Shelanti Private School

Different learning styles for unique talents

What is Inclusive Teaching?

What is meant by “barriers to learning”
and “learning difficulties”?
The terms “barriers to learning” and “learning difficulties” refer to anything that may prevent the learner from learning effectively and reaching their full potential. They involve problems in the individual’s ability to process, store, or recall information. As a result, there is a discrepancy between the learner’s true potential and his/her actual performance in day-to-day activities.

What is meant by “Inclusive Teaching”?

Inclusive teaching describes the range of approaches to teaching, that consider the diverse needs of all learners to create a learning environment where all students feel valued and where all learners can thrive.
How do we implement Inclusive Teaching?

As an Inclusive Teaching school, we –

  1. identify the learner’s strengths and weaknesses.
  2. These strengths and weaknesses are listed in an ISP (Individual Support Plan) which is compiled for each learner and updated every term.
  3. The ISP is used to compile an individual learning strategy for each learner and is a working document. To support the different learning strategies concessions/concrete apparatus/visual clues/a scribe or writer will then be put in place.

The main difference between an inclusive teaching school and a school that does not have an inclusive teaching approach, is that the curriculum will be presented to suit the individual needs of a learner, not the learner adapting to the curriculum. This implies that Shelanti Private School will adhere to the curriculum standards of the Western Cape’s Department of Education, but with an individual approach. We, therefore, recognise that there are different styles of learning.

 

At Shelanti we offer an inclusive learning environment where we implement inclusive education practices for the ultimate learning experience. Our classrooms are made of a small group of learners to ensure that the teachers are able to give each student the attention and support they need.

What is meant by a remedial approach?
Remedial intervention is used when the normal way of teaching is not enough and the learner still struggles to read, write or do their numeracy. Remedial teaching uses a multi-sensory approach where all the senses are used to learn. In a mainstream school, the focus is on the visual and auditory input. Our multi-sensory teaching focuses on the following:
  • Tactile (using play dough, seeds, macaroni, beans)
  • Kinaesthetic (movement, handling items, acting, tracing, sorting)
  • Visual (graphs, colours, pictures, diagrams, mapping)
  • Auditory (talking, listening, recordings, music)
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