Provide options to create, learn and share
Suggestion for implementing the strategy ‘Helpful classroom strategies years 9-13’
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Offer options for sharing learning
Offer options for sharing learning
Students with Down syndrome often enjoy drama and performance.
Grow their repetoire by introducing new approaches.
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Personalise learning
Personalise learning
Provide opportunities for students to learn in ways that suit their needs and preferences.
- Set realistic, ambitious, and achievable personal targets.
- Create opportunities where students can personalise learning tasks and projects to build on their culture, knowledge, experience and strengths.
- Discuss with students the different ways they can share their thinking and demonstrate understanding.
- Develop success criteria with the students and present them with clear visual supports.
- Provide opportunities for students to gain confidence using a range of media so they can select the most appropriate way to express their learning.
- Offer a flexible learning environment with a variety of seating and working spaces.
- Offer a reader-writer or assistive technologies to support success in assessments.
Utilise technologies to remove barriers
Utilise technologies to remove barriers
Introduce students to a range of tools and technologies they can use to express their ideas and tell stories.
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Source: Ministry of Education | Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga
Support success in assessments
Support success in assessments
Consider:
- possible barriers hidden in the physical environment, for example: unfamiliar layout of room, lighting, temperature
- possible barriers hidden in the resources and materials, for example: cluttered presentation, hard-to-read diagrams, unclear layout, hard-copies only
- approaches to managing time allocations such as calendar tools and visual timers
- approaches to managing anxiety
- approaches to maintaining concentration
- negotiating breaks and extra time
- use of digital technologies such as text-to-speech and predictive text
- pre-teaching specific assessment/exam skills, such as how to approach multiple choice questions
- identify whether SAC application needs to be made for NCEA.
Useful resources
Useful resources
UDL Curriculum toolkit: Building Flexible, Customizable Learning Environments
This resource was developed to facilitate the creation of flexible UDL instructional materials. The Toolkit software enables any curriculum developer or researcher to design web-based curricula or interventions — from scratch, as well as to retrofit existing curricula into a UDL-supported, scaffolded learning environment for middle and high school students.
Publisher: CAST
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- Support participation and build confidence
- Present information in different ways
- Support processing and planning
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