Johnathan Paoli
The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu), in conjunction with Bona Africa kicked off a workshop on coding and robotics for the visually impaired at the Birchwood Hotel and OR Tambo Conference Centre in Boksburg, on Thursday.
This forms part of the Teacher Union Collaboration (TUC) programme with other unions in education to complement the Department of Basic Education in training teachers on skills for a changing world.
TUC has partnered with Bona Africa to train educators teaching visually impaired and blind learners in coding and robotics. This initiative comes after almost 16 000 teachers in mainstream schools were trained in 2022.
SADTU through its Curtis Nkondo Professional Development Institute and Ubuntu Africa is training teachers from schools for the visually impaired across all nine provinces in a series of 16 workshops during September with the aim of reaching 600 teachers.
SADTU General-Secretary, Mugwena Maluleke, said that the
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