registration form and for whom we have received their conference registration fee payment before March 1, 2019.
Our advice is to bring your laptop with you to the conference venue.
In addition to the papers presented, the proceedings may include the manual, recommendations and resolutions.
For further information and registration, see the website of ICEVI-Europe.
