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02 September 2025
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Planning and monitoring using a team approach

Suggestion for implementing the strategy ‘Identifying needs and strengths, and accessing 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 and Resource Teacher of Vision
  • Identify and connect with colleagues who have experience teaching students with low vision
  • Consider connecting to external expertise or agencies. 

Gather useful data

Gather useful data

Build a full picture of your student's strengths, needs and preferences. Use this to inform planning.
  • Level of self-esteem and self-advocacy.
  • Ability, confidence and willingness to use technologies.
  • Mobility skills and ability to manage equipment.
  • Awareness of personal needs.
  • Awareness of fatigue and frustration levels.

Take an inquiry approach

Take an inquiry approach

Develop a responsive evidenced-based process of working together that supports learner 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 ākonga.
  • Agree on how to stay in touch and share information.

Useful resources

Useful resources

Website

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 NZ

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More suggestions for implementing the strategy “Identify needs and how to provide support”:

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