Understanding Inclusion
Differentiating Instruction for Diverse Learners
Differentiating Large and Small Group Instruction
Differentiating Math, Science, and SS
Evaluating Student Progress of the Effectiveness of Your Inclusion Program
100
The requirement of schools to educate students with disabilities as much as possible with their peers who do not have disabilities.
What is the least restrictive environment?
100
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?
100
A collaborative learning technique where groups make up questions that are answered by other groups.
What is Send a Problem?
100
To help students identify the critical information in assignments and provide activities to help students master it.
What is a use of Study Guides?
100
Federally mandated tests that all students are expected to participate in that guide important decisions about their educational programs, including grade-level promotion and graduation.
What is high-stakes testing?
200
Schools must 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 to meet specific learning standards.
What are the provisions of NCLB?
200
Use of assessment strategies during instruction to monitor your students' learning progress and to use this information to make ongoing decisions about the effectiveness of your teaching and ways you can improve it.
What is formative assessment?
200
A cooperative learning strategy that can help students reflect on and master content.
What is Think Pair Share?
200
An ordered list of the chapter's main points with key words blanked out.
What is a framed outline?
200
Variations in testing administration, environment, equipment, technology, and procedures that allow students to access tests and accurately demonstrate their competence, knowledge, and abilities without altering the integrity of the tests.
What are testing accommodations?
300
Law mandating a free and appropriate education be provided to all students with disabilities, regardless of the nature and severity of their disability.
What is IDEA?
300
Your use of assessments at the end of instruction to assess student mastery of specific content, topics, concepts and skills taught, and to communicate this information to others.
What is summative assessment?
300
Students working collaboratively to create and examine solutions to real-life and community-based situations and problems.
What is Problem Based Learning?
300
A study guide designed so that students can collaborate to complete it.
What is an interactive reading guide?
300
A technique in which students state the processes they are using and describe their thoughts while working on a task.
What is the think-aloud technique?
400
Serves a civil rights law for individuals with disabilities that that 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?
400
During and at the end of instructional units allow you to differentiate your assessments to meet the strengths and challenges of individual students by identifying concepts that need to be learned and delineating multiple ways in which students can show mastery that differ in complexity and learning style, and allow students to select how they want to demonstrate their learning.
What are tiered assignments?
400
A statement or enjoyable activity that introduces the material and motivates students to learn by relating the goals of the lesson to their prior knowledge, interests, strengths, and future life events.
What is an anticipatory set?
400
A textbook which presents the same content as the on-grade textbook but at a lower readability level.
What is an adapted textbook?
400
A novel and motivating way to conduct real-time assessments of your students' learning.
What are educational games?
500
Section 504 requires schools to provide eligible students with a free, appropriate public education, which is defined as general or special education that includes related services and reasonable accommodations with their peers without disabilities to the maximum extent possible. Section 504 doesn't require the development of an IEP
How is Section 504 similar to and different from IDEA?
500
Students are given lessons in the same curricular areas as their peers but at varying levels of difficulty; Some students may work on a reduced or increased number of items or more or less complex learning objectives.
What is multilevel teaching?
500
Error correction where you identify errors and show students how to correct them.
What is Corrective Feedback?
500
Written or oral statements, activities, technology-based tasks, and/or illustrations that offer students a framework for determining and understanding the essential information in a learning activity.
What are advance and post organizers?
500
Also called a performance assessment, used to monitor student learning progress and measure the impact of instructional programs and practices by having students work on meaningful, complex, relevant, open-ended learning activities that are incorporated into the assessment process and linked to your curriculum and learning standards.
What are authentic assessments?