Inclusive Classrooms
This program involves delivering and monitoring a specially designed and coordinated set of comprehensive, evidence-based, and universally designed instructional and assessment practices to students with disabilities.
What is Special Education?
This four step model can serve as a framework for developing a program to prepare students for success in inclusive settings.
What is the Transenvironmental programming model?
Many of the principles of differentiated instruction directly align to the principles of this instructional model.
What is Universal Design for Learning (UDL)?
Parallel teaching, station teaching, alternative teaching, and team teaching are all examples of this.
What is cooperative teaching arrangements?
Summative common assessments which usually involve students taking standardized tests to assess their mastery of benchmarks in the curriculum.
What is high-stakes testing?
Inclusion is rooted in this concept that requires schools to educate students with disabilities as much as possible with their peers who do not have disabilities.
What is Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)?
In this intervention the special educator uses the curriculum, instructional materials, teaching style, and instructional format of the teachers in inclusive classrooms.
What is Pre-teaching?
This process for planning units of instruction and individual lessons allows you to first determine the assessments you want to use to evaluate you students' learning.
What is Backward Design?
This element of special education includes professionals, students, family, and community members working together to coordinate their goals and efforts.
What are Collaborative Partnerships?
Variations in testing administration, environment, equipment, technology, and procedures that allow students to access tests and accurately demonstrate competency, knowledge, and abilities.
What is testing accommodations?
Members of this group perform a variety of roles to support the special education decision-making process and to foster the academic, language, social, and behavioral development of students.
What is the Multidisciplinary Team?
The transfer of training so students use the skills you have taught them independently in their inclusive classrooms.
What is Generalization?
Using multicultural teaching materials and culturally relevant and responsive teaching strategies can best support these kinds of diverse learners.
Who are Students from Diverse Cultural and Language Backgrounds?
The general education and special education teach together in one classroom using an approach known as this.
What is co-teaching?
Students work collaboratively on open-ended tasks that have nonroutine solutions.
What is cooperative group testing?
An inclusive classroom will be made up of students with these two types of disabilities.
What are High-Incidence Disabilities and Low-Incidence Disabilities?
Coordinated services and activities and the interagency agreements and linkages that foster the transition to postschool activities.
What are Transition services?
An item, piece of equipment, or product system- whether bought, modified, or customized- that is used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of an individual with a disability.
What is an Assistive Technology Device?
Effective teams use this planning method to guide the identification and delivery of services to students and their families.
What is person- and student-centered planning?
Conducting ongoing assessments to examine and document the impact of your instructional practices on student learning.
What is progress monitoring?
These steps make up the special education identification process.
What is pre-referral, referral, eligibility determination, and IEP development?
Students should be taught this unstated, culturally based social skills and rules that are essential to successful functioning in classrooms, schools, and social situations.
What is hidden curriculum?
In this differentiate instructional technique, students work collaboratively with their peers to achieve a shared academic goal rather than competing against or working separately from their classmates.
What is Cooperative Learning Arrangements?
A multicomponent reading comprehension strategy that is based on reciprocal teaching.
What is collaborative strategic reading?
What are classroom-based assessments?