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Instructions
- Keep instructions clear, simple and unambiguous highlighting essential content and removing distracting information.
- Be prepared to repeat any instructions.
Learning styles/Metacognitive strategies
- Promote metacognitive talk- talking through your thought processes. Activate prior knowledge as a foundation for new learning.
- Provide opportunities for the learner to share their learning and explicitly model their own strategies. Allow time for structured reflection to evaluate if the strategy was successful.
Assessment
- Use a range of formative and summative assessment strategies to identify gaps in learning
Groupings/positioning in the classroom
- Flexible temporary grouping formed for explicit purpose, encouraging collaborative learning.
- Ensure child/young person can clearly see the board.
Use of technology
- Instructional APPs e.g. that provide opportunities to practise wide range of skills
- Assistive technology - dictation, speech to text, accessibility features, voice access.
Scaffolding
- Visual, verbal and written scaffolding which is gradually is removed to encourage independence.
Relationships
- Create supportive and collaborative classroom where mistakes are recognised as part of the learning process.
- Ensure consistency of approaches and routines in supporting the learner. Consistent use of positive language.
Overload
- Recognising and addressing overload e.g., allowing movement breaks