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These are students who require special education and related services to realize their full potential. Categories include mentally challenged, gifted, learning disabled, emotionally disturbed, and physically disabled.
What are exceptional learners?
Programs and instruction for children with physical, mental, emotional, or learning disabilities or gifted students who need special educational services to achieve at their ability level.
What is special education?
This is the process through which children and adults understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.
What is social and emotional learning (SEL)?
This is a curriculum that offers college-level courses to high school students. Students who score high enough on a qualifying exam can earn college credit.
What is advanced placement (AP)?
The more rapid promotion of gifted students through school.
What are accelerated programs?
This is a theory developed by Carol Dweck that views intelligence as finite, determined at birth, and unchangeable.
What is fixed mindset?
A theory developed by Carol Dweck that views intelligence as developing through an individual's life.
What is growth mindset?
Individuals with exceptional ability, five elements include artistic and creative talents, intellectual and academic abilities, and leadership skills.
What is giftedness?
This is a program best suited to meeting a disabled student's special needs without segregating the student from the regular educational program.
This is a federal law passed in 1990 that extends full education services and provisions to people identified with disabilities.
What is IDEA?
The theory developed by Howard Gardner to expand the concept of human intelligence to include areas as logical mathematical, linguistic, bodily kinesthetic, musical, spatial, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist.
What are multiple intelligences?
An educationally significant language and/or learning deficit.
A theory suggesting that males and females are more alike than different on most psychological and intellectual variables and therefore do not demonstrate gender-specific learning styles that require unique teaching approaches.
What is gender similarities hypothesis?
The tendency to process information by looking for, or interpreting, information that is consistent with one's existing beliefs.
What is conformation bias?
The principle that no child with disabilities may be denied a free and appropriate public education.
What is zero reject?
This is a principle, based on the 5th and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, that mandates that children with disabilities be fairly assessed so that they can be protected from inappropriate classification and tracking.
What is nondiscriminatory education?
This is a new human dimension that measures personality characteristics, such as persistence.Some believe that EQ scores may be better predictors of future success than IQ scores.
What is emotional intelligence quotient?
The practice of educating and integrating children with disabilities into regular classroom settings full time.
What is inclusion?
This is the awareness of one's own learning processes and the ability to monitor one's understanding.
What is metacognition?
This is the inclusion of special education students in the regular education program for some of the day.
What is mainstreaming?