Neurodiversity
A neurodivergent spectrum affecting one's sensory world, emotional regulation, communication, and social interaction preferences.
What is Autism?
Providing varied means of engagement, representation, and action & expression.
What are the three principles of UDL?
An acronym for someone who is learning English as a second or additional language.
What are ESOL/EAL/ESL/ELL?
When immigrants choose (or are forced) to replace their past experiences with their new experiences to identify with their new culture.
What is assimilation?
A neurodivergent trait that alters the executive functioning of the brain, resulting in varied forms of physical and mental hyperactivity.
What is ADHD?
That all learners learn better when there are options provided in the classroom as a result of attempting to suit a particular learner's needs.
What is the basis or underlying principle of UDL?
Only 40.3% of adults in New Zealand are proficient at reading and writing at Level 3 or higher.
What is the current literacy rate in New Zealand?
Alienation from a traditional culture or a dominant culture through exclusion or withdrawal.
What is marginalisation?
All students are engaged and achieve through being present, participating, learning, and belonging.
What is inclusive education?
Creating goals and scaffolding challenges; fostering collaboration; providing mastery-oriented feedback; using reflection questions; and providing useful resources, for example.
What is options for "Sustaining effort and persistence" (multiple means of engagement)?
An approach that provides explicit, systematic, and sequential teaching of literacy at multiple levels.
What is structured literacy?
The Mangere Refugee Resettlement Centre, Auckland, New Zealand.
What is the place where refugees first go when they arrive in New Zealand.
The ability of the nervous system to change its activity in response to intrinsic or extrinsic stimuli.
What is neuroplasticity?
Providing digital text and using videos with closed captions, for example.
What is "providing options for perception" (multiple means of representation)?
When an English language learner goes through a period of cognitive dissonance resulting in a feeling of disorientation or being at a loss for words before coming to terms with their new language skills.
What is the silent period?
Accepting 1500 individuals per year.
What is the New Zealand yearly refugee quota?