Delivering and monitoring a specially designed and coordinated set of comprehensive, evidence-based, and universally designed instructional and assessment practices and related services to students with learning, behavioral, emotional, physical, health, or sensory disabilities.
What is special education?
Students work collaboratively with their peers to achieve a shared academic goal rather than competing against or working separately from their classmates.
What is cooperative learning?
Addresses the reasons why the behavior occurs and the conditions related to the behavior, including the possible antecedents and consequences.
What specific hypotheses?
Federal requirements mandate that all students, including those with disabilities, are expected to participate in summative common assessment, which usually involve students taking standardized tests to assess their mastery of benchmarks in the curriculum.
What is high stakes testing?
Any service that directly assists an individual with disability to select, acquire, or use an assistive technology device, including physical, occupational, and speech therapy.
What is assistive technology service?
Stands for least restrictive environment.
What is LRE?
Student understand that they must work together to achieve their goal.
What is positive interdependence?
Social narratives, involves the use of individualized, brief, predictable, easy-to-follow personalized stories written from the viewpoint of students.
What are social stories?
Progress-monitoring strategy that provides individualized, brief direct, and repeated measures of student's proficiency and progress across the curriculum.
What is curriculum-based assessment?
Tailored assessments to the skill level and scheduling preferences of the student (Example of student assessments: Sumdog).
What is technology-based assessment?
A philosophy that brings diverse students, families, educators, and community members together to create schools and other social institutions based acceptance, belonging, and community.
What is inclusion?
A cooperative learning format that places more responsibility on group members.
What is learning-together approach?
The observer counts the number of behaviors that occur during the observation period.
What is event recording?
This method is used to examine students' responses to identify areas of difficulty and patterns in the ways students approach a task.
What is error analysis?
In this model students watch videos, listen to audio, or complete some other learning activity.
What is flipped classroom?
Educators, other professionals (e.g., therapists, ancillary staff, students, families community agencies are part of this community.
Who are the participants of an inclusive community?
Students are given numerous opportunities to practice reading short, appropriate, and relevant materials at their independent or instructional level until they can read them fluently.
What is repeated reading?
A narrative of the events that took place during the observation which helps the observe understand the academic context of the behavior.
What is anecdotal record?
Essential component of RTI which includes ongoing assessments to examine and documenting the impact of your instructional practices on student learning and the effectiveness of teaching practices and instructional program.
What is progress monitoring?
Provides students and educators access to information (exploratory and discovery) based learning and communication experiences.
What is the internet?
A multi tiered process where only students who do not respond to a series of more intensive research-based interventions would be identified as having a learning disability.
What is RTI?
Partner reading, paragraph shrinking and prediction relay are effective strategies in promoting reading fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension.
What is peer-assisted learning strategies?
What is behavioral intervention plan?
A way to monitor your students' learning progress and to inform your instruction by examining how students react to and benefit from instruction by using at test-teach-retest model.
What is dynamic assessment?
Multimedia features that can help educators differentiate their instruction.
What is video-based digital materials?