These are key members of the IEP TEAM who provide a wealth of information on our students.
Who are parents/guardians.
100
This strategy involves physically guiding a student through the steps of a task.
What is Prompting
100
These involve individualized, brief stories written from a student veiwpoint that describe appropriate social behavior.
What are Social Stories
100
This simple strategy involves the teacher positioning him/herself strategically near students.
What is Proximity and Movement
100
This is where students are educated with few to no supportive services.
What is General Education
200
These typically under-regarded and under-paid educators help teachers to effectively run their classrooms.
Who are paraeducators.
200
This statategy involves one student teaching another.
What is Peer Tutoring.
200
Acceptance of language diversity can increase these two things in ELLs.
What are self-esteem and school performance.
200
This involves moving from one activity to the next and can prove difficult for many students with disabilities.
What are Transitions.
200
This is the most important law regarding special education.
What is IDEA
300
This approach to team teaching lowers the Student/Teacher ratio and allows teachers to teach the same material in a more personalized way.
What is Parallel Teaching.
300
This approach to configuring groups focuses on students' differences.
What is Heterogeneous Grouping.
300
These five things separate people the most.
What are culture, language, religion, gender and socioeconomic status.
300
This is a way for students to evaluate their own behavior.
What is Self-Momnitoring.
300
Schools are no longer required to use this to determine eligibility for special education services.
What is the IQ-Discrepency model
400
This practice helps teachers to gain the trust of parents, students and the community. It is also the professional duty of educators.
What is Advocacy.
400
This systematic process breaks down a skill into individual steps.
What is Task Analysis.
400
These allow students to understand life from the perspective of a student with disabilities.
What are Disability Simulations.
400
This motivational method involves students receiving something desirable for their efforts.
What is Positive Reinforcement.
400
this is the ability to learn skills in one setting and use them in another.
What is Generalization
500
This progress reporting system allows parents and teachers to work more closely together. This system allows parents to reinforce students' performance or behavior in school.
What is a Home-School Contract.
500
This statement or activity introduces material by activating prior knowledge, interests and strengths.
What is an Anticipatory Set.
500
These people should be viewed as capable individuals with unique personalities, qualities, likes, dislikes, strengths and challenges.
What are ALL people!
500
This effective strategy involves distributing tokens among a group. Tokens are taken for inappropriate behavior.
What is a Group Free-Token Response-Cost System
500
This civil rights act was passed in 1990 and integrates people with disabilities into mainstream society.