Week 1
The right to education in general education classroom with services integrated into the general education setting.
What is Inclusion?
Students with ______ make up 5% of the total school population.
What are learning disabilities?
A four-step process including ecological assessments, intervention and preparation, generalization to the new setting, and evaluation in the new environment.
What is transenvironmental programming?
Tailoring curricular goals, individualizing and personalizing the curriculum, using curricular accommodations, and providing personal supports.
What are effective practices of differentiating instruction?
What are some principles of effective early reading interventions?
Part-time placement in the general education classroom with services delivered outside the general classroom.
What is Mainstreaming?
Although originally thought to be present in 3% and 7% of students, this is now rapidly growing and the most common childhood psychiatric condition, affecting an estimated 10% of students, including 20% of males
What is attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)?
Variations of this include comic strip conversations, I WILL cards, and power cards.
What are social stories?
Students share responsibility for reading a text and making sure all group members comprehend it.
What are collaborative reading groups?
A teacher visually displays a word, pronounces it, and asks students to say it. The teacher is:
What is developing a student's vocabulary?
called on schools to restructure and coordinate their efforts and programs to help all students-including those with disabilities-have access to and succeed in the general education curriculum.
What is the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)?
The result of the Supreme Court decision that all undocumented students have the same right as U.S. citizens to attend public schools.
What is Plyler v. Doe (1982)?
This can be developed by teaching goal setting and problem solving, offering choices, and fostering self-awareness.
What are developing students' self-determination skills?
Establishing a relaxed learning environment, consistent use of language, using gestures and facial expressions, using modeling, questions, and art forms to develop students' language competence.
What are examples of Differentiating Instruction for English Language Learners?
Difficulties recognizing and writing numerals, counting without using fingers, and recalling mathematical facts quickly.
What are common characteristics of Students with Mathematical Difficulties?
Zero reject, non-discriminatory evaluation, Free and Appropriate education, least restrictive environment, procedural due process, and family and student participation.
What are the six fundamental principles of IDEA?
Goal and Problem Clarification and Identification, Goal and Problem Analysis, Plan Implementation, Plan Evaluation
What are the steps in collaborative consultation?
When a teacher employs relationship-building strategies by establishing an environment based on mutual respect, actively talking and listening to students, and showing interest in their lives, they are:
What is promoting positive classroom behavior?
Establishing the lesson's purpose by explaining goals and objectives, using task analysis, giving clear, specific, and complete directions, providing time for active and guided practice.
What are some elements of effective teacher-centered instruction?
What are ways to minimize test anxiety?
Universal screening, identification of students, tiered instruction, fidelity of effective interventions, collaboration and progress monitoring.
What are the components of RTI?
Sharing information in a variety of ways and soliciting feedback and inviting parents to volunteer and attend school and classroom events
What are some ways to foster communication and collaboration with families?
Seating arrangements, teacher's desk placement, bulletin boards and walls, and learning centers and specialized areas
What are ways to adapt classroom designs?
Peer tutoring, jigsaw, learning together, establishing guidelines for working cooperatively,
What are some cooperative learning formats?
A teacher pairs students into groups of two and creates and posts expectations for the tutoring groups. The teacher will then progress monitor how well the students are acquiring new information. The teacher is using:
What is Peer-Mediated Intervention?