Inclusion Basics
Education that welcomes all students in the same classroom.
What is Inclusive Education?
A student’s current skill or proficiency level.
What is readiness?
The gap between what a kid can do alone vs. with help.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)?
Input that is understandable but slightly challenging.
What is Comprehensible Input?
Temporary help like word lists or pictures.
What is scaffolding?
The goal of making sure "ignored" students are seen and supported.
What is "making the invisible visible"?
What a student finds exciting or engaging.
What is interest?
In i+1, the i stands for this.
What is the learner's current level?
Keeping lessons hard enough even when you change them.
What is academic rigor?
Changing student groups based on the activity.
What is flexible grouping?
This shouldn't define how much respect a student gets.
What is a "defect" or abnormality?
A student’s preferred way of learning.
What is a learning profile?
Stress or boredom that stops a person from learning.
What is the Affective Filter?
A massive collection of data or texts used for teaching.
What is a corpus?
Harder or easier versions of the same task.
What are tiered activities?
Planning a lesson based on a student's strengths and weaknesses.
What is assessment-informed planning?
The "what" of the lesson that teachers can change.
What is content?
The "brain editor" that fixes mistakes while speaking.
What is the Monitor?
Two things teachers change: vocabulary (lexicon) and this.
What is grammar?
Different areas in the room for different tasks.
What are learning stations?
These authors say we focus too much on the person who is different, not the difference.
Who are Skliar & Perez?
In a language class, this should be treated as the "norm."
What is diversity (or variability)?
He created the "i+1" theory.
Who is Stephen Krashen?
Giving students multiple ways to access this.
What is content (or information)?
A task where students must talk to trade missing info.
What is an information-gap task?