Understanding the Foundations and Fundamentals of Inclusion
What does LRE stand for?
Least Restrictive Environment
What does FBA stand for?
Functional Behavioral Assessment
Which type of grouping is better for cooperative learning groups: homogenous or heterogeneous?
Heterogeneous
What are formative assessments used for?
Collect data to support learning
Historically, what aquatic mammal was mistaken for a MERMAID?
Who are the members of the multidisciplinary team involved with the IEP?
The family members, general and special education teachers, specialists and sometimes the student.
Who should teachers communicate and collaborate with to support their students' learning?
Co-teachers, paraeducators, educational interpreters, and other professionals who work with their students.
What are the 5 types of study guides that can be used to assist students in reading informational text?
Point-of-view reading, interactive reading, learning-from-text guide, textbook activity, and reading road map
How can teachers measure perceptions of their inclusive classroom?
Use questionnaires and interviews of students, teachers, and family members.
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scallops
What are examples of high-incidence disabilities?
Learning disabilities, mild emotional/behavioral disorders, mild intellectual disabilities, attention deficit disorders, and speech/language disorders.
How can teachers help students make the transition to the inclusive classrooms?
By understanding their unique abilities and challenges, using transenvironmental programming, identifying and teaching essential classroom procedures and behaviors, helping students use their skills in different settings, and by teaching them to use learning strategies that can improve their organizational skills.
What principles can teachers use to differentiate instruction for their students?
Principles of UDL, and using research-based and culturally responsive teaching practices.
What are the different types of testing accommodations?
Presentation mode testing accommodations; response mode testing accommodations; timing, scheduling, and setting testing accommodations; and linguistically based testing accommodations.
Country singer who hosts "The Voice"
Blake Shelton
What are the eight areas where students who are gifted and talented may exhibit their intelligence and talent?
Verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, visual-spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalistic.
How can teachers foster communication and collaboration with families?
By recognizing and supporting their differences, gaining their trust, advocating for them and their children, ensuring confidentiality, meeting regularly with families, assisting in monitoring the medications their children are taking, resolving conflicts constructively, using written and technology-based communication, encouraging and facilitating observations at the school or via technology, and offering educational programs to families.
How can teachers foster their students' writing?
Make writing a meaningful, authentic, an integral part of the curriculum; use a process-oriented approach to writing instruction; teach students to use learning strategies; and employ technology-supported writing applications.
How can teachers evaluate the social and behavioral performance of students?
By using observational and sociometric techniques and self-concept and attitudinal measures.
Fact or Fiction
Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries
What is a Fact?
What is the effect of discrimination, segregation, and bias on students and schools?
Harming a student's school performance, socialization, self-esteem, and outcome later in life.
How can teachers promote positive classroom behavior in students?
Teachers can use relationship-building strategies, social skills instruction, antecedents based interventions, consequences-based interventions, self-management techniques, group-oriented contingency systems, and behavior reduction techniques.
What are the different approaches to reading?
Phonetic-based approach, whole-word approaches, language experience approach, and whole language approach.
How can teachers grade students in inclusive settings?
By considering and addressing legal issues, identifying the purpose of grades and the formats for reporting them, selecting grading systems that support differentiated instruction and content and communication, addressing the special challenges and situations of students and teachers, and using effective practices that support the teaching, learning, and grading processes.
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What is an Orca?