Neurodivergent Educator 🇦🇺
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Lei :
I get the sentiment, but as someone who was not really allowed to express emotions in my family even if I had the best day ever or the worst I would still go to the straight face or where the majority were. Even more so if it was in a public forum
2025-09-09 14:46:11
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seamusevans :
Allowing space for transition shows real understanding of what learning looks like for each student.
2025-09-19 02:42:33
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Tashiwa :
Or just plain late all the time because “socks” or time lapses 🥴
2025-09-09 07:38:13
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Clouds :
My son hates mat time, he gets bored
2025-09-09 10:59:32
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Miss P :
Swear by soft starts!!
2025-09-15 21:38:11
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Em :
What would you do if a student was regularly late? E.g. we’ve set the soft start up and it’s been 20 mins, eventually have to get started with learning. The one student who actually needed the soft landing has missed it. Free choice options then don’t work (they feel everyone is watching). No matter what parent conversation happens the arrival time doesn’t change.
2025-09-10 04:28:20
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Just Alan :
If this helps my daughter, I would love this to be implemented! But I’m also not sure how to ask about this with her teacher and see some type of result. I often feel really bad about adding to the teachers load and want to maintain good relations with my daughters’ teachers and school.
2025-09-09 08:03:49
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dismysosig :
Great in theory, but as a neurodivergent female, I would have hated this and probably just put the emotion I think you want me to put. Also i know a lot of kids dont want to notice or announce ehat they are feeling, its uncomfortable and hard. as an adult, if I was expected to share my mood / emotion publicly in the morning, I would definitely opt out.
2025-09-09 11:16:40
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Jane Doe :
our state school has a wellbeing hub, big rec room with chess, games, art and craft, my asd girl goes there when the bell rings in the morning for 15 mins does a bit not craft and the wellbeing teacher transitions the kids to class they all walk together through the school and go to class. before we tried this we had massive school aversion and meltdowns in the morning.
2025-09-10 20:53:54
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Bb :
Most private high schools have Connect/Form classes where we do roll, notices, if religious school devotions/pray, and then I used to always do whole class activities that students could get involved if they wanted or sit back and watch. Things like Wordle, Geoguesser, Would you Rather etc.
2025-09-09 11:28:51
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AutismMum🇦🇺 :
We do soft start but not like that 😂 it’s great for my asd kids! They have 15mins and it’s time to get ready for the day! So they can go in drop there bags off get a book to read play a game play with toys play outside talk to friends talk to the teacher my kids had a chart of things they could do from 1-4 they didn’t have to get through all 4 but it was basied on there needs one of my kids is movement based so he would go unpack his bag talk to friends see the wellness teacher and then run outside to get his wigglies out
2025-09-09 20:23:42
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CLVR :
my son is an "in recovery" school-cant kid and what's helped is that he comes to school somewhere between 9 am - 9.30 am, signs himself in (he's old enough to go that alone) and then he just starts his lessons. we worked out that soft transitions made it hard for him because there wasn't enough structure. he's had a 10% improvement in attendance in one term after we worked this out. he's in yr 5. so greatful he goes to a school that supports him (and me).
2025-09-09 10:30:27
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Pen :
You’ve just explained my daughter’s experience with first 2.5 years of primary - her adjustment is she sits at the tables for first 10-15 minutes, drawing. Only then does she join circle time (or sometimes not at all) - she doesn’t like being so close to everyone else and having to sit still on the floor straight away. They also don’t do reading pairs first thing anymore (thank goodness)
2025-09-09 09:44:15
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Tulip_2909 :
I have one child for whom soft transitions make for a harder day. This is essentially because it then creates an extra transition between the choose your own and learning time. There are already a lot of transitions in the morning ( eg, getting out of bed, changing from pjs to uniform, switching activities at home such as breakfast/teeth/hair/activity if it’s not quite time to leave, home to car, car to outside, outside to classroom, unpacking to engaging in activity) and going from a chosen activity to a less desired activity is a hard transition. For that child it would have the oppositive effect. Also just the mental toll of decision making for that child (because that is also not easy for everyone). Sharing so that people recognise this is not a one size fits all.
2025-09-11 20:56:27
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