Chapters 1
(Basics of Special Education)
Chapters 2-4
(Strengths and Challenges)
Chapters 5-7
(Positive Classroom Environment and Collaboration)
Chapters 8-9
(Differentiating)
Chapters 10-12
(Differentiating Curriculum Instruction)
100
A philosophy that brings diverse students, families, educators, and community members together to create schools and other social institutions based on acceptance, belonging, and community.
What is inclusion
100
A person centered planning and strength based assessment system
What is Map Action Planning System (MAPS)
100
The form of teaching where teachers work together to educate all students in inclusive classrooms.
What is co-teaching
100
While other students are classifying and comparing the planets, Joe is sorting the planets by size and color. This is an example of what kind of teaching?
What is multilevel teaching
100
The processing and manipulation of the different sounds that make up words and the understanding that spoken and written language are linked.
What is phonemic awareness
200
This requires schools to educate students with disabilities as much as possible with their peers who do not have disabilities.
What is least restrictive environment
200
The type of disability for those students who suffer from learning disabilities, emotional/behavior disorders, intellectual disabilities, attention deficit disorders, and speech/language disorders.
What is high incidence disabilities
200
The teaching arrangement where both teachers teach the same material at the same time to two equal groups of students.
What is parallel teaching
200
Approaches that foster learning through verbal and written dialogues between students/teachers and students/students
What is Reciprocal Interaction Teaching Approaches (RITA)
200
Cues that deal with the grammatical structure of the sentence containing the word.
What is syntactic cues
300
This court decision helped establish the precedent for educating students with disabilities in the public school system.
What is Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children vs. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1972)
300
The social language skills that guide students in developing social relationships and engaging in casual face-to-face conversation.
What is Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS)
300
An assessment that is performed to analyze the features of the learning environment to determine what may affect student academic, behavioral, and social performance.
What is ecological assessment
300
A type of outline that presents a sequential overview of the key terms and main points including visual cues.
What is a skeleton outline
300
An approach that uses students' natural language and experiences in and out of school to promote their literacy.
What is whole language approach
400
This is an individually tailored education plan for each student that schools must follow.
What is an individualized education program (IEP)
400
This type of education seeks to help educators acknowledge and understand the increasing diversity in society and the classroom, and to see their students' diverse backgrounds as assets that can support teaching and student learning.
What is Multicultural Education
400
An intervention where the teacher uses the curriculum, instructional materials, teaching style, and instructional format of the teachers in inclusive classrooms.
What is pre-teaching
400
A statement or engaging activity that introduces the content, skills, and strategies and motivates students to learn them by relating the goals of the lesson to other ideas or concepts.
What is anticipatory set
400
A type of instruction that allows students to work in groups to ask questions, share ideas, clarify thoughts, experiment, brainstorm, and present solutions with their classmates.
What is peer-mediated instruction
500
This act mandates that a free and appropriate education be provided to all students with disabilities, regardless of the nature and severity of their disability.
What is Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
500
The strategy of familiarizing students with new activities, information, routines, strategies, and materials prior to introducing them in class.
What is priming
500
An analysis that is used to collect data to identify the possible causes and consequences associated with a student's problem behaviors.
What is ABC Analysis (Antecedents-Behavior-Consequences)
500
A type of feedback where the teacher acknowledges the student's answer and reinforces it by restating why it was correct.
What is process feedback
500
An assessment that is used to monitor student learning progress and measure the impact of instructional programs based on the students' academic performance.
What is authentic or performance assessment.