Inclusion
Identification Process
Collaboration & Communication
Promoting Positive Behavior
Differentiation
100
A philosophy that brings diverse students, families, educators, and community members together to create schools and other social institutions based on acceptance, belonging, and community.
What is inclusion?
100
A group of professionals and family members, as well as the student when appropriate, who make important decisions concerning the education of students with learning disabilities.
What is a multidisciplinary team?
100
A teaching arrangement whereby teachers and ancillary support personnel work together to educate all students in a general education classroom. Educators involved share the responsibility and accountability for planning and delivering instruction, evaluating, grading, and disciplining all of their students.
What is co-teaching?
100
A collaborative data-based decision-making process for establishing and implementing a continuum of research-based schoolwide and individualized instructional and behavioral strategies and services that are available and used to support the learning, socialization, independence, and positive behavior of all students.
What is schoolwide positive behavioral intervention and supports (SWPBIS)?
100
A form of feedback that involves identifying correct and incorrect responses related to performance of a task/skill.
What is corrective feedback?
200
An individually based principle that calls for schools to educate students with disabilities as much as possible with their peers who do not have disabilities.
What is the least restrictive environment?
200
A multilevel prevention, assessment and instructional data-based decision model for assessing the extent to which students respond to a series of more intensive and individualized research-based interventions.
What is Response to Intervention (RTI)?
200
A process involving professionals working together to solve problems and implement mutually agreed-on solutions to prevent and address students' learning and behavioral difficulties and to coordinate instructional programs.
What is collaborative consultation?
200
A person-centered, multi-method problem-solving process that involves gathering information to measure student behaviors, determine why, where, and when a student uses these behaviors, identify the variables that lead to and maintain the behaviors, and plan appropriate interventions.
What is a functional behavioral assessment?
200
Visual, auditory, or tactile cues used by teachers to foster student learning and help correct students' errors related to a lack of understanding.
What are prompts?
300
Provisions of this national initiative have called on schools to restructure and coordinate their efforts and programs to help all students - including those with disabilities - have access to and succeed in the general education curriculum to meet specific learning standards.
What is the No Child Left Behind Act?
300
Conducting ongoing assessments to make data-based decisions regarding your students' learning progress and the effectiveness of your instructional practices.
What is progress monitoring?
300
A professional who helps transfer information between individuals who do not communicate in the same way.
What is an educational interpreter?
300
A form of data collection that helps identify the possible antecedents and consequences associated with student's behavior.
What is A-B-C analysis?
300
A consequence that sometimes occurs when using cooperative learning where some group members fail to contribute and allow others to do the majority of the work.
What is the free-rider effect?
400
A written, individualized program listing the special education and related services students with disabilities will receive to address their unique strengths and challenges.
What is an Individualized Education Plan (IEP)?
400
A reflective decision-making approach whereby educators implement educational practices and policies that have evidence to support their impact on student performance.
What is evidence-based education?
400
The extent to which members of one culture adapt to a new culture.
What is acculturation?
400
A plan focusing on how the learning environment will change to address a student's behavior, characteristics, strengths, and challenges that includes specific measurable goals for appropriate behaviors and the individuals, interventions, supports, and services responsible for helping the student achieve these goals.
What is a behavioral intervention plan?
400
A cooperative learning format in which one student tutors and assists another in learning a new skill.
What is peer-tutoring?
500
This law of the Rehabilitation Act serves as a civil rights law for individuals with disabilities and forbids all institutions receiving federal funds from discriminating against individuals with disabilities in education, employment, housing, and access to public programs and facilities.
What is Section 504?
500
This strategy recognizes the importance of the roles that students and their families play as advocates in identifying meaningful goals and appropriate strategies and services for meeting them.
What is person and student centered planning?
500
A form of written communication that allows families to learn about their children's progress in school and reinforce their children's improved academic performance or behavior in school.
What is home-school contracts?
500
Also referred to as "Grandma's rule, this type of positive reinforcement allows students to do something they like if they complete a less popular task first.
What is the Premack's principle?
500
A type of cooperative learning arrangement that involves dividing students into groups, with each student assigned a task that is essential in reaching the group's goal.
What is the JIGSAW format?
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