Support participation and build confidence
Suggestion for implementing the strategy ‘Helpful classroom strategies years 9-13’
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Give lots of positive feedback
Give lots of positive feedback
Social confidence and a positive sense of self are important aspects of adolescence.
Recognise and act on opportunties to provide positive feedback.
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Encourage sustained participation
Encourage sustained participation
Discuss with students what will support their participation and motivation.
Build these suggestions into your teaching practice.
- Establish clear classroom routines.
- Teach strategies to help students them when they get stuck.
- Break work into short manageable chunks.
- Give positive, timely feedback.
- Brief students about changes to routine.
- When changing classroom layout, provide a plan of new layout and when it will happen.
- Provide easy access to quiet spaces for working or winding down.
- Schedule brain breaks.
- Notice avoidance tactics or increasing anxiety, implement supports quickly.
- Offer leadership opportunities based on knowledge of student's expertise and interests.
- Connect learning to student's interests.
- Foster tuakana-teina relationships where students support each other.
Survey students about preferences
Survey students about preferences
I personally do a survey at the beginning of every class, every semester ... to get an idea of who is in the classroom to begin with and what they would benefit, or what they want to see in the class, what would work [and not work] for them.
Nancy Searcy
Source: Student profiles - UDL supporting diversity in BC schools (opens in a new tab/window)
Support students to tell their story
Support students to tell their story
Support students with Down syndrome to tell their story to others.
Be guided by the student and their whānau.
Closed Captions
Impact of effective support
Impact of effective support
Katrina from Onslow College describes how her school has supported to achieve her goals.
Useful resources
Useful resources
Positive steps for social inclusion
Read time: 8 min
A guide to supporting social inclusion.
Publisher: National Down Syndrome Society
Secondary education support pack
Twelve units focusing on different curriculum areas, learning skills, and social skills.
Publisher: Down's Syndrome Association
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