Assessments
Disorders
Approaches
Teaching
Misc.
100
Authentic Assessment
What is also know as a performance assessment. A type of assessment where students work on meaningful, complex, relevant, open-ended learning activities.
100
Anorexia
What is a refusal to eat and a disturbed sense of one's body shape or size which results in skeletal thinness and loss of weight that is denied by the individual.
100
Competency Oriented Approach
What is a way of viewing and dealing with students that focuses on their strengths and what they can do rather than seeing them in terms of their challenges and what they cannot do.
100
Alternative Teaching
What is a co-teaching instructional arrangement where one teacher works with a smaller group or individual students while the other teacher works with a larger group
100
Baseline
What is a measurement of students' performance or behavior prior to the initiation of an interview.
200
Formative Assessment
What is the use of assessment strategies during instruction to monitor students' learning progress and to use this information to make ongoing decisions about teaching effectiveness and ways to improve it.
200
Articulation
What is a disorder that is characterized by omissions, substitutions, distortions, and additions of sounds.
200
Learning Experience Reading Approach
What is an instructional approach to teaching reading that is based on the belief that what students think about, they can talk about, what students can say, they can write or have someone write for them, what students can write, they can read.
200
Co-Teaching
What is a teaching arrangement whereby teachers and ancillary support personnel work together to educate all students in general education classrooms.
200
General Feedback
What is a type of feedback in which responses are identified as correct and incorrect.
300
High Stakes Assessment
What is Assessments, typically involving standardized testing, whereby the results are used to make extremely important decisions about students and their educational program.
300
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
What is a psychiatric condition characterized by a persistent pattern of inattention, impulsivity, and or hyperactivity-impulsivity that is more frequent and severe than is typically observed in individuals at a comparable level of development.
300
Learning Together Approach
What is a type of cooperative learning arrangement that involves teams determining how they will approach a task.
300
Parallel Teaching
What is a co-teaching instructional arrangement where both teachers teach the same material at the same time to two equal groups of students.
300
Inclusion
What is an educational philosophy for structuring schools so that all students are educated together in general education classrooms.
400
Portfolio Assessment
What is a type of assessment that involves teachers, students, and family members working together to create a continuous and purposeful collection of various authentic student products.
400
Autism Spectrum Disorder
What is a condition marked by significant difficulties in verbal and nonverbal communication, socialization, and behavior that typically occurs at birth or in the first three years of life.
400
Linguistic Approach
What is a rule-governed spelling approach in which instruction focuses on the rules of the spelling patterns related to whole words.
400
Station Teaching
What is a co-teaching instructional arrangement where both teachers teach different or review content at the same time to two equal groups of students.
400
Language Dominance
What is the language in which the student is most fluent.
500
Summative Assessment
What is the use of assessments at the end of instruction to assess student mastery of specific content, topics, and skills taught, and to communicate this information to others.
500
Epilepsy
What is a condition characterized by seizures that occur on a regular basis.
500
Rule Governed Spelling Approach
What is an instructional approach to teaching spelling based on helping students learn to use more morphemic and phonemic analysis and basic spelling rules.
500
Team-Teaching
What is a co-teaching instructional arrangement where both teachers plan and teach a lesson together.
500
Positive Reinforcers
What is actions or stimuli that increase the probability of a repeated behavior.
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