Use flexible teaching approaches
Proactive planning for learner variability requires flexible learning approaches that cater for diverse ākonga.
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Promote inclusive teaching practices
Promote inclusive teaching practices
Shelley Moore uses a bowling metaphor to talk about inclusive practices.
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Develop your vision
Develop your vision
Jo Grant talks about the school’s vision and how using the Universal Design for Learning framework helps them achieve equity for all learners.
Cater for variability
Cater for variability
Examples strategies.
Flipped learning
- Offers pre-made or curated learning resources at different levels such as videos, screencasts, tasks and readings. Develop pathways as part of a whole unit or system, not on a day to day basis.
Tutorials or groups focused on learning needs
- Allows a focus on specific needs rather than a whole-class approach where learning is too easy or too hard for some. Smaller groups mean teachers can be more responsive to student needs.
Visible learning and student agency to support individual pathways
- Makes student needs and goals, and progress towards them, highly visible and easily accessible to students and their whānau. Gives students agency to take ownership of their learning.
Explore a flipped approach
Explore a flipped approach
Ashhurst School staff talk about how flipped learning gives them more one-on-one time with students, resulting in greater student independence and writing achievement.
For a secondary example see 'Going Digital' the Tamaki College Story, NZQA
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Use multiple approaches
Use multiple approaches
- social and collaborative learning
- student-directed/teacher-directed learning
- independent learning
- project work
- direct instruction.
Flexibility and choice is highly valued
Flexibility and choice is highly valued
Learners share why having ownership over learning pathways supports their motivation and engagement in learning.
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