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- Added: 16/10/2017
Our guest blogger Ingrid Frengley-Vaipuna explains the importance of identifying giftedness and offers some suggestions as to how we can support gifted and talented students in our schools.
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- Added: 16/10/2017
Use this NZC spotlight to explore the principles of Universal Design for Learning. UDL is an approach to teaching that helps educators plan and deliver programmes with all students in mind from the outset. Find short videos, group activities, and opportunities for personal reflection.
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- Added: 14/10/2017
The New Zealand Curriculum/Marautanga o Aotearoa acknowledges the particular needs of gifted and talented learners. It is designed to allow for flexibility of application so that the needs of diverse learners can be appropriately responded to.
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- Added: 14/10/2017
This guide introduces the UDL approach and illustrates the UDL Guidelines in an Aotearoa New Zealand context.
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- Added: 14/10/2017
This guide suggests tools and strategies to help teachers create more flexible environments that support all learners, where barriers to learning are minimised. There are also specifc sections on supporting reading and writing, and differentiated instruction.
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- Added: 14/10/2017
This guide unpacks what it means to lead an inclusive school where all students are supported to be present, engaged, participating, and achieving in ways that honour and value diversity.
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- Added: 14/10/2017
This guide helps you build an inclusive classroom that values the contributions of all students, their families/whānau, and communities.
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- Added: 29/07/2016
This resource has been developed to help schools evaluate and improve student wellbeing. It highlights the importance of schools promoting the wellbeing of all students as well as the need for systems, people and initiatives to respond to wellbeing concerns for students who need additional support.
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- Added: 29/07/2016
In 2014 the Education Review Office (ERO) undertook an evaluation of the extent to which schools were promoting and responding to student wellbeing in primary and secondary schools. This 2016 effective practice report provides further detail about practices in selected schools that promote wellbeing for all students, and describes how these schools respond when concerns, issues or events require more targeted support.
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- Added: 17/06/2015
Lynne Silcock, from the Ministry of Education, discusses inclusion in the classroom and what every teacher can do to assist more learners. Lynne talks about UDL, which is focused on developing curriculum materials to support all learners.
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- Added: 17/06/2015
Lynne Silcock, from the Ministry of Education, discusses how UDL and digital techonologies can support success for all.
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- Added: 17/06/2015
Learning facilitator, Chrissie Butler, discusses Universal Design for Learning (UDL). UDL is a framework for planning, teaching approaches, selecting appropriate resources and materials, and the way we design assessments. UDL ensures that there are options for all learners to have equal access to learning.
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- Added: 17/06/2015
Education expert, Martyn Rouse, points to the successes of inclusive classrooms and describes how these can be developed to provide the right support for young learners in this video.
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- Added: 17/06/2015
Education leader, Heidi Heissenbuttel, explores a new school model based on inclusivity in the classroom in this video.
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- Added: 17/06/2015
Rosemary Cathcart presents two decades of research on ability grouping. She looks at arguments both for and against grouping, and at various forms of grouping, poses some crucial questions for policy-makers, offers a re-definition of "inclusive", and suggests an approach relevant for Aotearoa/New Zealand.
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- Added: 17/06/2015
Dr Jude McArthur gives an overview of the research she and others have undertaken in the schooling sector about the experiences of young people who have disabilities. She connects the key themes to what school leaders can do to support developing their schools as inclusive communities.
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- Added: 17/06/2015
Timoti Harris reports on creating an environment truly inclusive of ability, ethnicity, culture, gender, and language at Otorohanga College.
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- Added: 17/06/2015
Alison Kearney outlines the ways in which students with disabilities can be excluded from school and within schools. In her thesis, she proposes how to effect change in schools across the country.
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- Added: 17/06/2015
This report presents the findings of ERO’s evaluation of how well 68 secondary schools in Term 1 2014 promoted and responded to student wellbeing.
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- Added: 17/06/2015
This literature review examines the current practices of schools, teachers, and the wider education system in relation to Pasifika achievement, as well as outlining the proven pedagogical methods that facilitate inclusion and lift success.
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- Added: 17/06/2015
Researchers talked with Māori students, who clearly identified the main influences on their achievement. They said that teachers, in changing how they related and interacted with Māori students in their classrooms, could help students succeed.
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- Added: 17/06/2015
Central Region Special Schools (CRSS) cluster has collaboratively created an extended Number framework and matrix that is inclusive of all learners, recognises progression and achievement, can be used for precise diagnosis and to inform the next teaching and learning step, and links to the key competencies.
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- Added: 17/06/2015
The article presents findings about ways to create culturally safe classrooms in New Zealand schools. In particular, it focuses on ways in which teachers and schools can create inclusive environments for Māori students. The authors remind us that all students benefit from being in culturally inclusive classrooms.
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- Added: 17/06/2015
The decisions made in schools focus on the diverse learning needs and achievement of the best outcomes for all students. How schools support students' culture and identity is central to students experiencing success and realising their potential.
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- Added: 17/06/2015
Strategies that teachers can use to ensure that Pasifika students are not silenced by indifference to them or by patterns of classroom interaction that are linked to European cultural practices. One strategy is for teachers to foster a caring and inclusive environment in the classroom and to use cooperative learning.
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- Added: 17/06/2015
A learner profile tells teachers about students. It sits alongside assessment data. It helps school staff to build relationships with students and to understand things from a student perspective. This can inform planning, classroom layout, and supports to enable students to participate and contribute in all classroom learning.
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- Added: 17/06/2015
The Government has set a target of 100% of schools demonstrating inclusive practices and improving special education systems and support. The Success for All resources can be downloaded from the Ministry of Education website.
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- Added: 17/06/2015
In this story from the Education Gazette, Principal Bruce Jepsen talks about the approach his learning community took when academic intervention alone proved inadequate.
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