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A multi-tiered identification and instructional model for assessing the extent to which students respond to and need more intensive and individualized research-based interventions to succeed in the classroom
What is RTI?
An educational program that uses both the students’ native and the new language and the culture of students to teach them.
What is Bilingual Education?
A four-step model for preparing students to transition to inclusive classrooms.
What is Transenvironmental programming?
A process for planning units of instruction and individual lessons by which assessments are first determined and then used to guide the design and sequence of the instructional activities that students will engage in to achieve mastery of the identified learning outcomes.
What is Backward design?
A type of study guide that consists of an ordered list of the main points with key words blanked out that are then filled in by students while reading the selection or listening to a lecture in class.
What is framed outline?
A problem-solving process whereby a team of educators assist teachers in addressing the challenges of individual students that occurs prior to considering students for placement in a special education program.
What is Prereferral system?
Usually a pullout program where content instruction and communication occur only in English and the students’ native culture and language are used to develop their skills in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing English.
What is English as a second language?
A set of coordinated activities to improve students’ academic and functional achievement and to address postsecondary goals in the areas of training, education, employment, community participation, and, where appropriate, independent living skills.
What is Transition services?
A cooperative technique used to help students reflect on and master content that involves (1) pairing students randomly; (2) giving students a question, problem, or situation; (3) asking individual students to think about the question; (4) having students discuss their responses with their partners; and (5) selecting several pairs to share their thoughts and responses with the class.
What is Think-pair-share?
A textbook that presents the same content as the on-grade textbook but at a lower readability level.
What is adapted textbook?
An educational philosophy for structuring schools so that all students are educated together in general education classrooms.
What is inclusion?
Incorporate cultural diversity
What is an example of Teaching About Individual Differences?
Develop students’ self-esteem
What is en example of Promoting Positive Classroom Behavior?
An instructional arrangement where students work with their peers to achieve a shared academic goal rather than competing against or working separately from their classmates.
What is cooperative learning?
A mnemonic device that fosters memory by creating a meaningful word or phrase using the first letter of the words or phrases to be remembered.
What is acronym?
involves delivering and monitoring a specially designed and coordinated set of comprehensive, research-based instructional and assessment practices and related services to students with learning, behavioral, emotional, physical, health, or sensory disabilities.
What is Special Education?
A teaching arrangement whereby teachers and ancillary support personnel work together to educate all students in a general education classroom. Educators involved in co-teaching share responsibility and accountability for planning and delivering instruction, evaluating, grading, and disciplining all of their students.
What is Co-teaching?
students collect data on their own behavior
What is self-monitoring?
Small groups of students who work collaboratively to share their reactions to and discuss various aspects of books that all group members have decided to read.
What is literature circles?
Clarify language, repeat directions, highlight key words or phrases, present only one sentence per line, examples of response mode accommodations, allow students to dictate answers, use lined or grid paper, use enlarged answer bubbles or blocks, give oral, take-home, and open-book exams
What is examples of testing accommodations?
An approach that guides the designing and implementation of flexible curriculum and teaching and assessment materials and strategies, learning environments, and interactions with others so that they are inclusive of all students, families, and professionals.
What is UDL?
Class meetings and peer support meetings: Used to address classroom social interaction problems
What is a peer based strategy?
A plan focusing on how the learning environment will change to address a student’s behavior, characteristics, strengths, and challenges that includes specific measurable goals for appropriate behaviors and the individuals, interventions, supports, and services responsible for helping the student achieve these goals.
What is Behavioral intervention plan?
uses students’ natural language in and out of school to immerse students in a learning environment that supports literacy
What is whole language approach
Focusing importance of being on time instead of being too early which may intensify anxiety, teaching and prompting use of relaxation techniques, encouraging them to praise themselves during testing, avoiding timed tests, use alternative assessments, teaching them to work on one question at a time, incorporating motivating and encouraging icons throughout the test as well as reminders to relax
What is helping students with test anxiety?