Important Acronyms in Special Education
Differentiating Instruction
Differentiating Instruction-Math
Reading Skills
Evaluating Student Progress
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What does SPED stand for?

What is special education?

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Content, process, product, affect and learning environment are under what?

What is differentiation?

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Implementing various modifications to meet the academic and learning needs of various students.

What is differentiated instructions?

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Speech and accuracy with which a student reads. 

What is reading fluency?

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What are two types of assessments?

Summative and Formative Assessments 

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What does IEP stand for?

What is Individualized Education Program?

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What teachers teach is?

What is content?

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NCTM is the acronym of what?

What is the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics?

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A person’s ability to read with appropriate stress, volume, pause and intonation.

What is student prosody?

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What is a main concern about standardized testing? 

It relies on a single exam to determine students’ abilities. 

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What is IDEA stand for?

What is Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?

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What is the way students demonstrate mastery?

What is product?

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Student who have difficulty with counting without using their fingers, recalling math facts quickly, recognizing and writing numerals and other mathematical symbols are characteristics of what type of learning difficulty?

What is mathematical difficulties?

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Model lead test, time delay and the system of least prompts 

What is varying instructional sequence?
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Repeating directions, highlighting key words or phrases, allow students to dictate answers and using enlarged answers are all___.

What are testing accommodations? 

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What does RTI stand for?

What is Response To Intervention?

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How teachers teach?

What is process?

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Technical, subtechnical, general and symbolic are all types of what kind of vocabulary?

What is mathematical vocabulary?

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A student reads unfamiliar words by comparing them to familiar words that rhyme with unfamiliar words. 

What is Rhyming keywords?

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Giving an overview of the purpose, content and format of the exam is___.

What is study and test taking skills?

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What does ABA stand for?

What is Applied Behavior Analysis?

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What is the term for a way that a classroom is designed?

What is learning environment?

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What teaching strategies teaches students how to use manipulative by modeling how to use them along with allowing students to experiment with materials?

What is teaching aids?

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A student reads an unfamiliar word by using offices at the beginning or end of a word then focuses on the root word. 

What is peeling off?

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Teaching and prompting use of relaxation techniques. 

What is helping students decrease their test anxiety?

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