Inclusion Themes
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
inclusion
A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or using spoken or written language that may appear as an impaired ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations
specific learning disability
One teacher instructs the whole class while the other teacher circulates to collect information on students’ performance or to offer support, redirection and enrichment to individual students
one teaching/ one collecting data / helping
The cognitive, verbal, and nonverbal skills that guide interactions with others
social skills
The events, stimuli, objects, actions, and activities that precede and trigger behavior
antecedents
An individually tailored education
IEP
Students who have a hard time processing nonverbal, visual-spatial information and communication, such as body language, gestures, and the context of linguistic interactions
nonverbal learning disabilities
Both teachers teach the same material at the same time to two equal groups of students
parallel teaching
Individualized, brief, predictable, easy-to-follow personalized stories written from the viewpoint of students that describe social situations, the perspectives of others, relevant social cues, appropriate social behaviors, and ways to engage in and the consequences from demonstrating appropriate behaviors
social stories
The events, stimuli, objects, actions, and activities that follow and maintain the behavior
consequences
4 principles of Effective Inclusion
All learners and equal access; individuals strengths and challenges and diversity; reflective, universally designed, culturally responsive, evidence-based, and differentiated practices; community and collaboration
Characterized by difficulty identifying and maintaining attention to relevant classroom directions, information, and stimuli; affecting their school performance
ADHD
Both teachers teach different content or review that content or use different learning activities at the same time to two equal groups of students; then they switch
station teaching
A way to understand support systems and friendships and expand their social networks using drawings of circles
sociograms
An instructional arrangement where students work with their peers to achieve a shared academic goal rather than competing against or working separately from their classmates
cooperative learning
Partial or full time programs that educated students with disabilities with their general education peers
mainstreaming
Students exhibit a variety of behaviors designed to resist the requests of authority figures, often interfering with their school performance
oppositional defiant disorder
One teacher works with a smaller group or individual students while the other teacher works with a large group
alternative teaching
Students publicly praising their classmates for engaging in prosocial behaviors
positive peer reporting
The transfer of training and use of skills across a variety of settings and situations
generalization
Requirement that schools educate students with disabilities as much as possible with their peers who do not have disabilities
least restrictive environment
Students engage in continuous and sustained aggressive and disruptive behaviors that negatively impact others and that are not consistent with age appropriate norms and rules
conduct disorders
Both teachers plan and teach the lesson together to the whole class and blend their content knowledge, perspective, and instructional, assessment, and management practices
team teaching
Ways to promote friendships and community, address classroom social interaction problems, and ensure that all students are values members of the class
peer networks, support communities, and class meetings
A grading systems that involve giving numeric or letter grades to compare students using the same academic standards
Norm-referenced grading systems