Math is Math'n
Support needs in these areas can make math difficult.
What are working memory, processing speed, or language processing needs?
A structured way to categorize learning objectives based on cognitive complexity.
Modeling, guided, and independent practice. Also known as the gradual release model.
What is explicit instruction?
The stage where students are first introduced to a new concept or skill. Focus is on accuracy, NOT speed.
What is acquisition?
The ability to take in information, weigh choices and consequences, and make adaptive choices to attain a particular goal. Includes executive control, delayed gratification, self-control, and engagement.
What is self-regulation?
This form of knowledge is shallower than factual knowledge. This is associating to get ther correct answer. Students do not understand the meaning.
What is bare association?
The design of apps, devices, materials, and environments that support and enable a student to engage and participate in ALL activities for ALL learners.
This is defined by CAST and a goal of UDL.
What is access?
A sentence that does not have all of the components to make it complete.
Daily Double: What is one teaching strategy to help with this skill?
What is a fragment?
Daily Double: Revising sentence fragments, identifying complete sentences, unscramble sentences
The percentage of our behavior that is repeated almost daily.
Feeling tension or fear about math.
Daily Double: List 2 things that may increase/decrease this.
What is math anxiety?
Daily Double:
Increase: Timed drills, tests, and public correction
Decrease: Predictable routines, success with concrete materials. peer supports, gradual release model
Notes that disability is a natural part of the human experience. Respects disability, seeks to remove barriers, and proactively ensures inclusion of all humans.
What is the human rights model of disability?
The belief that students with disabilities are capable of learning and achieving.
What does it mean to presume competence?
This stage of learning requires the teacher to provide multiple opportunities for practice, such as timed tasks, partner practice, and immediate feedback.
What is fluency?
Goal-setting, self-monitoring, self-reinforcement.
What are the components of self-regulated learning when using SRSD?
Knowing how to perform a task with automaticity.
What is procedural knowledge?
Provides multiple means of engagement, representation, and action and expression.
What is Universal Design for Learning (UDL)?
This is the smallest unit of meaning.
What is a morpheme?
Cultivating this is an inside job.
What is presence?
Two skills that are not directly math-related but foundational for math instruction.
What are matching and patterning?
When lesson planning, we need to assess if what we are teaching is a ______ or a ______.
Daily Double: define them.
What is a skill or a concept?
The use of language that refers to an individual with a disability rather than a disabled person.
What is Person-First Language?
The temporary support provided to students that helps them learn new concepts or skills.
What are scaffolds?
The process of thinking about your own thinking. It involves being aware of how you learn, recognizing the strategies you use, and monitoring and adjusting those strategies to improve understanding or performance.
What is metacognition?
Knowledge of facts, labels, concepts, and information.
What is declarative knowledge?
May alter how a student is taught and changes to the learning goal or overall outcome.
What is a high adaptation or a modification?
Explict knowledge of the letter-sound relationship.
What is phonics?
We, as humans, do not distinguish between good ones or bad ones.
What are habits?
A math strategy with the letters R....A....C (not in that order).
Daily double: give an example of each.
What is CRA: concrete, representational, abstract?
Daily double: manipulatives, draw, symbols
A person with a hearing impairment wants to see a movie. The manager notes that the individual's inability to hear the film is a result of their hearing loss and the problem is related to their impairment, NOT the lack of captions or hearing supports.
What is the Medical Model of Disability?
A respectful way of referring to a person with a disability by placing the label first. For example, "autistic person."
What is the identity-first language?
This stage is when a skill sticks over time without needing to be re-taught.
What is maintenance?
Activate it, discuss it, model it, memorize it, support it, and independent performance are all stages of this strategy.
HINT: TRAP, POWTREE, FASTDRAW
What is self-regulated strategy development?
What is procedural knowledge?
What are low adaptations or accommodations?
One of the MOST important aspects of language and reading comprehension is defined as the words we must know to communicate effectively.
What is vocabulary?
This practice, the rapid switching from one task to the next, comes with a high cognitive cost.
What is multitasking?
These supports help students solve word problems and can be taught using SRSD frameworks. List 2
What are CUBES, CUBED, RIDES, or SOLVE?
What is Bloom's Taxonomy?
These are the different types of instruction.
Hint: EI, SDI, II
What are explicit instruction, specially designed instruction, and intensive instruction.
A skill that includes background knowledge that is needed to understand what you intend to teach a student.
What is a prerequisite skill?
The mental effort your working memory uses to process information and complete a task.
Daily Double:Label the two core components of cognitive load
What is cognitive load?
What are intrinsic load and extraneous load?
This knowledge allows us to perform a task based on what we know about the steps needed to achieve a particular result.
What are procedural skills?
Changes made that allow students to 'access' to content, but do NOT change the learning target or overall expectations for student learning.
What are access adaptations or accommodations?
What are matching, oddity, and generation?
This technique is used to minimize distractions and work with built-in breaks.
What is the Pomodoro Technique?
Foundational skill you need in order to count. List 2
Daily Double: define them
What are one-to-one correspondence, stable order, and cardinality?
Daily Double:
1:1, knowing that an object aligns with one unique number
Stable order: principle that says words must be recited in the same, consistent, repeatable order
Cardinality: the last count of a group of objects represents how many are in that group.
These are the most important things that every teacher should know and be able to do to help all students succeed (HINT: collaboration, assessment, social/emotional/behavioral, and instructional).
Organized into four domains: Collaboration, Data-Driven Planning, Instruction in Behavior and Academics, and Intensify and Intervene as Needed.
What are high-leverage practices?
The highest level of learning. This is when students can use the skill in a new context, adapt their knowledge, show flexibility, and demonstrate it in the real world.
This is foundational for lifelong functioning and is responsive to intervention (kids can learn this).
Daily Double: How do educators support the development of this skill?
What is self-regulation?
Daily Double:
What is co-regulation?
The why of knowledge that is multidimensional and relates to other things. This form of knowledge involves analysis, comparison, and classification. Looking at what things are and what they are not to form a broader idea.
What is conceptual knowledge?
Universal design for learning seeks to promote these two main goals.
What is student access and student agency?
This is the ability to locate, evaluate, use, and communicate using a range of resources, including text, visual, audio, and video sources (Erickson & Koppenhaver, 1995). It is a fundamental right and the collective responsibility of every individual. It supports the development of meaning-making across all human modes of transmitting and receiving information.
What is literacy?
Our brain's ability to focus on threats, problems, or what is not going well.
Daily Double:
List ways to counter this phenomenon.
What is negativity bias?
Daily Double: Gratitude practice, Reframing for positive, In the moment resets (e.g., 60-second pause, one student/one strength), Positives in the margins, Evidence of impact (list ways you made a difference), Limit gripe loops, media rest, boundaries (information limits).