Browsing by Author "Verhoef, Suna"

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    TEDI 3 Week 1 - Creating an Inclusive Classroom
    (2019-06-01) Verhoef, Suna
    In this video, Suna Verhoef, an educator at a school for visually-impaired children in Worcester, South Africa, discusses how to make classrooms inclusive of learners with visual impairments. She stresses the importance of immediate action to include learners with visual impairments in classroom teaching, and discusses the importance of attitude, awareness and adopting a growth mindset in preparing teachers to allow them to support children in their learning. She discusses the importance of connecting with the children in the classroom, to develop strategies and plans to include them in the curriculum. She also discusses the importance of discussing empathy and kindness with the sighted learners in the classroom to encourage inclusion and collaborative learning. She then discusses how to prepare the classroom for inclusion, from controlling light levels and reducing glare and organising appropriate seating for learners with visual impairments. Lastly, she stresses the importance of flexibility and creativity in reorganising teaching and the teaching space to best incorporate all kinds of learners.
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    TEDI 3 Week 2 - Recreation and Leisure
    (2019-06-01) Verhoef, Suna
    In this video, Suna Verhoef discuses the importance of including recreation in the curriculum, particularly for disabled children and teenagers who are at an elevated risk of ill health and obesity. Suna discusses the importance of extra-curricular activities in schooling, and how inclusive educators should make efforts to include visually-impaired learners in sporting and cultural activities. Suna shares examples of traditional sports (such as rock-climbing rowing) and innovative new sports (such as Goalball and Blind Cricket) that visually-impaired learners can participate in. She discusses the ways in which visually-impaired people already compete in national and international events. She closes by discussing how to introduce hesitant or nervous learners to these sports, as well as other extra-curricular activities such as clubs, societies and music bands.
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    TEDI 3 Week 3 - Providing Learning and Teaching Support Material Creatively
    (2019-06-01) Verhoef, Suna
    In this video, Suna Verhoef discusses providing Learning and Teaching Support Material in a creative way. She discusses her own experiences with a lack of specialised training for educating learners with visual disabilities, and her experiences with engaging with the Expanded Core Curriculum in her class with her learners. She discusses her experience in adjusting a class on the trans-Saharan trade routes to include learning support materials that would cater for children with visual disabilities, including the use of physical props, sound clips of appropriate audio, and physical learning activities such as roleplay. She discusses how the Expanded Core Curriculum provided a framework for reworking a lesson to incorporate life and social skills that made the lesson more effective and improved the quality of learning for her students.
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    TEDI 3 Week 4 - Broadening Networks of Support
    (2019-06-01) Verhoef, Suna
    In this video, Suna Verhoef discusses the role of social media in broadening networks of support. She discusses the role and importance of networks of social support in promoting mutual supportive relationships that can support visually-impaired individuals in accessing services, socialise, and participate in broader society. She discusses how screen readers and other accessibility software can allow people with visual impairments to participate in the kinds social media platforms popular in South Africa (particularly Whatsapp, Twitter, and Facebook). She discusses how social media is used to access information and promote awareness of the kinds of issues people with visual impairments face, and how schools and community networks can create social media networks and groups that can provide mutual support and information. She mentions several content creators who are produced by or focus on people with visual impairments.