Differentiating Instruction in reading
Understanding Inclusion
Creating A Positive Classroom environment
Understanding the Special Education Process
Understanding the educational strengths and challenges of students from diverse backgrounds
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Developing students' vocabulary is a good way to enhance their reading fluency and comprehension as well as their learning of subject matter content across the curriculum. To support their learning, it is also important to develop technical language associated with specific content areas.

What is academic language?

100

The philosophy that brings diverse students, families, educators and community members together to create schools and other social institutions based on acceptance, belonging, and community

What is inclusion?

100

A collaborative data – based decision – making process for establishing and implementing a continuum of research – based schoolwide and individualized instruction and behavioral strategies and services that are available and used to support the learning, socialization, independence, and positive behavior of all students

What is a school wide positive behavioral intervention and supports?

100

This group is composed of professionals and family members, with the students when appropriate, make important in decisions concerning the education of students.

What is a multidisciplinary team?

100

This significant factor in the US population changes and the make up of schools depending on their economic, educational, cultural, and language backgrounds.

What is immigration?

200

You and your students can share in reading a variety of materials. While doing this, you read a new or familiar story together, discussing vocabulary and aspects of the story as you read it,

What is shared book reading?

200

This principle refers to the partial or full time programs that educated students with disabilities with their general education peers.

What is mainstreaming?

200

This is a person – centered, multi-method problem – solving process that involves gathering information to do the following: measure student's behavior, determine why where and when a student uses these behaviors, identify the academic, instructional, social, affective, cultural, environmental, and can textual variables that appear to lead to and maintain the behavior and finally plan appropriate interventions to address the purposes of the behavior.

What is a functional behavioral assessment?

200

This process was used to identify students as having a learning disability if there is a significant gap between their learning potential and their academic achievement.

What is an IQ – achievement discrepancy model?

200

This type of program employs both the native and the new language and the culture of the students to teach them.

What is bilingual education?

300

This approach to reading teaches students to recognize and understand the final logical features of language and of individualized words and letters.

What is phonetic – based reading approaches?

300

This philosophy require schools to educate students with disabilities as much as possible with their peers who do not have disabilities

What is the least restrictive environment?

300

Used to observe and define a behavior by counting the number of behaviors that occurred during the observation..

What is event recording?

300

This process is a three tier, multilevel prevention identification process that is used to assess the extent to which your students respond to and need more intensive and individualized research – based interventions prior to considering whether students are eligible for special education services.

What is RTI?

300

These are social language skills that guide students in developing good social relationships and engaging in casual face – to – based conversations

What are basic interpersonal communication skills?

400

This strategy teaches letters and words using combinations of visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile modalities.

What are multi sensory strategies?

400

This principle which originated in Scandinavia and was later brought to the United States in the 1960's seeks to provide opportunities, social interactions, and experiences that parallel those of society to adults and children with disabilities

What is normalization?

400

A team develops a plan based on information and hypotheses focusing on the use of research – and function – based interventions designed to address the students learning and behavior by changing the classroom environment to better accommodate the students characteristics, strengths, interests, relationships, and cultural and language or language background.

What is a behavioral intervention plan?

400

One students are deemed eligible for special education services, a plan to guide the educational program is developed and implemented

What is an IEP?

400

This seeks to help educators acknowledge and understand the increasing diversity in society and in the classroom and to see their students' diverse backgrounds as assets that can support teaching and student learning.

What is multicultural education?

500

This approach to writing consists of holistic sub processes: planning – prewriting, drafting, editing, revising, and publishing.

What is a process – oriented approach to writing instruction?

500

The provisions of which act called on schools to reconstruct or coordinate their efforts and programs to help all students – including those with disabilities – have access to and succeed in the general education curriculum to meet specific learning standards.

What is No Child Left Behind Act of 2001?

500

A widely used, highly effective method for motivating students to engage in positive behavior.

What is positive reinforcement?

500

Students, families, and educators are involved in the creation of a student's academic plan.

Who is involved in creating an IEP?

500

This refers to the tenacity to persevere to attain positive outcomes and overcome some type of adversity.

What is resiliency?

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