Remedial & Special education blog

This is a question which we regularly have submitted to our “Ask RemSpecED” column and it is one that needs to be approached on a case-by-case scenario.

One of the discussion board scenarios we have on the RemSpecED Facebook group is as follows:

My daughter has been in a very good remedial school for the past 2 and a half years, and the school has recommended that she is ready to mainstream for grade 6. Though we are all a little anxious this is a very exciting time. She is still struggling a bit with working fast enough, but everything else has clicked into place! Lets hope that she can work as fast as the others next year! Please tell us your stories…

If you would like to contribute to this discussion board topic you can do so via this blog or via the Facebook group.

One of the most topical posts which we had on this site before Bundublog.com ran into its technical issues was a discussion around Outcomes Based Education (OBE) and how it had influenced learning in South Africa.

The general consensus from all parties was that OBE had failed South African learners and while it had merit as a system, the practical implementation had been far off the mark.

The question that was left hanging was what the alternative was and how do you implement whatever this alternative is?

Considering the popularity of the previous thread we are going to re-open this discussion subject and we invite teachers and education officials to comment on where education is headed over the next decade and how this will impact on schools pushing an “inclusion” policy and those learners who migrate from remedial to mainstream education.