Special Ed Law
LRE: a legal requirement that students with disabilities must be educated alongside their non-disabled peers.
What is the Least Restrictive Environment?
This aspect of differentiated instruction refers to what you want your students to be able to learn.
What is content?
This is a service delivery model where a general education teacher and a special education teacher share responsibility for planning, instruction, and assessment in the same classroom.
What is co-teaching?
A student with a learning disability struggles to answer questions during whole-group discussion. The teacher provides think-pair-share time, sentence stems, and visual supports before calling on students.
What is scaffolding (Gibbons, 2002)?
IDEA: a US federal law ensuring children with disabilities have access to a Free Appropriate Public Education.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
At the end of your unit, you have students demonstrate their knowledge with a presentation or one-on-one explanation. What aspect of differentiated instruction does this fall under?
What is product?
This co-teaching model involves students rotating through different stations while both teachers provide instruction to both groups.
What is station teaching ?
A teacher provides audio text, captions, graphic organizers, and hands-on activities so all students can access the lesson in multiple ways.
What is universal design and multimodal instruction?
A legal right under federal law IDEA ensuring students with disabilities in the U.S. receive special education and related services at no cost to parents.
What is a Free and Appropriate Education?
This term refers to using multiple methods of delivering curriculum (visuals, verbal, video, etc.)
What is multimodality?
This component of co-teaching focuses on both teachers collaboratively using data to guide instruction and differentiate assessments for students.
What is co-assessment?
During a science unit, students can demonstrate understanding by creating a poster, recording a video explanation, or writing a report based on their strengths and learning needs.
What is differentiated instruction and assessment?
According to Law, this only may happen after the support and services provided in general education are not successful.
When may a child be removed from general education classrooms to be put in a more restrictive environment?
During a lesson, you have students engage in discussion or draw pictures to check their learning progress. What aspect of differentiated instruction is this?
What is process?
This is identified as one of the biggest barriers to successful co-teaching, especially when teachers lack time to plan together.
What is the lack of shared planning time?
A teacher first models academic vocabulary, then guides students through partner practice, and finally asks students to independently explain their reasoning using content-specific language.
What is the gradual release model (Gibbons, 2002)?