Browsing by Author "Couper, Jacqui"

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    TEDI 2 Week 4 - Taking Care of Yourself
    (2019) Couper, Jacqui
    In this video, Jacqui Couper stresses on the need for educators to take care of themselves because it is only when they do this that they will be able to care for and teach the children, as well as positively interact with colleagues and parents of the children. Using an analogy of plants and a water can Jacqui foregrounds the need for teachers to constantly refill their energies through healthy life styles in order to cope with the exigencies of teaching and avoiding burnout. She then elaborately discusses how teachers can do so. This video lecture 2/5 of week 4 of the course: Educating Deaf Children: Becoming an Empowered Teacher.
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    TEDI 4 Week 1 - Facilitating Learning as a Caregiver
    (2019-06-01) Couper, Jacqui
    In this video, Jacqui Cooper talks about the role of the carer who cares for a child with intellectual disability. She discusses the different kinds of carers (health workers, neighbours, relatives, etc.) and their role in caring and advocating for the rights of children with disabilities. She talks about how people without disabilities can provide care for children with disabilities, through feeding and physical care as well as advocacy and awareness-raisining. She also speaks about the importance of attitude and body language in providing holistic care for children with disabilities.
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    TEDI 4 Week 2 - Lifelong Learning
    (2019-06-01) Couper, Jacqui
    In this video, Jacqui Cooper discusses life-long learning. She discusses the roles and functions of the brain in learning, using the extended metaphor of the brain as the conductor of the body's 'orchestra'. She discusses the structure of the brain and its various learning centres. She goes into depth about the learning and emotion centres in the brain, their proximity and similarity, and therefore the importance of creating emotionally supportive learning environments to facilitate learning, and the implications this has on teachers and other learning professionals in terms of the need to develop a specific learning culture and approach that facilitates learning. She discusses brain plasticity, how it is particularly high during early childhood and how this plasticity can support learning amongst all children, particularly for children with disabilities.
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    TEDI 4 Week 4 - Caring for the care-giver
    (2019-06-01) Couper, Jacqui
    In this video, Jacqui Cooper discusses caring for the carer of children with severe to profound intellectual disabilities. Jacqui discusses the importance of supporting carers and care-workers, given the rates of mental health problems (such as depression) in society. She talks about the importance of authentic self-care and discusses some strategies for effective self-care, both as individuals or as part of a work team, acknowledging the emotional and physical burden of care work on the caregiver and the need for care workers to renew their energy to avoid compassion fatigue or burn-out. She discusses the importance of shared goals within a care team to promote a shared culture and acknowledgement of the need for self-care. She closes with advocating for the importance of developing cultures of self-care and mutual care within the workplace.