PART 1
Involves delivering and monitoring a specially designed and coordinated set of comprehensive, universally designed, and evidence-based instructional and assessment practices and related services.
What is Special Education?
understanding their unique abilities and challenges, using transenvironmental programming, identifying and teaching essential classroom procedures and behaviors, and helping students use their skills in different settings.
What are ways to help student transition to inclusive classrooms?
The principles of UDL and using research-based and cul- turally responsive teaching practices
What are the principles you can use for differntiation?
You can grade students in your inclusive classroom by considering and address- ing legal issues, identifying the purpose of grades and the formats for report- ing them, selecting grading systems that support differentiated instruction and content and communication, addressing the special challenges and situations of students and teachers, and using effective practices that support the teaching, learning, and grading processes.
What are ways of grading in inclusive settings?
A phenomenon commonly observed in individuals learning a second language that is characterized by using words, phrases, expressions, and sentences from one language while speaking another language
What is code switching?
is a philosophy that brings students, families, educators, and community members together to create schools based on acceptance, belonging, and commu- nity.
What is Inclusion?
You can develop an SOP and implement an ITP that addresses students’ needs in the areas of employment, independent living arrangements, leisure, and postsec- ondary education and that enhances their quality of life.
What are ways to help students transition to adult life?
You can use a variety of teacher- and student-directed text comprehension strat- egies. In addition, you can make materials more readable by modifying them, reducing their linguistic complexity, incorporating the principles of typographi- cal design, and using instructional technology.
What are ways to differentiate Instruction for Students Who Have Difficulty Reading and Gaining Information from Text-Based Materials?
by using observational and sociometric techniques and self-concept and attitudinal measures.
What are ways of evaluating the Social and Behavioral Performance of My Students?
You can work with students and their families and professionals to create a safe, caring school environment that does not tolerate bullying, victimization, harassment, or violence of any kind. This collaboration should also foster and acknowl- edge acceptance of individual differences and the development of friendships. You should be aware of the warning signs of violence and that students are in crisis and of the steps to take when violence or a crisis occurs
What are ways t prevent students from harming others?
requires that students with disabilities be educated as much as possible with their peers without disabilities.
What is LRE?
You can use relationship-building strategies, social skills instruction, antecedents- based interventions, consequences-based interventions, self-management tech- niques, group-oriented contingency systems, and behavior reduction techniques.
What are ways to promote positive classroom behaviors?
establish the lesson’s purpose and relevance to students; review and assess prerequisite skills; give clear, explicit, and complete directions, explanations, and demonstrations, use modeling, think-alouds, and relevant examples; provide time for active and guided practice; promote active responding and check for understanding; give frequent, prompt, specific, and differentiated instructional feedback; offer time for independent activities; sum- marize main points; and evaluate mastery, maintenance, and generalization.
What is effective teacher centered instruction?
work with others to analyze data on the impact of your inclusive class- room to validate program strengths, identify program components that need revi- sion, and determine strategies for improving the program.
What are ways to enhance your inclusive classroom?
learning disabilities, attention deficit disorders, mild emotional and behavioral disorders, mild intellectual disabilities, and speech/language impairments.
What are high-incidence disabilities?
Before considering a student for special education placement, the planning team uses this
What is a pre-referral system?
You can apply the principles of universal design to adapt your classroom design by considering such factors as seating arrangements, positioning the teacher’s desk, and using a range of classroom design accommodations/strategies
How Can I Adapt the Classroom Design to Support Students’ Learning, Behavioral, Social, and Physical Strengths and Challenges?
1.Think and talk about learning. 2. Aim for team goals. 3. Review team roles and responsibilities. 4. Get materials, supplies, and technology resources. 5. Energize team for learning. 6. Tell other teams about your performance
What is a strategy for developing students' cooperative skills?
A process involving profession- also working together to solve problems and implement mutually agreed-on solutions to prevent and address students’ learning and behavioral difficulties and to coordinate instructional programs
What is collaborative consultation?
Students from specific racial, linguistic, and religious backgrounds; female students; LGBT students; and students with HIV/AIDS can be victims of discrimination, segregation, and bias in society and schools.
What Is the Effect of Discrimination, Segregation, and Bias on Students and Schools?
family members, general and special educators, a representative of the school district who is knowledgeable about the general education curriculum and the availability of resources, an individual who can determine the instructional implications of the evaluation results, and the student, when appropriate.
Who are the members of the multi-disciplinary team?
recognizing and supporting their differences, gaining their trust, advocating for them and their children, ensuring confidentiality, meeting regularly with families, assisting in monitoring the medications their children are taking, resolving conflicts constructively, using written and technology-based communication, encouraging and facilitating observations at the school or via technology, and offering educational programs to families.
What are ways of fostering collaboration and communication with families?
make writing a meaningful, authentic, and integral part of the curricu- lum; use a process-oriented approach to writing instruction; teach students to use learning strategies; and employ technology-supported writing applications.
What are ways to foster students' writing?
A testing system that involves students working collaboratively on open-ended tasks that have nonroutine solutions.
What is cooperative group testing?
Choose text-based instructional materials carefully and teach students how to use them and use study guides, peer-mediated instruction, adapted textbooks, a parallel alternative curriculum, and content enhancements.
What are ways to differentiate Science and SS instruction?