Week 1&2
What is inclusion?
Philosophy that brings diverse students, families, educators and community members together to create schools and other social institutions based on acceptance, belonging and community.
Mild learning disabilities, emotional/behavioral disorders ADHD, speech language disorders and mild intellectual disorders
What is high-incidence disabilities
The transfer of training so students use the skills taught independently in their inclusive classroom
What is generalization
Guided notes
Skeleton outline
Students working in collaborating groups to take a test and each student receives a group grade
Two-tiered testing
Delivering and monitoring a specially designed and coordinated set of comprehensive, evidence based, and universally designed instructional and assessment practices and related services to students with learning, behavioral, emotional, physical health or sensory disabilities.
What is special education
Students with physical sensory, and more significant cognitive disorders
What is low-incidence disabilities
Index cards containing first-person statements that prompt students to engage in appropriate behavior
"I will Cards"
Speed and accuracy of a student when reading orally
Reading fluency
An assessment done at the end of a lesson
Exit slip
Environment that requires schools to educate student with disabilities as much as possible with their peers without disabilities
Least Restrictive Environment
Both teachers teach the same material at the same time to two equal groups of students
What is parallel teaching
Known as "grandma's rule"
What is Premack's Principle
Activity done when completing a writing activity where students discuss and read their writing
Author's chair
Grading system that allows you to report on students mastery within the curriculum
Criterion-referenced grading
Team members include: family members, general and special educators, a representative of the school district and student (sometimes)
What is multidisciplinary team
one teacher works with a smaller group or individual students while the other teacher works with the larger group
What is alternative teaching
Process for planning units of instruction an lessons by which you first determine the assessments you will use to evaluate student learning
Backwards design
First letter mnemonics
Acronyms
Grading system that is based on student mastery on a range of assessments measuring learning objectives aligned to content curricular standards
Standards-based grading system