What's the Big IDEA?
The letters IDEA stand for this
What is Individuals With Disabilities Education Act?
The 3 stages of Graduated Instructional Sequence (CRA)
What are concrete, representational, and abstract?
Umbrella term that includes accommodations and modifications that support students with disabilities
What is adaptation?
Values, traditions, languages, symbols, beliefs, and attitudes, as well as the impact of these on one's life perspective
What is culture??
Information cannot become a long-term memory without first entering this
What is short-term memory?
School districts will provide students with special education and related services at public expense in conformity with the IEP
What is Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)?
Reading naturally with appropriate speed and natural expression that mimics spoken language
What is reading fluency?
Services or supports provided to students that do not change the learning objective or assignment expected
What are accommodations?
Using the cultural characteristics,experiences, and perspectives of ethnically diverse students as conduits for teaching them more effectively
What is Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT)?
One of the most important methods for creating a short-term memory
What is repetition?
A "blueprint" of special education services developed for a child after eligibility is determined
What is Individualized Education Program (IEP)?
Story Maps, Venn Diagrams, Thinking Maps
What are graphic organizers?
Provided when a student's needs are so intense accommodations alone will not meet their need; changes occur in the expectations
What are modifications?
Sense of community, sense of adult authority toward children, and gender roles and how they generalize to the classroom
What are areas of culture that influence student learning?
Utilizing strategies to help students create new memories
What is brain-based learning?
To the maximum extent appropriate, children with disabilities must be educated with children who do not have disabilities
What is Least Restrictive Environment?
A series of steps a person purposively takes to complete a goal (especially useful in writing)
What is a strategy?
Instruction on strategies and skills that can help students succeed across classes
What is curricular augmentation?
Different family dynamics, cultural differences, lack of adequate professional development, and the expected role of parents
What are issues that impact communication between home and school?
Memory of facts or events
What is declarative memory?
Parents have a right to this if they do not believe their child's needs are being met or if they disagree with the school district's decision regarding their child
What is Due Process Hearing?
Found most effective to increase writing performance for students with and without disabilities across grade levels
What is clear and systematic strategy instruction?
Practices that are proven to be effective in ensuring that instruction will yield learning
What are Evidence-Based Practices (EBPs)?
Find out their story, avoid assumptions, and disconnect our personal experiences from those of our students
What are strategies to effectively connect/work with families?
Patterns of letters, ideas, or associations that assist in remembering something (example: ROY G BIV)
What are mnemonic devices?