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Foundations and Fundamentals (Ch. 1-4)
Creating an Inclusive Environment (Ch. 5-7)
Differentiating Instruction (Ch. 8 & 9)
Differentiating Instruction (Ch. 10 & 11)
Evaluating Progress (Ch. 12)
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This is the educational philosophy that brings students, families, educators, and community members together to create schools based on acceptance, belonging, and community.
What is inclusion?
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This is a practice in which teachers share responsibility and accountability for planning, differentiating, and delivering instruction and evaluating, grading, and disciplining students.
What is co-teaching (or cooperative or collaborative teaching)?
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This is a process for planning units and lessons that involves first determining the assessments that will be used to evaluate student learning.
What is backward design?
100
This type of reading cue includes syntactic, semantic, and picture features of the text that can help students determine the pronunciation of unknown words.
What are context cues?
100
These testing accommodations involve changes in the way students respond to test items or determine their answers.
What are response-mode testing accommodations?
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This legislation 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 the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA?
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This is a plan that helps students address the areas of employment, independent living arrangements, leisure, post-secondary education, and developing their self-determination as they ready themselves for adulthood.
What is an Individualized Transition Plan, or ITP?
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Teaching approach that involves breaking down concepts that students do not understand or tasks that students have difficulty performing into smaller components that promote understanding or mastery.
What is scaffolding?
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This approach to reading instruction is based on the belief that what students think about, they can talk about; what students can say, they can write or have someone write for them; and what students can write, they can read.
What is the language experience reading approach?
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This is the practice of using test items whose correct answers require students to answer preceding questions correctly.
What is hinging?
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This is a written, individualized education program listing the special education and related services that students with disabilities will receive to address their unique academic, social, behavioral, communication, functional, and physical strengths and challenges.
What is an Individualized Education Program, or IEP?
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These narratives are characterized by being individualized, brief, predictable, and easy-to-follow. They are written from the viewpoint of students and describe social situations, the perspectives of others, relevant social cues, appropriate social behaviors, and ways to engage in and the consequences for demonstrating appropriate behaviors.
What are social stories, or social narratives?
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These are differentiation techniques that involve adjustments in teaching methods but have minimal to no impact on the level of curricular mastery expected of students.
What are low-impact differentiation techniques?
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This is a collaborative writing strategy designed to create a community of writers in which students write and receive feedback from peers and teachers on topics they select.
What is writers' workshop?
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This is a progress-monitoring strategy that provides individualized, brief, direct, and repeated measures of students' proficiency and progress across the curriculum.
What is curriculum-based assessment?
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This is an instructional approach that provides reasonable and acceptable accommodations, research-based practices, and technologies that allows educators to differentiate their instruction so that their students can participate in and have access to all aspects of inclusive classrooms.
What is Universal Design Learning, or UDL?
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This is a collaborative data-based decision-making process for establishing and implementing a continuum of research-based school-wide and individualized instructional and behavioral strategies and services that are available and used to support the learning, socialization, independence, and positive behavior of all students.
What are School-wide Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports, or SWPBIS?
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Using this model, teaching practices progress from being teacher-directed to being student-directed.
What is the gradual release model?
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This has been shown to be an effective developmental instructional sequence for teaching a wide range of mathematics content.
What is Concrete-Representational-Abstract, or CRA?
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These are brief descriptions that identify portfolio items, providing the context in which the item was produced and reflecting on why it was selected for inclusion in the portfolio.
What are caption statements?
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This type of curriculum includes a variety of activities to teach students to be sensitive to the needs of others, think critically, interact with others, and develop a positive self-identity based on one's own strengths rather than on the weaknesses of others.
What is antibias curricula?
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This is a person-centered, multi-method problem-solving process intended to help educators and family members develop a plan to change student behavior by examining the causes and functions of the behavior and identifying strategies that address the conditions in which the behavior is most and least likely to occur.
What is a Functional Behavioral Assessment, or FBA?
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When using cooperative learning arrangements, it is important to build individual accountability to help reduce this effect, in which some group members fail to contribute and allow others to do the majority of the work.
What is the free-rider effect?
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These are teaching strategies that help students identify, organize, understand, and remember important content and generalize their learning to a range of situations.
What are content enhancements?
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This concept refers to the idea that testing accommodations selected for students with disabilities should boost their performance and, if used by their classmates, should have a minimal impact on their classmates' test performance.
What is a "differential boost"?