Author:Viljoen, HestelleDate:2019In this week, the concept of universal design for learning is introduced as a way of approaching teaching and learning to tackle any problems of exclusion from education. Building on the lectures from last week, this week, experienced teachers ...Read morecb
Author:Viljoen, HestelleDate:01 Jun 2019In this video, Hestelle Viljoen discusses how visual impairment affects learning. She discusses the three ways it effects learning: through differences experiential learning (characterising how objects are similar or different); through the ...Read morecb
Author:Viljoen, HestelleDate:01 Jun 2019In this video, Hestelle Viljoen, a former principal of a school of children with visual disabilities in South Africa, discusses how visual impairment affects learning in the classroom. She discusses the different kinds of visual impairment ...Read morecb
Author:Viljoen, HestelleDate:01 Jun 2019In this video, Hestelle Viljoen discusses the ways in which children with visual impairment experience classroom education. She discusses the different kinds of visual impairment, such as central vision loss, peripheral vision loss, interrupted ...Read morecb
Author:Viljoen, HestelleDate:01 Jun 2019In this video, Hestelle Viljoen discusses two topics from the Expanded Core Curriculum for visually-impaired learners, namely visual efficiency and compensatory academic skills. Visual efficiency refers to making full use of the residual sight ...Read morecb
Author:Viljoen, HestelleDate:01 Jun 2019In this video, Hestelle Viljoen discusses different approaches to make both learning material and assessment tasks more accessible to learners with visual impairments. She discusses practical ways to adapt learning materials, particularly ...Read morecb
Author:Viljoen, HestelleDate:01 Jun 2019In this video, Hestelle Viljoen discusses approaches to making visual teaching and learning materials more accessible for learners with visual impairments. She discusses how to remove unnecessary images and replacing them with equivalent text ...Read morecb
Author:Viljoen, HestelleDate:01 Jun 2019In this video, Hestelle Viljoen discusses how to differentiate the curriculum in order to make it more accessible, focusing on classroom management and learning content. Hestelle explains the definition and purpose of differentiation and how ...Read morecb
Author:Viljoen, HestelleDate:01 Jun 2019In this video, Hestelle Viljoen discusses how to differentiate the curriculum in order to make it more accessible, specifically with regard to teaching methodologies and assessment methods. She describes how visually-impaired learners may ...Read morecb
Author:Viljoen, HestelleDate:01 Jun 2019In this video, Hestelle Viljoen talks about how to identify learners who may be experiencing vision loss and how to identify which learning materials and assessment methods need to be adapted in order to cater to the needs of specific ...Read morecb