Welcome to The Three Rs of Diversity
This website supports New Zealand schools in valuing and celebrating diversity by guiding them to:
- gain an overall understanding of the basic elements that are key to effective practice in meeting the differing needs of students
- develop a flowchart that reflects the school's unique strategies for identifying and meeting needs
- source strategies for consulting school staff and involving them in the development or review of the learning support processes
- ensure that staff are involved in the review process
- source activities that may be useful for professional development
- download examples of models, forms, and surveys that may be helpful as catalysts for discussion.
About diversity backgrounds the Special Education 2000 (SE2000) and 2002 teacher aide/kaiāwhina professional development programmes that formed the basis of this site, and the rationale behind helping schools to review and further develop systems for identifying and responding to the diverse needs of their students. It includes a section About the writers.
The model outlined on this website can be used as a vehicle for bringing together the essential elements integral to recognising and responding to diversity.
School staff and managers (and the wider school community where appropriate) can work through the stages of the model and create a flowchart that reflects the school's unique ways of identifying and responding to the diverse needs of students.
Getting started: the practicalities of facilitation gives suggestions on how to use the model described in this website as a guide while reviewing the school's systems.
Developing your model outlines the stages to follow to create a flowchart that reflects the systems in place, or to be trialled, at your school.
All references and resources contains a full list of all the print and website references and resources listed in each stage of the model.
Login to create a private area for your school where notes made during the process of creating your school's flowchart can be filed for future sessions.