Fundamentals
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.
Includes disability categories of learning disabilities, mind intellectual disabilities, mild emotional/behavior disorders, and speech and language impairments
What is high-incidence disabilities?
Teachers working together to educate students in the inclusive classroom, providing all students with assistance and expertise of two professionals
What is co-teaching?
A process for planning units of instruction and individual lessons by which you first determine the assessments you will use to evaluate your students' learning and use them to guide you in designing and sequencing the instructional activities that your students will engage in
What is backward design?
Federal requirements mandate that all students are expected to participate in summative common assessments, usually involving standardized testing to assess their mastery
What is high-stakes testing?
A legal term referring to the environment that will least restrict a student's intellectual and social growth
What is least restrictive environment?
Includes disability categories of students with physical, sensory, and multiple and significant disabilities
This involves working together to solve problems and implement mutually agreed-on solutions to prevent and address learning and behavioral difficulties and to coordinate instructional programs for all students.
What is collaborative consultation?
Teachers identify concepts that need to be learned, delineate multiple ways in which students can show mastery that differ in complexity and learning preference, and allow students to select how they want to demonstrate their learning
What is tiered assignments?
Variations in testing administration, environment, equipment, technology, and procedures that allow students to access tests and accurately demonstrate their competence, knowledge, and abilities without altering the integrity of the tests
What is testing accommodations?
Any item, piece of equipment, or product system - whether bought, modified or customized - that is used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of an individual with a disability.
What is assistive technology?
A developmental disability that significantly affects verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction and adversely affects a child's educational performance
What is autism?
Supportive services educators teach new content that supports the content to be learned in the inclusive classroom.
What is priori model?
A strategy for previewing what students know, what they want to know, and what they have already learned
What is K-W-L?
Typically used with ELL's and are designed to minimize the extent to which students' language proficiency affects their test performance
What is linguistically based testing accommodations?
A concept or philosophy that guides the design and delivery of products and services so that they are usable by individuals with a wide range of capabilities and diversities
What is universal design?
Students demonstrate significant limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior, which adversely affects a child's education performance
What is intellectual disabilities?
Roles in a classroom include: supervising children during activities outside the classroom, serving as a translator, modeling appropriate skills, and prompting students.
What is a paraeducator?
After you model a strategy for the students, the students will take the role of the teacher while the teacher provides help through prompting, instructing, and modifying the activity
What is reciprocal teaching?
Students working in collaborative groups take a test, and each student receives the group grade. After the group test, students work individually on a second test that covers similar material
What is two-tiered testing?
A law that holds schools accountable for all students and measures accountability through a variety of large-scale assessments
What is the No Child Left Behind Act?
Students who experience inattentiveness, disorganization and poor motivation that interferes with learning, social interactions, and emotional development
What is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)?
Supportive instruction reinforces skills previously introduced in the inclusive classroom
What is the post hoc model?
Breaking down comments and concepts that students do not understand or tasks that students have difficulty performing into smaller components that promote understanding or mastery
What is scaffolding?
What is error analysis?