PNPS Facilitator Course

Our Story

COURSE OUTLINE
- Inclusive education and the role of a facilitator
- Understanding special needs
- Enriching learning experiences
- Supporting teaching and assessments
- Classroom best practice
- Navigating relationships with parents and the school

HANDS ON APPROACH:
As a facilitator-in-training, you are provided with work experience while receiving skilled mentoring within the school environment.

WHO DOES THE TRAINING?
Joanne Peers
BEd Hons in Inclusive Education, Guest Lecturer at UCT and MEd student at UCT
Joanne is Head of Inclusive Support at Pinelands North Primary School. She is a Capetonian and passionate about education and advocacy. Since 2000 she has worked in mainstream and inclusive schools. This has led her to an interest in researching a Masters in Education at UCT in disrupting the concept of quality in education and rethinking how children are positioned in the school environment. Her engaging and interactive lectures, coupled with Joanne's humour and dynamic personality, bring the field of inclusive education and facilitation to life.

WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM:
Ann Morton
Principal of Pinelands North Primary School.
Inclusive education is Ann's passion. She has spent most of the past 20 years working out how best to include all children into a mainstream primary school.

Amy Hayes
Speech and Language Therapist

Bronwyn Hiles
Academic Enrichment support

Caitlin Kitshoff Occupational Therapist

Lodize Deysel
Head Facilitator