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Inclusive education focuses on integrating and guaranteeing special educational needs of pupils with various forms of disabilities in mainstream schools. SAALED offers a platform for educators to share knowledge and experiences as well as provide access to one’s peers in order to become better educators.
Learn By Doing
By joining the organisation you will become part of an interdisciplinary network of people concerned with a wide range of aspects of support for learning.
Mission
SAALED’s Mission & Vision
SAALED’s mission is to inform and educate teachers on learning and educational difficulties ensuring that all learners, with and without disabilities, pursue their learning potential to the fullest.
SAALED’s vision is to facilitate the promotion and implementation of inclusive education through information, support, collaboration, advocacy and training
Calendar
Our Upcoming Events & Webinars
26
July
SAALED AGM followed by an interesting webinar on Inclusion and Technology – Digital technologies have largely untapped potential for improving education and fostering students’ well-being and inclusion at schools.
Michelle Decker & Laura Jelley
Event Info
Details of the webinar will be communicated at a later date.
7
September
An informative webinar discussing cutting edge teaching inspired by Creative Arts in the time of the pandemic
Renos Spanoudes
Event Info
Details of this webinar will be communicated at a later date
22
September
Study Skills
Paul Tosio is the developer and director of the Easy Cheetah Study Skills Program and its predecessor The Juno Study Course. In this capacity he has trained study skills around the world with students from hundreds of educational institutions.
Event Info
Details of this webinar will be communicated at a later date
27
October
Taming the Teenager and the Betweenager – this informative webinar will offer advice on how to deal with moody and truculent teens. The presenter is a well known educator and ex principal of Cape Town’s Fish Hoek High School, who has interacted with thousands of teens during his career.
Gavin Fish
Event Info
Details of the webinar will be communicated at a later date
Please note that webinar topics and dates are subject to change.
Blog
Articles
Informative articles on education, learning difficulties, knowledge sharing can be found here.
Fall down seven times, get up eight: teaching kids to succeed (for parents) Part 1
By Debbie Silver Research that clearly indicates: When parents are involved, students achieve more, regardless of socio-economic status, ethic-racial backgrounds or the parents education level. The more extensive the parent involvement, the higher the student...
The Coronavirus Seems to Spare Most Kids From Illness, but Its Effect on Their Mental Health Is Deepening
Pandemics can be indiscriminate, with viruses making no distinctions among the victims they attack and those they spare. If you’re human, you’ll do. COVID-19 has been different, particularly when it comes to age. The disease has shown a special animus for older...
De-emphasizing speed in Math
Andi Behrmann Anxiety around Mathematics is defined as feelings of tension and anxiety that interfere with the manipulation of numbers and the solving of mathematical problems. Math anxiety can cause one to forget and lose one’s self-confidence. Decreasing anxiety...
Events in 2022
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