Provide options for students to create, learn and share
Provide flexible options and tools so years 9-13 students can show their learning and share with others.
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Personalise learning
Personalise learning
Provide opportunities for students to learn in ways that suit their needs and preferences.
- Set realistic, ambitious, and achievable personal targets.
- Create opportunities where students can personalise learning tasks and projects to build on their culture, knowledge, experience and strengths.
- Discuss with students the different ways they can share their thinking and demonstrate understanding.
- Develop success criteria with the students and present them with clear visual supports.
- Provide opportunities for students to gain confidence using a range of media so they can select the most appropriate way to express their learning.
- Offer a flexible learning environment with a variety of seating and working spaces.
- Offer a reader-writer or assistive technologies to support success in assessments.
Create personalised learning and assessment pathways
Create personalised learning and assessment pathways
Create timelines, expectations and NCEA programmes in collaboration with the student, their whānau and their learning support team.
Design learning and assessment programmes to meet the unique needs of each student.
Support success in assessments
Support success in assessments
Consider:
- possible barriers hidden in the physical environment, for example: unfamiliar layout of room, lighting, temperature
- possible barriers hidden in the resources and materials, for example: cluttered presentation, hard-to-read diagrams, unclear layout, hard-copies only
- approaches to managing time allocations such as calendar tools and visual timers
- approaches to managing anxiety
- approaches to maintaining concentration
- negotiating breaks and extra time
- use of digital technologies such as text-to-speech and predictive text
- pre-teaching specific assessment/exam skills, such as how to approach multiple choice questions
- identify whether SAC application needs to be made for NCEA.
Identify Special Assessment Conditions needs
Identify Special Assessment Conditions needs
Special Assessment Conditions application – NZQA
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, handwriting difficulties might impair the performance for students with dyspraxia and large unfamiliar group settings might impair the performance of students that need stability and routine.
Support external assessments
Support 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-teaching specific assessment or exam skills, such as how to approach multiple choice questions.
Useful resources
Useful resources
Dyspraxia: Secondary school classroom guidelines
Strategies and accommodations to assist students with dyspraxia to overcome some of the learning challenges they face.
Publisher: Dyspraxia Foundation
Download PDF
Succeeding at school: Accommodations for students with coordination difficulties
Publisher: CanChild, McMaster University
Special Assessment Conditions
Information for New Zealand schools, students, parents and caregivers, and professionals.
Publisher: New Zealand Qualifications Authority
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