Special Education Process
Creating an Inclusive Environment
Differentiating Instruction
Behavior Management
Student Progress
100
the law that mandates a free and appropriate education be provided for all students with disabilities
What is Individuals with Disabilities Educational Improvement Act (IDEA)?
100
Make up 20% of the children in the U.S.
What is the children of immigrants
100
Before planning instructional activities, first determine the assessments that will be used to evaluate students’ learning and then use them as a guide for designing and sequencing the instructional activities
What is backward design
100
person-centered problem solving process that involves gathering information to measure student behaviors and plan appropriate interventions
What is a functional behavioral assessment
100
variations in testing administration, environment, equipment, technology, and procedures that allow students to access tests and accurately demonstrate their knowledge and abilities without altering the integrity of the test
What is testing accommodations
200
a multi-tiered identification and instructional model for assessing the extent to which students need more intensive and individualized interventions to succeed in the classroom
What is RTI/ Response to Intervention Method?
200
using expressions or phrases from one language while communicating in another
What is code switching
200
Giving students assignments in the same areas of their peers but at different difficulty levels
What is multilevel teaching
200
positive reinforcement technique in which students can do something they like if they complete a less popular task first
What is Premack's principle
200
students work collaboratively on open ended tasks
What is cooperative group testing
300
A team that makes important decisions concerning the education of students experiencing difficulties including teacher, family members, school representative, and when necessary the student
What is comprehensive planning team/ multidisciplinary team?
300
Teaching arrangement in which both teachers teach the same material at the same time to two equal groups of students
What is parallel teaching
300
breaking down concepts that students do not understand or tasks that students have difficulty performing into smaller components that promote understanding or mastery
What is scaffolding
300
system in which students earn tokens or points for showing appropriate behavior and can redeem those tokens for social, activity, and edible reinforcers
What is token economy/point system
300
students work on meaningful, complex, relevant, open-ended learning activities that are incorporated into the assessment process and linked to your curriculum and learning standards
What is performance/ authentic assessment
400
a civil rights act designed to integrate individuals with disabilities into the social and economic mainstream of society
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
400
Teaching arrangement in which both teachers teach different content to two equal groups of students.
What is Station Teaching
400
inquiry oriented, structured group activity in which some or all of the information and content used comes from resources on the internet
What is webquest
400
narrative of the events that took place during the observation of student behaviors
What is anecdotal records
400
statements specifying the criteria associated with different levels of proficiency for evaluating student performance
What is instructional rubrics/ rubrics
500
A philosophy that brings diverse students, families, educators, and community members together to create schools based on acceptance, belonging, and community
What is Inclusion?
500
the unstated culturally based social skills and rules that are essential to successful functioning in classrooms, schools, and social situations
What is the hidden curriculum
500
activities such as digital and video games, board games, role plays, and simulations that serve as assessment tools to use throughout lessons
What is academic learning games
500
a plan used to address the student's learning and behavior by changing the classroom environment to better accommodate the student's characteristics, strengths, interests, and relationships
What is a behavioral intervention plan
500
summative common assessments, usually standardized tests used to assess mastery of benchmarks in the curriculum
What is high-stakes testing
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