Differentiated Instruction
Educators differentiate these to accommodate diverse learners.
What are content, process, product, affect, and learning environment?
A philosophy that brings diverse students, families, educators, and community members together to create schools and other school institutions based on acceptance, belonging, and community.
What is inclusion?
This, which originated in the field of architecture, is a concept of philosophy and delivery of products and services so that they are usable by individuals with a wide range of capabilities and diversities.
What is universal design?
This 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 Act or IDEA?
This is composed of professionals and family members, with the student when appropriate and they make important decisions concerning the education of students.
What is the multidisciplinary team?
A process for planning units of instruction and individual lessons by which you first determine the assessments you will use to evaluate your students' learning.
What is backward design?
While the concept of inclusion grew out of and replaced this term with which it still shares many philosophical goals and implementation strategies.
What is mainstreaming?
UDL applies universal design to educational settings to providing the appropriate supports and challenges that help all learners access the general education curriculum and succeed in inclusive classrooms by providing multiple means of these.
What are representation, action, and engagement?
Changes to IDEA which address the IEP, family involvement, and the special education identification and prereferral process were included in this.
What is Public Law 108-446: The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 or IDEA 2004?
These components are incorporated in an RTI model.
What are universal screening, evidence-based curricula and intervention, and progress monitoring to assess students' response to intervention?
In this method, you identify concepts that need to be learned, delineate multiple ways in which students can show mastery that differ in complexity and learning preference, and allow students to select how they want to demonstrate their learning.
What is tiered assignments?
1. All learners and equal access; 2. Individual strengths and challenges and diversity; 3. Reflective, universally designed, culturally responsive, evidence-based, and differentiated practices; 4. Community and collaboration
What are the principles of effective inclusion?
Students are taught to evaluate their behavior according to some standard or scale.
What is self-evaluation?
This law was passed by Congress in 1973 and serves as a civil rights law for individuals with disabilities and forbids all institutions receiving federal funds from discriminating against individuals with disabilities in education, employment, housing, and access to public programs and facilities.
What is Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (Public Law 93-112)?
This is defined as any item, piece of equipment, or product system that is used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of an individual with a disability.
What is an assistive technology device?
Text comprehension skills can be improved by this, which involves a dialogue between you and your students.
What is reciprocal teaching?
Inclusion is rooted in this, which requires schools to educate students with disabilities as much as possible with their peers who do not have disabilities.
What is least restrictive environment or LRE?
These foster reading fluency and text comprehension for a broad range of students.
What are digital books?
The U.S. Supreme Court extended the concept of equal educational opportunity to include special language programs and English language learners.
What is Lau v. Nichols (1974)?
For students who are 16, the IEP must include this, which is a component that addresses natural transition points and includes a set of coordinated activities, within a results-oriented process that is designed to improve the students' academic and functional achievement, and to address postsecondary goals in the areas of training, education, employment, community participation, and independent living skills.
What is a transition services component?
Students read a paragraph orally and then state its main idea in 10 words or less by identifying the most important information about who or what the paragraph is about.
What is paragraph shrinking?
As a highly effective educator who is committed to inclusion, professionalism, and lifelong learning you should strive to be this.
What is an evidence-based educator?
One frequently used testing accommodation is the use of this, someone who orally presents the test directions and items to students by reading them aloud to students.
Who is a proctor or reader?
The supreme court ruled that school districts may provide on-site special education and related services to students with disabilities attending religious schools.
What is Agostini v. Felton (1997)?
Effective teams engage in this, a multidisciplinary, interagency, strength-based, and student- and family-focused process for collaboratively designing and delivering individualized, culturally sensitive, school- and community-based educational, counseling, medical, and vocational services to identify and address the unique strengths, challenges, and behaviors of students and their families.
What is wraparound process?