Understanding Inclusion
A philosophy that brings diverse students, families and educators together to create schools and other institutions that are accepting and community driven.
What is Inclusion?
The service offered when disagreements arise between a family and the school district.
What is mediation?
When 2 teachers work together to educate all students in an inclusion classroom.
What is co-teaching or cooperative teaching?
A person-centered, multi-method, problem solving process that involves gathering information that, among other things, measures student behavior.
What is an FBA (functional behavioral assessment)?
Summative common assessments, that usually involves students taking standardized tests that measure their mastery of benchmarks.
What is high-stakes testing?
Programs that educates students with disabilities with their general education peers.
Whats is mainstreaming?
Development and use of ways to identify students with disabilities and their needs.
What is RTI (response to intervention)?
A logical relationship between the curriculum, learning goals, teaching materials and supportive materials/programs.
What is congruence?
An observable and measurable action by a student in a given situation.
What is a defined behavior?
Extreme stress, nervousness and apprehension that impairs a students ability to perform at their peak abilities on a given assessment.
What is test anxiety?
Requires schools to educate students with disabilities with their peers who do not have disabilities as much as possible.
What is LRE (least restrictive environment)?
IEP component that addresses where a student is academically.
What is Present level of academic performance?
Supportive instructional reinforcement skills, previously introduced in the inclusion classroom.
What is the post hoc model?
Used to determine the delay between recieving instructions and beginning a task.
What is a latency recording?
When students work collaboratively on open-ended tasks that have nonroutine solutions.
What is cooperative group testing?
Room that is used for direct services for students withe disabilities throughout the school day.
What is a resource room?
Stands for Individual Educational Plan.
What is an IEP?
The individuals with disabilities in education act.
What is IDEA?
When an observing counting and documenting the amount of times a behavior occurs and the duration for which the behavior occurs.
What is event recording
A progress-monitoring strategy that provides individualized, direct, and repeated measures of a students proficiency and progress across the curriculum.
What is curriculum-based assessment?
Schools that students live at and participate in 24-hour programming.
What are residential schools?
They instruct students whose primary language is not english in English and build on existing language skills.
Who are ESL (English as a second language) teachers?
Individuals who guide families through the special education process, make them aware of their rights and help to represent them and their child when dealing with the school district.
What are family advocates?
A narrative of the events that took place during an observed time period.
What is an anecdotal record?
When you monitor student learning progress and measure the impact of your instructional programs on your students academic performance.
What are authentic or performance assessments?