Special Education ID Process
High Incidence Disabilities
Behavior Interventions
Differentiating Instruction
Evaluating Progress
100
Services that are offered to resolve differences.
What is mediation?
100
The disability category that includes: learning disabilities, mild emotional/behavioral disorders, mild intellectual disabilities, attention deficit disorders, and speech/language disorders.
What are high-incidence disabilities?
100
Actions or stimuli that increase the probability of a repeated behavior, such as smiling or giving a thumbs up.
What are positive reinforcers?
100
A process for planning units of instruction and individual lessons by first determining the assessments that will be used, should be done before planning instructional activities.
What is backward design?
100
Federally mandated, summative common assessments that all students, including those with disabilities, must take.
What is high-stakes testing?
200
A team composed of professionals and family members who make important decisions concerning the education of students.
What is a multidisciplinary team?
200
A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or using spoken or written language that may appear as an impaired ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do math.
What is a specific learning disability?
200
Also called "Grandma's rule", the rule that students can do something they like if they complete the less popular task first.
What is Premark's principle?
200
Assignments during and at the end of instructional units that allow the teacher to differentiate assessments to meet the strengths and challenges of individual students.
What are tiered assignments?
200
Variations in testing administration, environment, equipment, technology, and procedures that allow students to access tests and accurately demonstrate their competence, knowledge, and abilities without altering the integrity of the tests.
What are testing accommodations?
300
When teachers conduct ongoing assessments to make data-based decisions regarding students' learning progress and the effectiveness of instructional practices.
What is progress monitoring?
300
When a student has difficulty with identifying letters and their sounds, fluent reading, listening, learning vocabulary, and comprehending what they read.
What is dyslexia?
300
A written agreement between the teacher and student that outlines the behaviors and results of a specific behavior management system.
What is a contract?
300
When students are given lessons in the same curricular areas as their peers but at varying levels of difficulty.
What is multilevel teaching?
300
This is a variety of cooperative group testing where students work in collaborative groups to take a test and each student receives the group grade.
What is two-tiered testing?
400
A graduated series of more intensive, high-quality classroom, group, and individualized instruction and interventions that are delivered to the students who need them.
What is tiered instruction?
400
The most common childhood psychiatric condition, in which children have difficulty identifying and maintaining attention to relevant classroom directions, information, and stimuli.
What is attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)?
400
A non punitive way to redirect students and break an escalating cycle of misbehavior by asking the student to leave the room and perform an errand.
What is antiseptic bouncing?
400
An effective form of instruction to use with ELL students, also called content-based instruction. It uses cues, gestures, technology, manipulative, drama, and visual stimuli and aids to teach new vocabulary and concepts.
What is sheltered instruction?
400
This is 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?
500
A multi-level prevention, assessment, and instructional data-based decision model for assessing how students respond to interventions.
What is RTI?
500
This describes a student who may stutter, have impaired articulation, a language impairment, or a voice impairment, that adversely affects educational performance.
What is a speech and language impairment?
500
A strategy to use when several students in a class have a behavior problem, since it is applied to the entire group and its success depends on the behavior of the group.
What is an interdependent group system?
500
A model used by many schools to incorporate English language instruction into content instruction, which includes eight components: preparation, building background, comprehensible input, strategies, interaction, practice, delivery, and review/assessment.
What is the SIOP model?
500
A form of assessment that involves teachers, students, and family members working together to create a continuous and purposeful collection of various authentic student products across a range of content areas throughout the school year that show the process and products associated with student learning.
What is portfolio assessment?
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