Foundations & Fundamentals
Law
RTI
Positive Behavior Intervention
Differentiation
100
delivering and monitoring a specially designed and coordinated set of comprehensive, research-based instructional and assessment practices and related services to students with learning, behavioral, emotional, physical, health, or sensory disabilities.
What is special education?
100
Provide free and appropriate education to all students with disabilities, Educate students with disabilities in the same schools as students without disabilities, Provide procedural safeguards (legal and practical protections) for students with disabilities.
What is Pillars of PL 94-142?
100
A multi-tiered identification and instructional model for assessing the extent to which students respond to and need more intensive and individualized research-based interventions to succeed in the classroom.
What is Response to intervention (RTI)?
100
A collaborative data-based decision making process for establishing and implementing instructional and behavioral strategies and services to support the learning and positive behavior of all students.
What is Schoolwide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS)?
100
Giving students assignments in the same areas of their peers but at different difficulty levels.
What is multilevel teaching?
200
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?
200
Changed title of “Education for All Handicapped Children Act” to “Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
What is Individuals with Disabilities Act of 1990?
200
all students are initially assessed.
What is universal screening?
200
primary prevention, universal interventions and supports are used with all students.
What is Tier 1 in SWPBIS?
200
Teaching students individualized skills from different curricular areas.
What is curriculum overlapping?
300
the environment that will least restrict a student’s intellectual and social growth.
What is least restrictive environment?
300
it qualifies individuals for services if they have a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, have a record of such an impairment, or are regarded by others as having an impairment.
What is Section 504 of the Rehabilitations Act?
300
A series of more intensive, high quality interventions are delivered to identified students. Usually 3 or 4 tiers are used, differing in the interventions used, size of student groups, length of sessions, and frequency of progress monitoring.
What is tiered instruction?
300
secondary prevention intervention, used with students whose behavior does not improve as a result of primary preventive interventions and supports.
What is Tier 2 in SWPBIS?
300
provides students with access to curriculum (e.g., Braille, sign language, assistive technology) and does not change the mastery expected of students.
What is access differentiation technique?
400
providing opportunities, interactions, and experiences for persons with disabilities that parallel those of society.
What is normalization?
400
act that ensures physical access to all public facilities, provides transportation access, provides telecommunications access, requires employers to make reasonable accommodations for employees with disabilities.
What is Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)?
400
educators work together and share expertise.
What is collaboration?
400
tertiary prevention, provides more individualized prevention interventions and supports for students who do not respond to tier 2 or whose behavior requires immediate or more intensive intervention.
What is Tier 3 in SWPBIS?
400
involve adjustments in teaching methods (i.e., the way students are taught), but have minimal to no impact on level of curricular mastery.
What is low-impact differentiation technique?
500
the movement of people with disabilities out of institutions to community-based settings.
What is deinstitutionalization?
500
Zero reject, nondiscriminatory evaluation, free and appropriate education, least restrictive environment, procedural due process, family and student participation.
What are the 6 fundamental principles of the IDEA?
500
measure of students response to interventions.
What is progress monitoring?
500
employ relationship-building strategies, develop student self-esteem, include social skills instruction, use antecedent-based interventions, follow routines, use consequence-based interventions, use group-oriented management systems, employ behavior reduction interventions.
What are ways to promote positive classroom behavior?
500
alter the content of the curriculum, the ways students are taught, or expectations for mastery.
What is high-impact differentiation technique?
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