Date
01 June 2023

Assessment and monitoring using a team approach

Suggestion for implementing the strategy ‘Identify needs and how to provide support’

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Establish a team

Establish a team

Take a team approach to providing responsive support.
  • Be guided by the student and their whānau.
  • Involve your learning support coordinator or RTLB.
  • Identify and connect with colleagues who have experience teaching students with Dyspraxia.
  • Consider connecting to external expertise or agencies.

Seek external expertise

Seek external expertise

Professor Amanda Kirby describes the role of the occupational therapist.

Video hosted on Youtube http://youtu.be/56WDucHDcAc

Share information using digital tools

Share information using digital tools

John Robinson reflects on the value of sharing information using the school SMS and student e-portfolios.

Take an inquiry approach

Take an inquiry approach

Develop a responsive evidenced-based process of working together that supports students' self advocacy.

  • Support the ākonga and whānau to lead and guide the conversation.
  • Work collaboratively to identify key learning goals, responsibilities and what success would look like.
  • Share concerns, questions, and ideas.
  • Consider ākonga strengths as well as barriers to learning.
  • Identify how solutions or strategies will be implemented, refined and reviewed.
  • Discuss how to assess learning in ways that work for the student.
  • Agree on how to stay in touch and share information.

Useful resources

Useful resources

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Allow competence – Accommodations and special conditions

Special Assessment Conditions are a necessary entitlement for dyslexic students sitting NCEA. This resource outlines why they are needed and how they can be offered to students.

Publisher: Dyslexia Foundation of New Zealand

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Succeeding at school: Accommodations for students with coordination difficulties

Possible accommodations that can be made in the classroom to support students with developmental coordination disorder.

Publisher: CanChild, McMaster University

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Assessment for learning

Leading local curriculum guide series on using the right tools and resources to notice and respond to progress across the curriculum

Publisher: Ministry of Education | Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga

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