Appeal of Activities

Reflective Questions

How do you provide activities that are well matched to the interests of the learners?
Are learners’ interests and cultures utilised when designing lessons? 
Do good things just happen – are motivating activities timetabled across the week?
 Are multisensory approaches used? 
Is technology used to engage interest? 
Do learners understand the value and purpose of the activities? 

Actions/Strategies

Work through – UNESCO – Reaching out to all Learners – Guide 2

Give regular feedback and acknowledgment of effort 
Give general encouragement for communication
Use learner’s interests when designing tasks 
Use personalised support e.g. individualised comments or prompts to support tasks 
Give individualised attention 
Use facilitated playground activities to encourage peer interaction 
Notice and acknowledge effort not just success 
Use experiential or active learning to add variety and fun to learning 
Facilitate use of first language 
Develop positive peer feedback 
Gradually extend targets and expectations
Practise and prepare for change and/or new experiences

Further Reading/Watching

The Scottish digital voices (thescottishvoice.org.uk)