Principles of Differentiated Instruction
Educators differentiate "what they teach"
What is content?
A philosophy that brings a diverse group of students, families, educators, and community members together to create schools based on acceptance and belonging
What is inclusion?
Strategies that increase the social and academic interactions between students
What are peer-based strategies?
Students work collaboratively on open-ended tasks that have nonroutine solutions
What is cooperative group testing?
Initially known as the Education for All Handicapped Children Act
What is the IDEA?
Educators differentiate "how they teach"
What is the process?
A partial or full-time program that educates students with disabilities with their general education peers
What is mainstreaming?
Students publicly praise their peers for engaging in prosocial behaviors
What is positive peer reporting?
A progress monitoring strategy that provides individualized and repeated measures of students' progress across the curriculum
What is a curriculum-based assessment?
A civil rights act designed to integrate students with disabilities into the social and economic mainstream of society
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
Educators differentiate how students demonstrate content mastery
What is the product?
Educating students with disabilities as much as possible with their peers who do not have disabilities
What is the Least Restrictive Environment?
Each member in a group "thinks" about a question they have from what they just learned, then they "pair-up" with a member in the group to discuss their responses. Finally they "share" what they learned with the rest of the class or group
What is Think, Pair, Share?
Measures of your students' performance on the assessment probe prior to teaching
What is a baseline?
Schools are required to follow this special education document with individually tailored education goals, objectives, services, accommodations and modifications
What is an IEP or Individualized Education Program?
Planning assessments before planning instruction and lessons
What is backward design?
The setting where young children learn everyday skills
What are natural environments?
Direct instruction in the interpersonal, social, and collaborative skills needed to work with others
What are social skills?
Assessing students' learning at the end of the lesson with slips to write down brief answers to your questions
What are exit slips/tickets?
2001 Act that called on schools to restructure and coordinate their efforts and programs to help all students
What is the No Child Left Behind Act?
Use of assessments at the end of instruction to assess student mastery of specific content and topics
What is summative assessment?
Teacher made communication devices, pencil holders, reading masks and strings attached to objects for easy retrieval if they fall on the floor.
What are low-technology devices?
Students feel responsible for their own and the group's effort
What is positive interdependence?
Using numerical or letter grades to compare students using the same academic standards.
What are norm-referenced grading systems?
A test used to make important decisions about students, educators, schools, or districts, most commonly for the purpose of accountability
What is a high-stakes assessment?