Browsing by Subject "learning environment"

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    Education for All Week 5 - Curriculum differentiation
    (2018-06-01) Stofile, Sindiswa
    In this video, Dr Sindiswa Stofile discusses her research into the ways in which learners with disabilities can be accommodated in inclusive classrooms. She focuses specifically on how curriculum differentiation can be incorporated in the classroom to avoid segregating children with disabilities from other children. Curriculum differentiation accommodates for differences between learners so that all learners within the classroom have the same opportunities for learning. Differentiation changes the content, methods and assessment in order to reduce barriers to learning and allows teachers to embrace different learning needs and allows different pathways for students to access and learn the material.
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    Relationships between the school-level and classroom-level environment in secondary schools in South Africa
    (Science Africa, 2011) Aldridge, Jill M; Fraser, Barry J; Laugksch, Rüdiger C
    We report research into associations between the school-level and classroom-level environment in science classrooms in South Africa. An instrument, developed to assess students' perceptions of their classroom learning environment as a means of monitoring and guiding changes towards outcomes-based education, was administered to 2,638 Grade 8 science students from 50 classes in 50 secondary schools in Limpopo province. In addition, the teachers of each of the 50 classes responded to a questionnaire developed to assess factors in the school-level environment (such as the adequacy of resources, parental involvement and collegiality). The data collected using the two questionnaires were analysed to examine whether the environment created at the school level was linked to the likelihood of teachers successfully implementing outcomes-based education at the classroom level.