The First Half of the Course
This alternate term for "Learning Styles" uses an acronym derived from Visual learners, Auditory Learners, Read/write (tactile) learners, and Kinesthetic learners.
What are VARK Modalities?
These are the most common skills targeted by intervention.
What are reading skills?
This instructional model involves the ways in which we develop programs and activities so that all students may participate and learn together.
What is Inclusive Education?
This is simply a change made in the teaching process, resources, assignments, or pupil products to help a student achieve the expected learning outcomes, and requires no special permission or credit alteration.
What is an adaptation?
Formerly known as "summative assessment", this type of assessment provides evidence of achievement and is used to plan future learning goals for students.
What is Assessment of Learning?
Dr. Howard Gardner proposed this eight-part theory as an alternative to the traditional notion of measuring one's intelligence.
What is Multiple Intelligence Theory?
These types of Intervention are performed at the whole-class level and involve universal screening followed by need-focused small-group work.
What are Tier 1 Interventions?
This is an educational setting where students from different backgrounds and with different abilities learn together in an inclusive environment.
What is a common learning environment?
These accommodations are appropriate for students who have a significant cognitive disability and refers to altering the number, essence, and content of the curricular learning outcomes that the student is expected to meet.
What are modifications?
This is a collective term for self-assessment and peer-assessment strategies.
What is Assessment as Learning?
These are a group of important student skills that aren't usually specifically taught in the classroom, including note-taking skills, time-management skills, and exam-writing skills.
What are study skills?
These interventions are required by a very small percentage of students and are usually performed one-on-one.
What are Tier 3 Interventions?
This term, referring to the variety of unique dimensions, qualities, and characteristics individuals possess, is often combined with "inclusion" to the benefit of the collective.
What is Diversity?
This term identifies highly specialized learning experiences that are functionally appropriate for students whose cognitive disabilities are so significant that they do not benefit from participating in curricular activities.
What is individualized programming?
Effective assessments include this, which involves specific and descriptive reflection from teachers, peers, or oneself on a piece of evaluated work.
What is feedback?
This motivational psychology model is often depicted as a pyramid, with "deficiencies" at the bottom and "growth" at the top.
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
An educator cannot make these kinds of changes during the intervention process, including reducing a student's work load or changing curricular outcomes.
What are modifications?
Solution circles are an example of this type of method utilized by inclusive educators to reflect on and improve their classroom practices.
What are peer learning methods?
This document summarizes a student's performance level, instructional plan, and its effectiveness when individualized programming is taking place.
What is an Individual Education Plan or IEP?
Assessment for Learning is the modern term for this type of assessment, which includes minor formal and informal assessment activities conducted throughout a unit of study.
What is Formative Assessment?
This gerund describes tasks residing at the top tier of Bloom's Taxonomy.
What is Create?
These interventions involve small groups trying a different method of instruction than what was tried previously, and usually occur during enrichment classes or at home.
What are Tier 2 Interventions?
This approach to work and success utilized by inclusive educators includes recognizing your own hard work and asking yourself questions like "what worked?" and "what didn't?".
What is the reflective practitioner approach?
These SMART IEP notations are concise descriptions of what the student will know and be able to do by the end of the school year.
What are Student-Specific Outcomes?
This collection of assessment practices is built around the philosophy that assessments should be student-focused, proactive, and tailored to students' diverse needs.
What is Mindful Assessment?