Week 1
This requires that schools educate students with disabilities as much as possible with their peers who do not have disabilities.
What is the least restrictive environment (LRE)?
This refers to the degree of skill in speaking a language.
What is language proficiency?
This assessment involves analyzing the critical features of the learning environment and the key skills that affect student academic, behavioral, and social performance and interviewing teachers and students.
What is ecological assessment?
A process for planning units of instruction and individual lessons by which you first determine the assessments you will use to evaluate your students' learning.
What is a backward design?
This refers to the terms that students encounter across the curriculum as well as the technical language associated with specific content areas.
What is academic language?
This act called on schools to restructure and coordinate their efforts to help all students have access to and succeed in the general education curriculum.
What is the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)?
This refers to the social language skills that guide students in developing social relationships.
What is basic interpersonal communication skills (BICS)?
This is known as 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?
Teaching that involves providing different students with different ways of learning.
What is differentiated instruction?
This type of strategy teaches letters and words using combinations of visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile modalities.
What is multisensory strategies?
This mandates that a free and appropriate education be given to all students with disabilities, regardless of the severity and nature of their disability.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA)?
This refers to the language skills that relate to literacy, cognitive development, and academic development
What is cognitive / academic language proficiency (CALP)?
In this type of curriculum, goals, and methods tailored to individual students prepare them for a successful transition to adult living.
What is a functional curriculum?
Finding the main idea, predicting, and surveying are examples of this type of strategy.
Focus instruction and use a problem-solving approach is an example of differentiated this type of instruction.
What is differentiated mathematics instruction?
This part of the IEP provides a summary of the student's current academic, socialization, behavioral, communication, and functional skills.
What is the present levels of performance?
Family members, school administrators, general educators, special educators, paraeducators, school psychologists speech and language clinicians, social workers, and school counselors are all examples of what makes up this type of planning team.
What is the comprehensive planning team?
A person-centered, multi-method problem-solving process that involves gathering information to measure and determine student behaviors.
What is a functional behavioral assessment (FBA)?
Highlighting essential information, using instructional technology, and adjusting the complexity of text language are examples of what differentiated method.
What is enhancing the readability of materials?
Variations in testing administration, environment, equipment, technology, and procedures that allow students to access tests and accurately demonstrate their competence, knowledge, and abilities without altering the integrity of the tests.
What are testing accommodations?
This must be included in the IEP for students who are 16 years old and older.
What is transition services?
Offering social skills instruction, fostering communication among students, and using circles of friends are examples of doing what?
Facilitating friendships.
Using positive reinforcement, selecting appropriate reinforcers, and administering reinforcement and preference surveys are all examples of using this type of intervention.
What is a consequence-based intervention?
This type of curriculum teaches information about all groups to all students.
What is a multicultural curriculum?
A progress-monitoring strategy that provides individualized, brief direct, and repeated measures of students' proficiency and progress across the curriculum.
What is a curriculum-based assessment?