Inclusion Foundations
A recognition that ALL STUDENTS are capable learners who benefit from a meaningful, challenging and appropriate curriculum delivered within the general education classroom and from universally designed, evidence-based, culturally responsive, and differentiated instruction practices that address their diverse and unique strengths, challenges and experiences.
What is inclusion?
Collaborative teaching whereby teachers work together to educate all students through shared responsibility in the inclusive classroom.
What is co-teaching?
Content, process, product, affect, and learning environment
What do educators differentiate for?
Modeling, presenting material, helping students understand material, and testing students' mastery
What is the model-lead-test approach?
What is high-stakes testing?
The presence of students from a specific group in an educational program that is higher or lower than one would expect based on their representation in the general population of students.
What is disproportionate representation?
Values and perspectives that inform the family's worldview, way of life, priorities and decision making
What are belief systems?
First determine the assessments you will use to evaluate your students' learning
What is backward design?
Terms students encounter across curriculum
What is academic vocabulary?
Variations in test administration, environment, equipment, technology, and procedures
What are testing accommodations?
The most important law relating to special education
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Act?
Newsletters, daily/weekly notes, two-way notebooks, daily/weekly progress reports
What are ways to communicate with families?
Students are given lessons at varying levels of difficulty in the same curriculum
What is multilevel teaching?
Digital pens that help facilitate student writing
What are smart pens?
Review sheets of key concepts, formulas, vocabulary and academic language
What are study guides?
Disability categories such as learning disabilities, mild emotional/behavioral disorders, mild intellectual disabilities, attention deficit disorder, and speech/language disorders.
What are high-incident disabilities?
The unstated, culturally based social skills and rules that are essential to successful functioning in classrooms, schools and social situations
What is the hidden curriculum?
Students take the role of teaching the information
What is reciprocal teaching?
An ordered list of the chapter's main points with key words blanked out
What is a framed outline?
A condition characterized by extreme stress, nervousness, and apprehension that impairs one's ability to perform on tests
What is test anxiety?
Social language skills that guide students in developing social-relationships and conversations.
What is Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS)?
Who are mentors?
Help students identify the major elements of a story
What is story/text mapping?
First-letter mnemonics
What are acronyms?
Students work collaboratively on open-ended tasks that have nonroutine solutions
What is cooperative group testing?