Macmillan Teacher Campus is a SETA accredited professional teacher training unit. Courses and workshops are developed by subject specialists with the objective being to empower, motivate and guide educators – whilst providing a learning pathway for continued professional development.
A wide range of curriculum aligned workshops are on offer – tailor-made and catered specifically for the individual school’s needs.
Here are a few of the exciting 2020 courses available for schools:
TIPS AND TRICKS TO IMPLEMENT INCLUSIVE EDUCATION
2 Days | 7 SACE PD Points | Teachers, SMTs, SBSTs and SES
- Understand that emotion is a part of inclusion I
- dentify the most important elements and building blocks needed to implement inclusive education practices in the classroom
- Reflect critically on your own perspectives and that of others with regard to inclusion
- Develop a broad understanding of the critical issues needed to be in place in a classroom within an inclusive education approach
- Apply the theory provided on inclusive education in the classroom
- Apply teaching strategies/practices for curriculum differentiation
- Develop appropriate intervention strategies
USING DIFFERENTIATED TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT IN THE CLASSROOM
1 Day
- Review the categories of barriers to learning in the South African context
- Learn to differentiate your teaching and assessment
- Create an environment that supports differentiation
- What you need to know in order to differentiate
- Tips to differentiate learning content
- Tips to adapt resources
- Three steps in planning a differentiated lesson
- Plan diff erent types of alternative assessment
STRATEGIES TO ASSIST LEARNERS WITH BARRIERS TO READING
Half Day | 5 SACE PD Points | Teachers, SMTs, SBSTs and SESs
- Understand the process of learning to read
- Identify where the learner is in the process
- Analyse specific concepts of reading where the learner is having difficulty
- Apply different strategies to assist the learner with barriers to learning to improve their reading abilities
- Adapt and include different reading and comprehension strategies in your everyday teaching
- Design and plan fun reading activities for all the learners in your classroom in order to create a love for reading
STRATEGIES FOR INCLUSION IN ASSESSMENT
Half Day
- Recognise the importance of inclusion in South African schools
- Understand and apply the principles of assessment and how they impact an inclusive classroom
- Determine barriers to learning, level of functioning and participation to determine support needs
- Develop empathy with learners who have barriers to learning
- Use various strategies to differentiate assessments for learners with barriers to learning
- Plan different types of alternative assessment
- Adapt their class assessment to accommodate learners’ various learning modalities
- Understand the importance of compiling the relevant information for a learner’s application for concessions
