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A philosophy that brings diverse students, families, educators, and community members together to create schools and other social institutions based on acceptance, belonging, and community
What is inclusion?
A written, individualized education program listing the special education and related services students with disabilities will receive to address their unique academic, social, behavioral, communication, functional, and physical strengths and challenges
What is an IEP - individualized education program?
Employing both the native and the new language and culture of students to teach them
What is bilingual education?
What is generalization?
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?
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 a multitude of disabilities
What is special education?
Professionals and family members who, with the student when appropriate, make important decisions concerning the education of the student
What is multidisciplinary team?
This seeks to help educators acknowledge and understand the increasing diversity in society and in the classroom and to see their students' diverse backgrounds ad assets that can support teaching and student learning
What is multicultural education?
Component in the IEP that addresses the natural transition points and includes a set of coordinated activities within a results-oriented process that is designed to address post-secondary goals
What is transition services?
Differentiating your assessments to meet the strengths and challenges of individual students
What is tiered assignments?
Direct services provided to students with disabilities (usually in a separate room) which involves individualized remedial instruction related to specific skills
What is resource room?
A summary of students' current academic, socialization, behavioral, communication, and functional skills
What is PLAAFP - present levels of academic achievement and functional performance?
Any item, piece of equipment, or product system--whether bought, modified, or customized--that is used to create, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of an individual with a disability
What is assistive technology device?
An individual's ability to identify and take actions to achieve their goals in life
What is self-determination?
Learning activities in which students are likely to struggle even when using cooperative learning where some group members fail to contribute and allow others to do the majority of the work
Educating students with disabilities as much as possible with their peers who do not have disabilities
What is least restrictive environment?
What is co-teaching?
A program that can be a component of or an alternative to bilingual education program
What is English as a second language?
A summary that addresses students' academic achievement and functional performance and suggestions for achieving their post-secondary goals
What is a Summary of Performance?
An alteration of environment, curriculum format, or equipment that allows an individual with a disability to gain access to content and/or complete assigned tasks
What is accommodation?
What is mainstreaming?
A progress-monitoring strategy that provides individualized brief direct, and repeated measures of students' proficiency and progress across the curriculum
What is curriculum-based assessment?
What is normalization?
The belief that individuals with disabilities are in need of assistance, fixing, and pity
What is ableism?
Used to describe a change in the curriculum
What is modification?