Understanding Inclusion & Special Education
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IEPs & More
The Inclusive Classroom
Effective Teaching Strategies
100
A philosophy that brings diverse students, families, educators, and community members together to create schools and other social institutions based on acceptance, belonging, and community.
What is Inclusion?
100
A multidisciplinary, interagency, strength-based, student and family focused process for collaboratively 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 a Wraparound Process?
100
A collaborative data-based decision-making process for establishing and implementing a continuum of research-based schoolwide and individualized instructional and behavioral strategies and services that are available and used to support the learning, socialization, independence, and positive behavior of all students.
What is Schoolwide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports?
100
Used to prepare students for the academic, behavioral, and social expectations of the inclusive setting.
What is Preteaching?
200
Requires schools to educate students with disabilities as much as possible with their peers who do not have disabilities and is determined individually based on the student's educational strengths and challenges rather than the student's disability.
What is the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)?
200
Students are given lessons in the samecurricular areas as their peers but at varying levels of difficulty.
What is Multilevel Teaching?
200
Any item, piece of equipment, or product system, whether bought, modified, or customized--that is used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of the person with a disability.
What is an Assistive Technology Device?
200
Known as the A-B-C's of the inclusive classroom, this analyzes the events, stimuli, objects, actions, and activities that precede and trigger problem behaviors as well as what follows the problem behaviors.
What is an Antecedents-Behavior-Consequences Analysis?
200
A process of unit planning and lesson planning by which you first determine the assessments you will use to evaluate student learning.
What is a Backward Design?
300
Involves delivering and monitoring a specifically designed and coordinated set of comprehensive, evidence-based, and universally designed instructional and assessment practices and related services to students with learning, behavioral, emotional, physical, health, or sensory disabilities.
What is Special Education?
300
Teaching a diverse group of students individualized skills from different curricular areas.
What is Curriculum Overlapping?
300
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 achievment and to address postsecondary goals in the areas of training, education, employment, community participation, and, when appropriate, independent living skills.
What are Transition Services?
300
Focusing on the use of research and function-based interventions designed to address the student's learning and behavior by changing the classroom environment to better accommodate the student's characteristics, strengths, interests, relationships, and cultural and language background and challenges.
What is a Behavioral Support Plan?
300
Assessment strategies that are used to monitor student learning progress bothduring and after instruction.
What are Formative and Summative Assessments?
400
This 1975 act mandates a free and appropriate education be provided to students with disabilities.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (I.D.E.A.)?
400
These modifications alter the content of teh curriculum as well as the ways students are taught and require adjustments in the structure and content of the educational program that affect the level of curricular mastery expected of students.
What are High-Impact Differentiation Teachniques?
400
This group of people includes students and their families, works collaboratively to make decisions related to the special education process, incuding determining whether students are eligible for special education services, identifying unique strengths and challenges of students and developing an IEP, IFSP, or a Section 504 Accommodation Plan to provide appropriate services to special needs students and their families.
What is a Multidisciplinary Team?
400
Interventions that include positive reinforcement and reinforcers, consequence maps, contracting, and Premack's principle.
What are Consequence-based Interventions?
400
A two forms of student motivation that involves taking actions as a result of external consequences such as tangible rewards, and taking actions as a result of internally based consequences such as a sense of mastery and accomplishment.
What are Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation?
500
This method is a multitiered process whereby only students who do not respond to a series of more intensive research-based interventions could be identified as having a learning disability.
What is Response to Intervention?
500
This person created a 3-level continuum for delinating instructional accommodations and differentiation techniques based on their impact on the individual profiles of students and the level of curriculum mastery expected of students.
Who is Stough?
500
A summary statement of students' current acadeemic, socialization, behavioral, communication, and functional skills.
What is Present Levels of Performance?
500
Accommodating diverse learners in the classroom.
What is Differentiated Instruction?
500
An essential component of the RTI which refers to conductiong ongoing assessments to examine and document the impact of your instructional practices on student learning and the effectiveness of your teaching practices and instructional program.
What is Progress Monitoring?