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
- 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.
Involve students
Involve students
Evaluate the effectiveness of all tools and approaches in partnership with the student.
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Gather useful data
Gather useful data
- 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 students' self advocacy.
- Support the student and whānau to lead and guide the conversation.
- Share together concerns, questions, and ideas.
- Consider any barriers to learning and possible solutions.
- Identify how solutions will be implemented and refined.
- 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
Everyone's In: An inclusive planning tool
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