Support participation and build confidence
Suggestion for implementing the strategy ‘Helpful classroom strategies years 9-13’
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Recognise strengths and interests
Recognise strengths and interests
Design learning activities based around students’ interests.
Build flexibility into tasks so students can utilise their strengths and preferred ways of learning.
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Foster confidence
Foster confidence
- Ask students how they like to learn.
- Use students’ interests and strengths as a basis for supporting them in choosing successful learning pathways.
- Recognise and eliminate situations that students may find difficult or embarrassing because of their physical, behavioural, or cognitive differences.
- Communicate success to the student, their parents or caregivers, and whānau.
- Recognise avoidance strategies and provide support and encouragement.
- Give students extra time to complete work.
- Make learning supports, such as text-to-speech and word prediction available to all students.
- Enable students to show their strengths and contribute their ideas in collaborative work, without the challenge of lengthy reading and writing tasks.
- Give prompt and specific feedback frequently.
Build peer supports
Build peer supports
Identify when students with FASD might benefit from the support or companionship of a peer. For example, this could be:
- a transition buddy who walks with the student from class to class
- a homework buddy to call when they have questions about an assignment
- a member of the sports team who will provide informal coaching and feedback in new situations, such as travelling on a bus for out-of-town games.
Help the student identify peers that they can ask for help. Make a diagram that illustrates who these people are in the student’s circle of support.
Foster inter­dependence
Foster interdependence
Psychologist, Dan Dubovsky explains the importance of providing a student with a "go-to" person to foster interdependence, rather than striving for complete independence.
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Helpful classroom strategies years 9-13Show suggestions for Helpful classroom strategies years 9-13
- Create structure
- Support participation and build confidence
- Support understanding
- Support processing and organisation
- Provide options to create, learn and share
- Manage successful transitions
- Teach students about alcohol harm
