1.2 Barriers to Learning CCP Training Highlights JHS1-SHS1
At the end of this section you will be able to
explain the importance of knowing your learners,
Identify various barriers to learning
Discuss ways of reducing barriers to learning
ensure inclusive learning
Knowing your Learner
Who are your learners and what are the barriers to their learning
why is it important to know your learners
Benefits of Knowing your Learners
- Create a psychologically safe environment for every learner. Good rapport and trust between teacher and learners; learner and learner
- Determine each learner’s readiness for learning. Teachers who know their learners are able to make informed decisions and judgement about their readiness to learn
- Identify multiple access points to the curriculum to increase engagement and access point. Knowing the learners strength, weakness and interest affords teachers the opportunity to use varied strategies to meet the needs of every learner.
- Develop and demonstrate greater emotional intelligence in the classroom . Knowing your learners helps the teachers to emphasis with them.
Barriers to learning
Perceived Barriers ” Child as the problem
From a Particular ethnic group
Has an impairment
cannot follow instructions
Not accepted by others
needs special equipment and a special teacher
Systematic Barriers
- Poor infrastructure for learning ; Inaccessible to children with disability, Large class size
- School Curriculum ; Too rigid, Not adaptive to different learning styles., Diversity biased materials
- Teacher Training ; Lack of skills in inclusive educational strategies, Negative attitudes towards children with additional learning needs, Unconscious biases about diverse learners
- Lack of Parental involvement; Ineffective PTAs, Lack of knowledge and awareness of children’s learning needs
Inclusive Education
‘Inclusive Education is seen as a process of addressing and responding to the diversity of needs of all learners through increasing participation in learning, cultures and communities, and reducing exclusion within and from education’ UNESCO.
It involves changes and modification in content, approaches, structures and strategies, with a common vision which covers all children of the appropriate age range and conviction that it is the responsibility of regular system to educate all children.
Becoming an Inclusive Teacher
How do you ensure inclusive learning?
Application of universal design for learning (UDL)
Differentiated instruction
Universal Design for Learning
An approach that instructors can use to reduce barriers that learners face in learning situations and increase access to opportunity to succeed.
a way of thinking about teaching and learning that helps give students an equal opportunity to succeed
This approach offers flexibility in the ways students access material, engage with it and show what they know.
developing lesson plans this way helps all kids, but it may be especially helful for kids with learning and thinking differences.
Universal Design for learning
Multiple means of
Engagement; to tap into learner’s interest, offer appropriate challenges and increase motivation.
Representation; to give learners various ways pf acquiring information and knowledge.
Action and expression; to provide learners alternatives for demonstrating what they know.
Differentiated Instructions.
Differentiation means tailoring instructions to meet individual needs.
Instructions that provides multiple path so that learners of different abilities, interest, or learning needs experience equally appropriate ways to learn.
factors to consider in differentiation
- Content
- Process
- Products
- Learning environment.
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