Plain Language
First things First
Classroom Capers
Differentiate This
Potpourri
100
It is the partial or full-time program that educates special education students with their general education peers. It generally assumes that the student must "earn" the right to be in the classroom.
What is Mainstreaming?
100
The general education student still experiences difficulty in the general education classroom(s), despite receiving interventions. (Now what?)
What is "begin the formal referral process?"
100
The methods and strategies an educator uses to maintain a classroom environment that is conducive to student success and learning.
What is classroom management?
100
Have the class work in collaborative groups, help students take notes, encourage students to ask questions, foster listening skills, gain their attention, give detailed and clear instructions, and motivate them.
What are methods for differentiating large group instruction?
100
Originating in the field of architecture, this concept refers to the design of flexible curriculum that promotes learning for all.
What is Universal Design for Learning (UDL)?
200
It is specially designed individualized or group instruction or special services or programs that meet the unique needs of students with disabilities. (Think Broadly!)
What is Special Education?
200
It's a multi-tiered process whereby only students who do not respond would be identified as having a learning disability. This has replaced the "discrepancy model" for identification of special education students.
What is RtI? (Response to Intervention)
200
It's a school-wide approach to supporting the learning and positive behavior of ALL students and involves cooperation, collaboration and commitment of all members of the school community.
What is a positive behavioral intervention system or positive behavioral support system?
200
Readiness, Interest, Learning Profile
What are student characteristics to consider when differentiating content, process and product.
200
You could start at the essential questions for that unit of study and work backward, so you can determine what all students must know. (FYI: the answer is not "backward design")
What is one way to design a differentiated lesson plan?
300
Students must be educated as closely as possible to their homes and interact with other students from their neighborhood, promoting education of SWD in general education classrooms.
What is Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)?
300
It's a preventive, problem-solving process assisting classroom teachers.
What is the pre-referral system? (aka teacher assistance team, instructional support team, child/student study team)
300
It's a person-centered, multi-method, problem-solving process that involves gathering information about a student's inappropriate actions or challenging behavior.
What is a Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA)?
300
To address complexity using a student's cognitive strengths and learning style(s) when designing activities.
Why use an Integrated Matrix with Gardner (MI) and Bloom (taxonomy of cognitive thinking) concepts ?
300
They are tailored to meet the needs of individual students, allowing them to respond in alternative ways that differ in complexity and learning style.
What are tiered assignments?
400
It is a philosophy that brings diverse students, families, educators and community members together to create schools and other institutions based on acceptance, belonging, and community. It is also the name of a model type of education currently in favor among most educators.
What is Inclusion?
400
Passed by Congress in 1973, it serves as a civil rights law for individuals with disabilities and forbids discrimination in education and other arenas. (Students not eligible for Special Ed services may qualify for support under this law)
What is Section 504?
400
When a student's behavior interferes with the learning and socialization in the classroom you seriously consider meeting with the 'team' and do this.
When is it time to conduct a Functional Behavioral Analysis (FBA)?
400
You can provide texts at different reading levels, use CDs or DVDs, organizers for guided note-taking, re-teach, provide vocabulary lists for reference, and/or highlight key passages in text.
What are strategies for differentiating CONTENT?
400
Teaching literacy with assignments such as "Huck Finn writes a letter to Jim about what he learned on his trip."
What is the R-A-F-T approach?
500
It is a parental safeguard that includes prior written notice, the need for written consent, mediation and impartial hearings.
What is Due Process?
500
After the CST/planning team determines that a student may need the formal support of special education, this step occurs.
What is the convening of the Committee on Special Education?
500
It is a method of collecting data to identify triggers and results associated with a student's behavior.
What is an A-B-C Analysis? (antecedent, behavior, consequence) Also accept: event recording, interval or time recording/sampling, anecdotal records
500
Allow multiple options for expression of learning, balance work environments- (group vs independent, competitive vs collegial), develop activities with multiple perspectives on topics and issues.
What are strategies for differentiating PROCESS based on a student's learning profile?
500
A parental procedural safeguard that requires school districts to inform families of any activity regarding initiation, identification, evaluation or placement of a student, as well as the refusal to do the above.
What is Prior Written Notice or Notice of Recommendation?
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