Strategies
This type of learning is optimal for students who are instinctively aware and in touch with their surroundings, nature, and the outdoors.
What is Naturalistic Learning?
This term refers to the act of providing various avenues of learning and instruction to students to facilitate their varying academic needs.
What is Differentiated Instruction?
This is the act of having the family join and participate in the curriculum to ensure engagement.
What is parent participation?
This term refers to the act of having students compare work and academic progress while also aiding each other in areas where they struggle.
What is peer tutoring?
This strategy consists of displaying the "model" behavior on screen via a video for the target students to observe and learn from.
What is video modeling?
This term refers to the teachers' use of gestures, pictures and demonstrations to facilitate comprehension
What is comprehensible input?
This term refers to the use of related themes across multiple areas of learning to connect the curriculum.
What are Curriculum Themes?
This is the act of providing instruction relative to a students cultural and linguistic heritage.
What is culturally and linguistically relevant instruction and engagement?
This term refers to the act in which small teams, each with students of different levels of ability, use a variety of learning activities to improve their understanding of a subject.
What is cooperative learning?
This strategy consists of having target students observe and learn by watching live models perform the desired behavior.
What is In-vivo modeling?
This term refers to the external tools a teacher may use to assist in the learning process.
What is assistive technology?
This term refers to the act of providing grade-appropriate content, concepts, and skills to the class.
What is providing meaningful access to the core curriculum?
This act refers to the prompt intervention in a student's curriculum to assure proper adjustments are made before any issues arise.
What is early intervention?
These methods are often used to help a student discover the way they learn and improve their studying capability.
What are metacognitive strategies?
This is the second tier of academic intervention, consisting of providing supplemental learning material to the student.
What is Tier II Supplemental Academic Instruction?
This term refers to a guide which helps to illustrate the concepts being taught by a teacher.
What is a pictorial guide?
This teaching strategy consists of having students work together in groups and having them collaborate and share their ideas to reach a common academic goal.
What is Pair and Share?
This support term refers to the act of helping a student differentiate language differences and disabilities.
What is differentiating between language difference and disability?
This strategy was designed as a tool to help students with ASD better understand the nuances of intrapersonal communication.
What are social stories?
This is the third tier of behavioral intervention, where the student is provided with intensified behavioral and emotional support.
What is Intensified Behavioral and Social-Emotional Support?
This term refers to the act of referencing previously learned concepts to reinforce them in the curriculum.
What is drawing on prior knowledge?
This teaching strategy refers to the act of referencing a students home language and culture during the curriculum to maintain relevance.
What is 'Base learning activities on student's home language and culture' ?
This term refers to a series of tests and assessments administered by a teacher to gauge the academic progress of a student.
What are formative assessments?
This is the act of having a group of peers work together to initiate a learning activity.
What is peer initiation training?
This educational framework based upon the research of learning sciences guides the development of learning environments and spaces that can accommodate individual learning differences.
What is Universal Design for Learning?