Support participation and confidence
Suggestion for implementing the strategy ‘Classroom strategies year 9-13’
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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.
Support students to tell their story
Support students to tell their story
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Offer quiet spaces
Offer quiet spaces
Provide opportunities for students to access best spaces for thinking, for example, a quiet space or a buddy to think with, or to wear headphones and listen to music or block out noise.
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Useful resources
Useful resources
Dyspraxia: Secondary school classroom guidelines
Strategies and accommodations to assist students with dyspraxia to overcome some of the learning challenges they face.
Publisher: Dyspraxia Foundation
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- Support participation and confidence
- Communicate and present information in different ways
- Support processing and planning
- Provide options to create, learn and share
