Support understanding
Use a variety of techniques to support years 1 to 8 students to build understanding and successfully complete tasks.
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Maximise use of visuals
Maximise use of visuals
Visuals can reduce student frustration and support independence.
They also help students see what you mean.
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Use key techniques to support understanding
Use key techniques to support understanding
Support student motivation
- Select topics that fit students’ interests.
- Include some easy-to-achieve elements.
Keep language simple
- Be explicit and brief.
- Keep concepts concrete.
- Use vocabulary familiar to students.
- Accompany language with gestures, using hands, arms, and facial expressions.
- Use visual cues – illustrations or posters.
Break information into small chunks
- Break tasks into small steps.
- Give steps one at a time – use visuals to represent steps.
- Use digital technologies including: video, online games, and flip learning, so students can move at their own pace and revisit content as often as they need to.
Repetition is key
- Reteach and reinforce learned concepts.
- Teach steps in the same sequence.
- Offer multiple opportunities to practise.
Check in regularly with the student
Check in regularly with the student
Ask students regularly how they are doing.
Don't wait for them to come to you.
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Source: Ministry of Education | Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga
Maximise hands on learning
Maximise hands on learning
Chris Luke, te reo Māori teacher at Coastal Taranaki School, talks about students sharing the benefits of practical experiences and Māori achieving success as Māori.
Keep communication simple and specific
Keep communication simple and specific
Effective communication for students with FASD means keeping things simple, specific, and slow.
- Use clear language and repeat with less detail
- Use positive phrasing and avoid what not to do
- Avoid idioms
- Be consistent and repeat key messages
- Use visuals
- Give directions one at a time
- Give directions in order
- Ask concrete questions
- Ask ākonga to show understanding
- Allow more time
Source: POPFASD Communication strategies that work (opens in a new tab/window)
Use ten communica­tion strategies
Use ten communication strategies
Students may have behavioural reactions when they experience language problems.
Use these strategies to enhance your communication with all learners, including those with FASD.
Closed Captions
Next steps
More suggestions for implementing the strategy “Helpful classroom strategies years 1-8”:
Return to the guide “Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and learning”
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