Browsing by Subject "multi-disciplinary teamwork"

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    TEDI 3 Week 4 - Collaborating as an Empowered Teacher
    (2019-06-01) Daniels, Bongiwe
    In this video, Bongiwe Daniels, a teacher and principal at a school for the visually impaired in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, discusses how to become empowered to teach students with visual impairments. She discusses how to collaborate with other teachers to develop lesson plans and teaching techniques to support learners with visual impairments, and how they reached out to other professionals and experts in the sector for additional support, such as bringing in assistive devices. She discusses how they sought out training opportunities in order to develop their own skills in teaching learners with visual impairment. She explains how to ask the learners themselves about the techniques or strategies that would best support their learning, and how to have conversations with their parents to draw on their knowledge about their children's learning experiences. Lastly, she discusses how to reach out to specialists who can provide expert input to support learning, and of the importance of developing multi-stakeholder networks that include all members of the community to support learning.
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    TEDI 4 Week 3 - Building Relationships of Care and Education
    (2019-06-01) Isaacs, Aimee
    In this video, Aimee Isaacs discusses how to empower the team working with children with severe to profound intellectual disability in order to support learning. Aimee speaks of the importance of a multi-disciplinary approach to supporting learning, involving different specialists and caregivers in the educational process. She speaks of the importance of specialists consulting caregivers as part of their intervention, and the value of minimising the power imbalance between these groups as perceived authority and power dynamics can reduce the quality of information that the primary caregivers provide. She then speaks of the multi-disciplinary care approach as part of a holistic care approach, that brings together different skillsets and acknowledges different socio-economic and environmental factors in developing and implementing a care plan. She discusses the importance of creating mutually-empowering working relationships between the different specialists and caregivers.