Provide options for students to create, learn, and share what they know
Offer students options for how they respond to challenges and share information
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Offer text-to-speech tools
Offer text-to-speech tools
Students describe the difference that having access to text-to-speech has made to their achievement.
Give options for student expression
Give options for student expression
Provide options for students to express what they know in a variety of ways.
- Create opportunities where students can personalise learning tasks and projects and build on their knowledge, experience and strengths.
- Develop success criteria with the students.
- Encourage independent and collaborative work in different formats, such as mind maps, videos, photos, podcasts and diagrams.
- Make learning tools available to all students across the curriculum, for example, text-to-speech, graphic organisers, planning tools, storyboards, voice recorders.
- Use collaboration, peer mentoring and cooperative learning models.
- Assess understanding and presentation separately.
- In exams and assessments, provide a reader-writer who reads the questions aloud and writes down the student’s answers.
Offer options for sharing learning
Offer options for sharing learning
Utilise technologies to remove barriers
Utilise technologies to remove barriers
Introduce students to a range of technology tools and assistive technologies they can use to express their ideas and tell stories. There are further helpful ways to utilise technology in the Tools for Technology Guide.
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Source: Ministry of Education | Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga
Utilise physical supports
Utilise physical supports
Invite learners to express their ideas in multiple ways. Consider students' interests, passions and what motivates them.
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