Special Education Process
Assesments
Differentiated instruction
Technology
Multicultural
100
A group of people composed of professionals and family members who along with the student when appropriate make important educational decisions.
What is a multidisciplinary team?
100
A type of assessment where students work on meaningful, complex, relevant, open-ended learning activities that reveal their ability to apply the knowledge and skills that they have learned to contextualized problems and real-life settings.
What is authentic assessment?
100
A curricular accommodation that involves teaching a diverse group of students' individualized skills from different curricular areas.
What is curriculum overlapping?
100
Assisitive technology devices that are usually nonelectronic, inexpensive, homemade, readily available, and easy to use, such as pencil holders and strings attached to objects.
What is low technology devices?
100
An educational program that uses both the student's native and the new language and the culture of students to teach them.
What is bilingual education?
200
Refers to a proactive and collaborative preventive problem-solving process assisting classroom teachers to help their students succeed academically, behaviorally, and socially so that a referral for a special education plaement is not needed.
What is prereferral?
200
The use of assessment strategies during instruction to monitor students' learning progress and to use this information to make ongoing decisions about teaching effectiveness and ways to improve it.
What is formative assessment?
200
A curricular accommodation where students are given lesons in the same curricular areas as their peers but at varying levels of difficulty.
What is multilevel teaching?
200
Assistive technology devices that are usually electronic, costly, and commercially produced and that require some training to use hem effectively, such as electronic communication systems and motorized wheelchairs.
What is high technology devices?
200
The value and perspectives that inform a family's worldview, way of life, priorities, and decision making.
What is a belief system?
300
A multilevel prevention, assessment, and instructional data-based decision model for assessing the extent to which students respond to a series of more intensive and individualized research-based interventions.
What is Response To Intervention (RTI)?
300
A type of assessment that involves how students react to and benefit from instruction by using a test-teach-retest model.
What is dynamic assessment?
300
A curricular accommodation involving teachers identifying the concepts that need to be learned and allowing students to choose to respond in alternative ways that differ in complexity and learning style.
What is a tiered assignment?
300
Electronic versions of textbooks that can be real aloud via technology. Also called e-textbooks or electronic textbooks.
What is digital textbooks?
300
An educational philosophy that seeks to help teachers acknowledge and understanding the increasing diversity in society and in the classroom and to see their students' diverse backgrounds as assets that can support student learning and the learning of others.
What is multicultural education?
400
A multidisciplinary, inter-agency, strength-based, and student and family focused process for collaboratively designing and delivering individualized, culturally sensitive, school and community based educational, counseling, medical, and vocational services to address the unique strengths, challenges, and behaviors of students and their families.
What is a wraparound process?
400
A process that involves analyzing the critical features of learning environments that affect student performance.
What is an ecological assessment?
400
A cooperative technique used to review and check student understanding of orally presented information that involves mixed ability groups, giving each student a number, breaking up presentation, having students "put your heads together and make sure everyone knows the answer," having groups discuss and expand on topic and finally picking a peer to answer and explain.
What is Numbered Heads Together?
400
A textbook that presents the same content as the on-grade textbook but at a lower readability level.
What is an adapted textbook?
400
An English as-a-second-language technique that uses cues, gestures, technology, manipulatives, drama and visual stimuli and aids to teach new vocabulary and concepts.
What is sheltered instruction?
500
An individually based principle that calls for schools to educate students with disabilities as much as possible with their peers that do not have a disability.
What is a least restrictive environment (LRE)?
500
The use of assessments at the end of instruction to assess student mastery of specific content, topics, and concepts and skills taught and to communicate this information to others.
What is a summative assessment?
500
A cooperative technique used to help students reflect on and master content that involves 1. pairing students randomly 2. giving students a question 3. asking students to think about the question 4. having students discuss responses with their partners 5. selecting several pairs to share responses with the class
What is Think-Pair-Share?
500
Brief online interactive demonstrations and manipulatives that offer animated and visual presentations of a range of mathematical content.
What is an applet?
500
Usually a pullout program where content instruction and communication occur only in English and the student's native culture and languages are used to develop their skills in understanding, speaking, and writing English.
What is English-as-a-second-language?
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