Support participation and confidence
Support years 9-13 students to organise and manage themselves with a range of classroom strategies.
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Encourage sustained participation
Encourage sustained participation
Discuss with students what will support their participation and motivation.
Build these suggestions into your teaching practice.
- Establish clear classroom routines.
- Teach strategies to help students them when they get stuck.
- Break work into short manageable chunks.
- Give positive, timely feedback.
- Brief students about changes to routine.
- When changing classroom layout, provide a plan of new layout and when it will happen.
- Provide easy access to quiet spaces for working or winding down.
- Schedule brain breaks.
- Notice avoidance tactics or increasing anxiety, implement supports quickly.
- Offer leadership opportunities based on knowledge of student's expertise and interests.
- Connect learning to student's interests.
- Foster tuakana-teina relationships where students support each other.
Support students to tell their story
Support students to tell their story
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Develop social skills
Develop social skills
Some students may need targeted teaching of social skills.
For example, students with dyspraxia may have difficulty picking up non-verbal cues or may lack self-awareness of personal hygiene issues.
- Define one or more social behaviours the student needs to learn, in measurable terms.
- Sensitively raise self-awareness of personal hygiene issues.
- Share examples of good communication techniques.
- Use a range of teaching techniques, for example, structured discussions, social stories.
- Help students to generalise skills through role-play and video modelling.
- Practise skills in a structured teaching situation and then in everyday situations – the student may need help to do this.
- Check the student can use the new skills in different situations.
Offer quiet spaces
Offer quiet spaces
Provide opportunities for students to access best spaces for thinking, for example, a quiet space or a buddy to think with, or to wear headphones and listen to music or block out noise.
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
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Dyspraxia post 16 strategies
Table of strategies to explain and address or accommodate specific concerns for students.
Publisher: Dyspraxia Foundation
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