Also known as teacher assistance team or child study team, this proactive and collaborative preventative problem-solving approach helps students behaviorally and academically in order to avoid a potentially unnecessary referral to special education.
What is preferral process?
100
A federal law guaranteeing homeless children the right to a free, appropriate public education in a mainstream school environment and seeking to eliminate barriers to their school attendance.
What is the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act?
100
This consists of:
1. Ecological assessment
2. Intervention and Preparation
3. Generalization to the new setting
4. Evaluation in the new environment
What is transenvironmental programming?
100
The following practices:
- tailor curricular goals and teaching strategies
- individualize and personalize the curriculum
- use backward design and a range of formative and summative assessments
- use curricular accommodations
- use individualized teaching/ instructional accommodations
- use instructional material accommodation
- provide personal supports
- address students' learning styles and preferences
- address students' sensory abilities
- consider acceptability
What are ways to differentiate instruction?
100
Teams answer questions, react to material, and predict what will happen next. Teams share answers and summarize the main points and assess each other's comprehension.
What are collaborative discussion teams?
200
A multi-level prevention, assessment, and instructional data-based decision model for assessing effectiveness of intensive and individualized EBPs. It attempts to minimize the number of students referred to special education by ruling out ineffectual instruction as a reason.
What is Response to Intervention? (RTI)
200
These students have encountered circumstances which caused them to have limited, erratic, or nonexistent access to schooling.
What are Students with Interrupted Formal Education (SIFE)?
200
This involves analyzing critical features of the learning environment and the key skills that affect student academic, behavioral, and social performance, interviewing teachers and students, assessing school and classroom routines and expectations in the special area classes, and determining differences between the new and old setting to determine where teaching and UDL solutions may be necessary.
What is ecological assessment?
200
Giving students assignments in the same areas of their peers but at different difficulty levels
What is multilevel teaching?
200
1. Establish the lesson's purpose by explaining its goals and objectives and their relevance
2. Review and assess prerequisite skills and activate prior knowledge
3. Use task analysis, and introduce content in separate steps followed by practice
4. Give clear, specific, and complete directions, explanations, demonstrations, and relevant examples
5. Provide time for active and guided practice
What are the elements of effective teacher centered instruction?
300
The following are a list of components of this type of model for assessing EBPs:
- universal screening
- evidence- based curricula and interventions
- progress monitoring to assess students' response to interventions
- student identification
- tiered instruction
- decision making rules
- collaboration
- fidelity of effective interventions
- consideration for special education
What are RTI components?
300
As a result of Plyer vs. Doe (1982), all undocumented students have the same right as U.S. citizens to attend public schools.
What are the educational rights of students who are immigrants?
300
The transfer of training so that students use the skills you have taught them independently in their inclusive classrooms.
What is generalization?
300
Involves adjustments in teaching methods but have minimual to no impact on level of curricular mastery
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Alters the content of the curriculum, the way students are taught, or expectations for mastery
What are low and high impact differentiation techniques?
300
A type of peer tutoring where pairs keep track of points, receive extra points for positive social skills, and compete against other heterogeneous groups.
What is classwide peer tutoring?
400
The following are a list of components of this document:
- present levels of performance (PLP) which address students' involvement in general ed
- appropriate and measurable annual goal relating to progress towards the general education or alternative curriculum
- statement of the required special ed & related services
- explanation of the extent to which the student will NOT participate in gen ed
- testing accommodations
- how students' progress will be measured and how progress will be shared
- projected beginning date of services as well as frequency, location, and duration
What is an IEP?
400
Social language skills that guide students in developing social relationships and in engaging in casual face-to-face conversations.
What are Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS)?
400
This document addresses students' academic achievement and functional performance and includes suggestions for achieving post-secondary goals.
What is a Summary of Performance (SOP)?
400
- previewing
- questioning
- reciprocal teaching
- collaborative strategic reading
- collaborative reading groups
- story/ text mapping
- communicative reading strategies
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- finding the main idea
- predicting
- surveying
- self-questioning
- paraphrasing
- outlining
- summarizing
- paragraph restatement
- visual imagery
- verbal rehearsal
What are teacher-directed and student-directed text comprehension strategies?
400
Students are assigned to teams and given an assignment. Every group collaborates to produce one product which is given one grade.
What is learning together?
500
A plan designed for students aged birth through 5 years of age that specifies how the disability impacts the child's participation in appropriate activities and details the early intervention services necessary to meet the developmental needs of eligible children.
What is an Individualized Family Service Plan?
500
Language skills that relate to literacy, cognitive development, & academic development in the classroom.
What is Cognitive/ Academic Language Proficiency (CALP)?
500
This is a plan that helps students to make the transition from school to adult life and develop self-determination.
What is an Individualized Transition Plan (ITP)?
500
Student-directed strategies in which students:
- Think about the author's purpose
- While reading, think about the reading speed and rereading when necessary
- After reading, think about the main idea and summarize info
What is TWA?
500
TALS (Think, Ask, Listen for What, Say to Self), and Give Me Five (1. Eyes on Speaker, 2. Mouth Quiet, 3. Body Still, 4. Ears Listening, 5. Hands Free)
What are two examples of listening learning strategies?