Inclusive Education

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Inclusive education means that all students attend regular classes and are supported to learn, contribute and participate in all aspects of the life of the school. Is this happening in all schools?

The journey to becoming an inclusive school may be long and challenging at times, but ultimately this journey can strengthen a school community and benefit ALL children.

Learn how to make your school more inclusive for all those who inhabit it.

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In this presentation Michael will provide a general overview of the African Leadership Academy’s unique approach to accelerating growth in promising young Africans who are demonstrating the potential to be tomorrow’s change-makers.

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Technology can offer educators a world of assistance and aid the teaching process.

Learn how some innovations are revolutionising the way students learn.

Speaker: Tamryn Smitt, Product Manager, Edit Micro Systems

Many students with learning disabilities lack confidence in their abilities to study compared to their able bodied peers.

Learn how to inspire students to achive their best in their schooling careers and inspire them to accomplish anything they set their minds to.

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Efforts to expand enrolment must be accompanied by policies to enhance educational quality at all levels, in formal and in non-formal settings.

This can be driven through an inclusive curriculum. The curriculum has an instrumental role to play in fostering tolerance and promoting human rights and is a powerful tool for transcending cultural, religious and other differences. Learn from the journey of Ned Doman High school's shift from a mainstream school to a full service school (inclusive school).

Speaker: Gwynne Philander, Principal, Ned Doman High School

Online, Language-Based Literacy Intervention: A description of three clinical cases.

Learn how reading barriers seldom present in a pure form and how co-morbid conditions such as pervasive developmental disorder, dyspraxia, anxiety and ADHD can complicate intervention and why it is important to provide intensive, target-specific reading intervention to “wire up the reading circuitry” in the brain.

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Online, Language-Based Literacy Intervention: A description of three clinical cases.

Learn how reading barriers seldom present in a pure form and how co-morbid conditions such as pervasive developmental disorder, dyspraxia, anxiety and ADHD can complicate intervention and why it is important to provide intensive, target-specific reading intervention to “wire up the reading circuitry” in the brain.

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Research has shown that as many as 1 in 5 individuals have some form of dyslexia – many of whom are undiagnosed and struggling with reading and writing every day in classrooms around the world.

This workshop will give educators (and parents) the knowledge needed to support learners with dyslexia and dyscalculia in their schools.

Speaker: Tamryn Smit , Product manager, Edit Microsystems

The issue of educational quality is the uppermost ingredient in a range of interventions based on school improvement methodology, especially in disadvantaged schools.

However, research clearly shows that after 20 years of development learner achievement is still under scrutiny and remains a challenge.

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What are some of the innovative ways by which you can achieve inclusivity in your classroom? From the Ashoka Changemaker Schools network, we present to you some of the clever ways by which schools in the network are developing their classrooms as inclusive spaces - towards actively building skills of empathy, teamwork, leadership and creativity. Showcasing examples from Pinelands North Primary School in the Western Cape!

Speaker: Sanjana Janardhanan, Change Manager, Youth Years, Ashoka Innovators for the Public

Technology has no magic in and of itself. Thinking that simply supplying technology such as tablets to learners will solve problems is as naïve as believing that a better ballpoint pen will improve the education outcomes.

There must be a detailed plan and design of the technology-enabled programme, and only then should the technology be decided on – with a focus on how this will improve the current situation.

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This session will offer key tips on how to make your school a safer environment for those who work and learn in it.
Speaker: Fortinet representative