Mandated Forms
What MUST be completed and returned by the parent/ guardian before a student is evaluated for special education services?
Permission to Evaluate
This instructional strategy can be used in a checklist format, where large tasks are broken down into smaller more manageable steps.
Task analysis
Missing the bus is an example of a __________ ______________; whereas, being given a non-preferred task is an example of an ________________.
Setting event; antecedent
When is the due date for an annual IEP?
a year minus a day from the previous IEP
If included within the general education setting, it is not mandatory that a general education teacher be part of an IEP team.
False, it is mandatory
The parent must sign that a copy of this notice was provided at the RR/ IEP meeting. It explains parental rights and steps to take if due process should be necessary.
Procedural Safeguards
This strategy uses video recording to present the learner with a skill to observe and learn from.
Video Modeling
These may be tangible or intangible and may include activities.
Reinforcers
What is the largest disability category?
Specific Learning Disability
Supportive teaching takes place when teachers present the SAME lesson separately to different groups of students.
False, what is parallel teaching
This mandated form is required when a student changes educational placement.
NOREP (Notice of Recommended Educational Placement)
Explain MTSS (Multi-tiered System of Supports)
a framework for enhancing the implementation of evidence-based practices to achieve important outcomes for every student
Within an IEP (on the "Special Considerations" page), if you check "yes" that a student has behaviors that impede his/ her learning or that of others, a _________________ must be completed.
Behavior Intervention Plan
What is the timeline for completion of Reevaluation Reports?
Every 2 years for Intellectual Disability
Every 3 years for Autism and other diagnoses
The understanding that speech consists of sounds and syllables is phonology.
True
This document specifies whether the student qualifies for special education services and identifies the student's primary (and possibly secondary) disability category.
Evaluation Report
Why should we begin lessons with short review of previous learning?
To ensure the most success for the student at the beginning of the lesson. Most likely if the student hasn't retained prior knowledge, he/ she will not be able to grasp the learning targets for the next lesson.
Engaging in a less preferred activity before a more preferred task
(Ex: First classwork, then sensory break)
Premack Principle
Explain the difference between accommodation vs. modification.
Accommodations alter how a student learns
(ex: small group instruction, extended time, enlarged print).
Modifications are very fundamental changes in the curriculum
(ex: providing texts that are easier to read, alternate projects, shortening the length of assignment)
It is acceptable for a paraprofessional to communicate with parents about behaviors that took place within the classroom.
False, communication should be between the teacher and parents
This document lays out the special education instruction, supports, and services a student needs to thrive in school.
IEP (Individualized Education Plan)
In your own words describe Universal Design for Learning (UDL).
UDL guides the design of learning experiences to proactively meet the needs of all learners.
Stating the work assignment that the learner has contracted to complete and the consequences
Contingency Contracting
Explain the order in which you would target these behaviors (continually cutting in line, skipping class to stalk a classmate, muttering inappropriate verbalizations during class time).
1st- skipping class to stalk a classmate
2nd- inappropriate verbalizations during class
3rd- cutting in line
For a student that receives speech and language therapy, he/ she does not require an evaluation report or an IEP.
False, both are required. The evaluation report will state the primary disability category as speech and language impairment