Instructional Practices
Written instructions for a class session that includes a learning objective, introduction, teacher and student actions, assessments, materials, and resources.
What is a Lesson Plan?
A plan that provides special services such as accommodations for students who have an identified disability but do not qualify for an Individualized Education Program; Provides opportunities for academic success for students who qualify.
What is a 504 Plan?
They work with students to correct speech impediments, communication, and assess students' growth and abilities in speech.
Money collected from the government when people pay for services and merchandise.
What is Sales Tax?
Any piece of equipment or technology used to aid and assist students with disabilities.
What is Adaptive/Assistive Technology?
An informal check for understanding where a teacher measures the progress of student learning.
What is Formative Assessment?
A principal of law from the Individuals with Disabilities Act stating students are entitled to a free and appropriate education regardless of disabilities or special needs.
What is Free and Appropriate Education (FAPE)?
What are School Psychologists?
Money that families are required to pay by a school in order to pay for school needs such as teachers, supplies, etc.
What is Tuition?
The Supreme Court case that overturned segregation in public spaces, overturned the ruling of separate but equal.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Adjusting existing lesson plans or changing settings, delivery methods and assessment techniques to ensure student success.
What is Accommodation?
The way of life common to a group of people that possibly includes similar experiences, cuisines, beliefs, values, attitudes, and religion which is acquired by a group of people in the course of generations.
What is culture?
A member of the school staff whose primary responsibility is to support instructional programs under the direction of staff who have professional certificates.
What is Paraprofessional?
A supervisor whose tasks range from curriculum development to student discipline.
What is an Administrator?
A set of teaching and learning tools designed to enhance a student's learning experience by including computers and the Internet in the learning process.
What is Virtual Learning?
An inclusive term used to describe a multitude of health issues, such as heightened or limited alertness, asthma, diabetes, etc.
What is Other Health Impairment (OHI)?
A student with a disability will be placed into an educational program to the full extent that they will be accommodated.
What is Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)?
A person who holds a higher degree that advises students on class schedules, academics, and helps students focus on post-secondary experiences.
What is a Counselor?
An administrator who oversees all schools within a school district.
A time period of education that is a legal requirement for individuals.
What is Compulsory Education?
The name of Howard Gardner's theory that classifies different learner strengths into the following categories: visual/spatial, logical/mathematical, naturalistic, linguistic, bodily/kinesthetic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal
What is Multiple Intelligences?
A class that all public school teachers are required to pass in order to support English Language Learners (ELL) students
What is Structured English Immersion (SEI)?
They are a licensed professional who helps injured and/or disabled students with basic life skills.
What is an Occupational Therapist?
An official hierarchy of authority that dictates who is in charge of whom.
What is Chain of Command?
A school of educational philosophy that believes schools have a responsibility in rebuilding society and eliminating social injustices.
What is Reconstructivism?