Spec. Ed. Legislation
The year the first special education law (P.L. 94-142: the Education for All Handicapped Children Act) passed, mandating access to a public school education for students with special needs
What is 1975?
The premier association for special education professionals that sets a code of ethics as well as standards for professional practice for the field
What is the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)?
Working with others on a common goal
What is collaboration?
One parental right
What is the right to request special services, the right to decline special services, the right to be included in all IEP decisions, or the right to have an interpreter provided as needed? (Name one parental right.)
Field of education with the greatest shortage of highly qualified teachers
What is special education?
IEP
What is an individualized education program?
The new name for P.L. 94-142 per 1990
What is Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
The number of principles in the Council of Exceptional Children's Code of Ethics
What is 8?
Within collaboration, the equal value of every team member
What is parity?
Getting to know a parent to the point of a good relationship establishes this
What is rapport?
Person provided by some school districts to support and guide first-year teachers
What is a mentor?
LRE
What is least restrictive environment?
The section of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 that provides needed accommodations for students who do not qualify for special education services
What is Section 504?
The principles special educators should use in carrying out day-to-day responsibilities
What are standards for professional practice?
The practice of a student with special needs being instructed within the general education classroom with in-class support from a special education teacher
What is inclusion?
Two causes of a parent feeling overwhelmed
What is the identification of a special need of one's child, death of one's child, low level of literacy in English, nontraditional family, or poverty? (Name two causes.)
Three signs of teacher burnout
What is dreading going to work, difficulty concentrating on teaching tasks, feeling overwhelmed by one's caseload, withdrawing from colleagues, engaging in conflict with co-teachers, experiencing insomnia, or experiencing health problems due to stress? (Name three.)
FAPE
What is free and appropriate public education?
Law passed in 1990 that ensures that individuals with disabilities are not discriminated against in areas outside of school
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
The standard of professional practice that concerns refraining from aversive techniques when encouraging students to cooperate and stay focused
What is management of behavior?
Three of the six co-teaching models as described by Friend and Cook (2003)
What is one teacher/one observer, one teacher/one drifter, station teaching, parallel teaching, alternative teaching, or teach teaching? (Name three.)
Most important strategy for accomplishing effective parent-teacher relationships
What is ongoing communication?
Three stressors that contribute to teacher burnout
What is a large student caseload, heavy paperwork responsibilities, difficult co-teaching relationships, lack of support from administration, difficult parents, or students with behavioral problems? (Name three.)
FERPA
What is the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act?
Name of the requirement that school districts take an active approach toward identifying and serving children with disabilities in need of early intervention or preschool special education services
What is Child Find?
The standard of professional practice that concerns the selection of appropriate instructional materials, equipment, and supplies for students with special needs
What are instructional responsibilities?
Should be clearly defined for a teacher assistant (TA) collaborating with a special education teacher
What are TA responsibilities and expectations?
Meeting to resolve parental disagreements with the IEP team's goals or recommendations for services (requested by parent)
What is a due process hearing?
Three strategies to combat stressors for first-year special education teachers
What are realistic and flexible goals and objectives, proper priorities, networking with colleagues, leaving your work at school, pacing oneself, taking advantage of professional opportunities, looking for the "silver lining", and keeping one's humor? (Name three.)
PLAAFP
What is "present levels of academic achievement and functional performance"?