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Looking Beyond: Tips and Tricks of Itinerant Teaching and Contract Work
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The world of itinerant teaching is constantly evolving with changes in expectations, policies, and practices.
These changes may affect our students' educational setting and learning environment, resulting in how we
approach instruction. Join us as we discuss looking beyond the tips and tricks of itinerant teaching. Explore the
possibilities of expanding your instructional services into contract work and additional opportunities to serve
students with visual impairments, including blindness and deaf-blindness. From this discussion, you will gain
an understanding of the lessons we've learned along our journey as independent contractors in the field of
visual impairment across a variety of systems and how these experiences may help you
decide to expand your current service provider options.
Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will learn about the unique and foundational aspects of the itinerant teaching model and
how vision impairment professionals have adapted to this teaching model to serve the students they
work with.
2. Participants will learn about the emerging need for independent contractors for children and students
with visual impairment in charter schools, regional centers, non-profit, and other institutions.
3. Participants will learn how they can expand their current use of effective organizational strategies for
planning, scheduling, documenting, and communicating using traditional and electronic methods, to
help them decide if independent contract work may be a good fit.
1 ACVREP Credit
Available
Speakers: Patricia Camarillo, NBCT/TSVI, and Jamie Maxfield, O&M,
Fresno Unified School District, Fresno, California
Patricia Camarillo is a Teacher of the Visually Impaired for over 20 years and achieved National
Board Certification in 2021 in Exceptional Needs. She has worked in an itinerant capacity for over
90% of her teaching career and holds teaching credentials in Multiple Subjects, Visual Impairment,
Orthopedic Impairment, and Early Childhood Special Education, including certificates in Assistive
Technology from CSUN and UIC, Chicago. Over the last 6 years, she has worked in a part-time
capacity as an independent contractor for charter schools, non-profits, and regional centers in
California.
Jamie Maxfield is an Orientation & Mobility Specialist for students with visual impairments in Fresno
Unified School District. After having her three daughters, Jamie returned to school in 2010 to pursue
a Master's Degree in Orientation & Mobility from San Francisco State University, graduating in 2012.
She has worked in a wide variety of settings, including: school districts, county office of education, CA
Department of Rehabilitation, private schools, charter schools, contract work, and with ages ranging
from pre-K to adults. Jamie is passionate about collaboration and working together to find the whole
child perspective for each student.
