Date
10 November 2024

​​Provide options to create, learn and share

Provide flexible options and tools so years 9–13 students can show their learning and share with others.

Offer options for sharing learning

Offer options for sharing learning

Provide a range of ways for students to express what they know. 

For example, using multimedia, talking books, images, symbols, voice recordings and videos.

Personalise learning and assessment

Personalise learning and assessment

Work with ākonga to design learning and assessment programmes to meet their unique needs.

  • Create timelines, expectations and NCEA programmes in collaboration with the student, their whānau and their learning support team.
  • Create opportunities where students can personalise learning tasks and build on their knowledge, experience, and strengths.
  • Intervene rapidly to keep students on track.
  • Identify and minimise barriers to students successfully demonstrating their understanding.
  • Develop success criteria with students and present them supported by visuals.
  • Offer a variety of formats that work for the students, such as mind maps, videos, photos, and diagrams.
  • Provide opportunities for students to gain confidence using a range of media so they can select the most appropriate to express their learning.
  • Offer a range of learning support tools, such as, text-to-speech, graphic organisers and planning tools.
  • Use collaborative, peer mentoring, and cooperative learning models.
  • Provide constant and responsive feedback to monitor and maintain progress.

Offer authentic place based learning

Offer authentic place based learning

Morrinsville College is inspiring students through whakapapa. The cross-curricular Waikato Taniwharau programme connects ākonga to their river, iwi and hapū, with subjects focussed on the natural world.

Identify Special Assessment Conditions needs

Identify Special Assessment Conditions needs

Identify Special Assessment Conditions needs for NCEA assessments.

  • Special Assessment Conditions (SAC) can provide extra help for otherwise capable students to address barriers to achievement in assessments for NCEA or New Zealand Scholarship.
  • For example, large unfamiliar group settings might impair performance for students with sensory challenges and concentration difficulties.

Special Assessment Conditions application – NZQA

Support external assessments

Support external assessments

Support students to successfully show their learning in external assessments.

  • Offer students mock or practice assessments so they know what to expect and can become familiar with formats and assessment environments.
  • Identify possible barriers in the physical environment, for example, unfamiliar room layout, lighting, or temperature.
  • Support time management with visual timers and calendar tools.
  • Teach and practise approaches to managing anxiety, such as mindfulness and positive self-talk, and identify solutions to anticipated problems prior to an assessment.
  • Pre-teach specific assessment or exam skills, such as how to approach multiple choice questions.

Next steps

More suggestions for implementing the strategy “Helpful classroom strategies years 9-13”:

Return to the guide “Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and learning”

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