Requires students to use higher level thinking skills as they work through the layers. Allows students to learn using many styles.
What is a layered curriculum?
100
Refer to the actual teaching supports and services that the student may require to successfully demonstrate learning. They should not change expectations to the curriculum grade levels.
What is an accommodation?
100
Enables readers to get a sense of what the text is about and how it is organized before reading it closely.
What is previewing?
100
EQ
What is emotional IQ?
200
Individualized Education Program
What is an IEP?
200
The basic layer which describes what all students must do
What is the literal layer?
200
Refer to changes made to curriculum expectations in order to meet the needs of the student. They are made when the expectations are beyond the students level of ability
What is a modification?
200
Creating a synopsis of a selection's main argument; in your own words and in a condensed form
What are the focuses of the child's learning over the upcoming year?
300
The layer which asks students to summarize, contrast, explain, find two examples?
What is the interpretive layer?
300
Taped books, additional time, preferred seating, oral reports
What are examples of accommodations?
300
Exploring likenesses and differences between texts to understand them better
What is comparing and contrasting?
300
Speaking well of those who are not present
What is "honor the absent"?
400
IEP team: Special Ed teacher, Regular Ed teacher, Principal, student, parent/guardian, OT/PT, speech, and other service providers
Who determines eligibility for an IEP?
400
*Gives students options since they do not all learn in the same way.
*General behavior problems are reduced in this type of classroom because students feel in control.
*It can be individualized.
*You CAN reach all the varieties of students that sit in your classroom.
What are benefits from a layered curriculum?
400
•withdrawal for specific skills
•include student in same activity but individualize the expectations and materials
•student is involved in same theme/unit but provide different task and expectations
What are examples of modifications?
400
Visual representation of the material a student is learning
What is a graphic organizer?
400
Students talking to another pod.
What is inter-podding?
500
IDEA: Special Education and related services should be designed to meet the unique learning needs of eligible children with disabilities preschool through 21.
What is Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
500
The highest layer which asks students what do you think about, prove, apply, what if, what would you do, evaluate, or how would this be different if?
What is the applied layer?
500
Refer to skills or techniques used to assist in learning:•highlighting
•color coding
•memory joggers
•visual cues
•number lines
•alphabet strips
•flip chart
•organization/transition cards
What is a strategy?
500
Diagrams which are specially designed to show all possible logical relations between sets..an example of a graphic organizer
What is Venn Diagram?
500
Being present in the moment; listening to understand; not thinking.