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Inclusion
100
When children with special learning needs are welcomed as full participants, we call this...
What is INCLUSIVE
100
The array of strategies that a teacher uses to help students access learning in interesting and varied ways.
What is the teacher's tool belt.
100
The first consideration in creating any sort of plan in a DAP classroom.
What is goals/learning objectives/outcomes.
100
One of the reasons why we assess children.
What is 1.) to monitor their development, 2.) to guide our planning, 3.) identify children who need intervention, 4.) share information with others about child progress.
100
States that preschools may not discriminate on the basis of a child's disability.
What is The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1992.
200
The most basic considerations that teachers take when planning the room environment.
What is health and safety.
200
When a teacher provides just enough help to encourage a student to access slightly more difficult learning than s/he is currently able to achieve.
What is scaffolding.
200
Examples include: social emotional development, language development, literacy development, mathematics, and physical development.
What are learning domains.
200
The uneven growth that children make towards learning objectives are sometimes called...
What are spurts.
200
Structured to serve a wide range of students; is flexible, and organized to meet the needs of ALL students.
What is an inclusion school model.
300
The way in which teachers ensure that children come to feel that they are part of a community in the classroom.
What is creating the circle of "we".
300
The ideal teaching strategy to deliver information to the whole class, provide students with listening/talking opportunities, and focus attention for a chunk of time.
What is large group time.
300
The order in which a curriculum is mapped out so that easier skills are taught as a prerequisite for more difficult skills.
What is sequence.
300
Anticipating the characteristics of children within an age-range that are more likely to influence the validity of our assessment methods.
What is age-appropriate.
300
A statement of a child's current level of functioning, annual long-term goals, a breakdown of those goals into behavioral objectives, and a timeline and description of the means by which the goals will be measured and reached.
What is an Individualized Education Program (IEP).
400
When a teacher considers the changes that take place over time in children, we call this...
What is taking into account evolving learning needs.
400
The ideal teaching strategy to engage children in working on a problem, applying a concept already learned, or focusing on a common interest.
What is small group time.
400
The alignment between individual lessons and the bigger picture is based on...
What is meaningful connections/integration.
400
Sharing decision-making with parents in order to work together towards a shared goal for that child.
What is common cause.
400
Strategy for scheduling the day and grouping children so that their individual and evolving needs can best be met.
What is flexibility.
500
Probably the most important social skill that a preschool teacher must help her young students to internalize.
What is self-regulation.
500
The ideal strategy to work one-on-one with a child, observe child behaviors, document assessment evidence in a naturalistic setting, or provide a targeted intervention.
What are learning centers.
500
The meaningful exploration of a concept (as opposed to rushing through many concepts to cover them quickly).
What is depth.
500
One way to establish it is with humility, realizing that the parents have as much to share with you as you have to share with them.
What is a two-way relationship.
500
Principle that guides inclusion for children of all needs.
What is the idea that all children can learn.
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