Learning 101
Differences in learning based on abilities, interests, or experiences
What is Learning Diversity?
People that learn best through hearing or listening to the information in forms of lectures or songs.
What are Auditory Learners?
This provides adapted programs, extra staff, and special equipment or materials to help students with special needs to learn. (SE or SPED)
What is special education?
Physical, mental, social, or behavioral needs or challenges that affect learning.
What are Special Needs?
Personal incentive or drive to succeed, do good, or work hard.
What is Motivation?
the methods individuals prefer and find most effective to absorb and process information (exp. Visual, auditory or kinesthetic learners.)
What are Learning Styles?
People that learn best through seeing the information in forms of pictures and arrows.
What are Visual Learners?
IEP is for students that meet specific needs and need a specific education program.
What is Individualized Education Program(IEP)?
Students that need special education modifications to align to their abilities and potential.
What are Exceptional Learners?
Refers to a particular racial, national, or cultural group including there customs, language and/or values.
What is ethnicity?
different modes of instruction to match a student's preferred mode of learning, disability, or background.
What is Differentiated Instruction?
People that learn best through participating in hands on and physical activities to retain information in the form of projects, labs or moving hands.
What are Kinesthetic-tactile learners?
(ELL) Students that must learn English while also learning the content of their regular classes.
What is English Language Learners(ELL)?
Special needs students will at least be benefiting from the classroom if he/she can’t keep up with the academic class requirements.
What is inclusion?
Preconceived generalizations about certain groups of people ---- and prejudice have no place in schools or the workplace.
What is Stereotype?
Modifications to the environment, learning strategies, or materials that are made to help students with particular special needs succeed in the classroom. (exp. Blind might need Braille copies of textbooks.)
What are Accommodations?
A theory by Howard Gardner in the 1980’s about how individuals have a broad range of types of intelligence, each to a different degree
What is Multiple Intelligences?
Students with (LEP) have difficulty communicating effectively in English because english is not their native or primary or primary language.
What is limited English proficiency(LEP)?
Schools placing special needs students in one or more regular classes based on their expected ability to keep up with the standard curriculum.
What is Mainstreaming?
Hard to accomplish or achieve.
What is arduous?