Special Education
basics
basics
written individualized program listing the special education and related services students with disabilities will receive to address their unique strengths and challenges
What is an IEP?
transitioning to general education classrooms, transitioning culturally and linguistically diverse students, transitioning to new schools, and transitioning to adulthood.
What are types of transitions?
an assessment that measures students behavior, determines what, when, where, why about behaviors, identifies variables that lead to or maintain behaviors and interventions to address the purpose of the behavior
What is a functional behavioral assessment?
content, process, product, affect, and learning environment
What are ways teachers differentiate?
designing and implementation of flexible curriculum and teaching and assessment materials and strategies, learning environments, and interactions with others o that they are inclusive of all students, families, and professionals.
What is universal design?
a problem solving process that involves a team of educators that help teachers address challenges of students prior to special education placement
What is prereferral system?
process that involves analyzing the learning environments that affect student performance
What is ecological assessment?
action taken or stimulus given after a behavior that increases the likelihood of it occurring again or at a higher rate
What is positive reinforcement?
breaking down tasks into smaller components that promotes understanding is know as
What is scaffolding?
Using visual, linguistic, and and conceptual representations are ways to enhance
What is memory?
team of educational professional including family members and student that make important educational decisions including special education placement
What is a multidisciplinary team?
a technique used to prepare students for academic, behavioral and social expectations of a new classroom to introduce them to things such as curriculum, teaching style and instructional format
What is preteaching?
Allowing students to do something they like if they do something they like less first
What is the Premack principle?
Text comprehension strategies are known as directed by
Who is teacher or student?
progress monitoring system that provides individualized, brief, direct and repeated measures of student proficiency and progress across the curriculum
What is curriculum-based assessment ?
a principle that calls for all schools to educate their students with disabilities as much as possible with their peers that do not have disabilities
What is least restrictive environment?
transfer of skills across settings and situations
What is generalization?
A token economy is known as this type group reinforcement system
What is an Independent group system?
Reciprocal teaching, collaborative reading groups, and story/text mapping are known as what type of strategy
What is teacher centered?
samples across time and content areas, a continuous and purposeful record of authentic student products
What is Portfolio Assessment?
Law that mandates that all students are provided a free and appropriate education to all students with disabilities, regardless of nature and severity of the disability
What is IDEA?
Functional curriculum and community based learning, develop self-determination, self-awareness, self-advocacy, and leadership skills
What is preparing students for employment
Planned ignoring, interspersed requests, redirections, antiseptic bouncing, and choice statements are examples of this
What is behavior reduction interventions?
visual imagery, verbal rehearsals, summarizing and finding the main idea
What is student directed comprehension strategies
Important tool used to differentiate during small and large group instruction, individually and essential as determined by UDL, the common core standards and the end of this school year
What is technology?