Terms
Teaching Styles
Programs
Options for Teachers
Misc.
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What is a student with exceptionalities?
Students who need special help to reach their full potential
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What is mainstreaming?
The practice of placing students with exceptionalities from segregated settings in regular education classrooms
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What is IDEA?
IDEA Guarantees an appropriate education for all students with exceptionalities. Involves parents in decisions about each child's educational program. Develops an individualized education program for each student
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What are some acceleration options?
Early admission to kindergarten and first grade Grade and subject skipping Credit by exam College courses in high school Correspondence courses Early admission to college
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Only 3% of children with disabilities spend all their time in the general education classroom. True or False
True
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What are disabilities?
Limitations in an ability to perform a certain act
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What is inclusion?
A comprehensive approach to educating students with exceptionalities that incorporates a total, systematic, and coordinated web of services.
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What does an IEP include?
An assessment of the student’s current level of performance, long and short term objectives, services or strategies to ensure the student's academic progress, schedules for implementing the plan and criteria for evaluating the plans success
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What are some enrichment Options?
Independent study and independent projects Learning centers Field trips Saturday and summer programs Simulations and games Small-group inquiry and investigations Academic competitions
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60% spend over 50% of their day in the general education classroom. True of False
False. 60% spend over 20% of their day in the general education classroom.
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What is giftedness?
Abilities at the upper end of the continuum
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What are the three major components of inclusion?
Include students with special needs in a regular school campus, place students with special needs in age- and grade- appropriate classrooms and provide special education support within the regular classroom
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What is an individualized family service plan?
It provides the same type of planned care as an IEP but targets developmentally delayed preschool children.
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What are some instructional modifications?
Teaching in small steps and providing detailed feedback and homework Involving students with exceptionalities by calling on them as often as other students in your class Carefully modeling solutions to problems and other assignments Providing outlines, charts, hierarchies, and other forms of organization for the content you're teaching Increasing the amount of time available for tests and quizzes Utilizing available technology Teaching learning strategies
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In collaboration, special and regular education teachers work separately to ensure that learning experiences are integrated into the regular classroom curriculum. True or False
False. In collaboration, special and regular education teachers work CLOSELY to ensure that learning experiences are integrated into the regular classroom curriculum.
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