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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
January
Glass Siblings – an informative webinar on the “glass child” as “a sibling who has a brother or sister who requires ongoing attention and care above and beyond.
Louise van den Berg
Event Info
Details of the webinar will be communicated at a later date
22
February
Individual Learning Plans – a webinar discussing individualized learning plans in order to help children who are experiencing difficulties to improve their skills and knowledge at their own pace. It is a tool to help plan for meeting the special educational needs of a child and to aid effective teaching and learning.
Megan Trickey
Event Info
Details of the webinar will be communicated soon.
16
March
Reframing Disruption – This webinar covers parents who are now also working remotely from home too. The pressure is on! Not only do you have to perform ‘at work at home’, but you have 12 hours of your child’s awake time per day to manage in between everything, whether you like it or not. Have you done the calculation? That’s 252 hours over 21 days! How are you going to survive personally, professionally and, as a parent? To come out of this a hero is no small feat.
Nikki Bush
Event Info
Details of the webinar will be communicated at a later date.
10
May
Recovery curriculum after COVID – this webinar offers advice on how to implement a sustained recovery curriculum in your school.
Fran Chetwin
Event Info
Details of the webinar will be communicated at a later date
11
June
Vulnerable vs safe children. How can teachers make their students impermeable? This will be a live discussion.
Luke Lamprecht
Event Info
Details of this event will be communicated at a later stage.
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...
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