Learner: Alex Usudan          Learning Coach: Margaret Patrick       Date: 23.07.2015

Learning Area: Collaboration  Narrative Story

Learning Observed

Alex was a member of a group of 4 learners who were engaged in an activity where they had to reach consensus about placing statements about “promises” into categories under the title of agree, strongly agree, disagree and strongly disagree. An example of some of the promise statements were “ I promise to clean my teeth every night” or “I promise I will grow taller than my dad” or “I promise I will try had to learn” and “ I promise  to keep any promise”. This was a challenging activity as in the first round the learners were not allowed to sign/talk but shuffle the statements into the categories until they were all happy with the outcome. The second round the learners were able to sign/talk and had to justify why they moved and why they thought statements belonged or didn’t belong in the specified category selected. Alex was supported by Tracy Karanui a Speech Language Therapist during the activity. Alex was able to learn the signs for the 4 different categories but needed support to understand the statements. Tracy used a mini whiteboard to write keywords from each statement to enable Alex to understand and follow what was happening. Alex  was able to contribute to placing the statements in the categories but was not able to explain the reason why. She was able to listen/attend to their explanations and was accepting of people’s different opinions.

Evidence of learning

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Alex is displaying an increasing level of participation  and was relating well to the other learners. She was contributing her  ideas with 1:1 support from the SLT. She was making  connections with the other learners and  showing respect for their different opinions.

Next Learning Steps

grow in confidence sharing her viewpoint knowing that her ideas are valuable and she can help when solving problems. advocate for herself when she doesn’t know what is happening and seek help and clarification.