Lesson Planning
the "stuff" needed to teach the lesson. May include pencils, calculators, chromebooks, notebooks, worksheets, etc.
Materials
Students have a voice in their own learning by choosing topics, projects, and how to approach them
Student autonomy
Purposes/non-purposes of differentiation
-make content more accessible
-accommodates learning styles, interests and abilities
-NOT to make it "easier"
Theory that there are 8 different types of intelligences and states the people have many, not just a single one
Howard Gardner
LRE
Least Restrictive Environment
Specific, measurable, describes what students should know or be able to do post lesson
learning objectives
The teacher shifts from being a lecturer to a guide who supports students' learning and provides feedback
Teacher as a facilitator
CSE
Committee on Special Education; a group of people including teachers and parents that make educational decisions for students with disabilities
Created a hierarchical arrangement of cognitive processing skills to classify learning objectives and skills
Benjamin Bloom
FAPE
Free and Appropriate Public Education (1990)
Component that is written by the state you teach in to ensure that students learn the necessary content
Students engage in activities like discussions, problem-solving, and experiments rather than passively receiving information
Active learning
Content, process, product, environment
Describes the 4 distinct cognitive phases of development
Piaget
VARK (Learning Styles)
Visual, auditory, reading/writing, kinesthetic
Measures a students understanding of content in a tangible way, with trackable data
formal assessments
How to best approach diversity in the classroom (3 verbs)
Care, Respect, Teach
An educational belief that all students should be placed in age-appropriate classrooms in their home districts. Students with disabilities in this model are presumed to be competent, and participating members of their school community
inclusion
Claims that traditional education puts the teacher as the “depositor” of information and the student as a passive receiver. He claims that students should be active participants in their learning
Paulo Freier
IDEA
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (1975) mandates that students receive the provision of a free and appropriate public school education for eligible students ages 3–21
gauges student understanding without using standard grading criteria
informal assessments
Describe any of the 8 Intelligences as defined by Howard Gardner and a definition/meaning/example
Naturalist, Spatial, Body-Kinesthetic, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Logical-Mathematical, Linguistic, Musical
A legal document created for a child identified with a disability by a team of educational professionals including; teachers, paraprofessionals, parents, etc. This is based on data and includes yearly goals and classroom accommodations and mofidications
IEP
Emphasized that cognitive development could only be fully understood while considering the social and cultural influences that shape it.
Vygotsky
ADA
Americans with Disabilities Act passed in 1990 protects citizens civil rights from discrimination