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Delivering and monitoring a specially designed and coordinated set of comprehensive, research-based instructional and assessment practices and related services to students with learning, behavioral, emotional physical, health, or sensory disabilities.
What is Special Education?
A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or using spoken or written language that may appear as an impaired ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell or do mathematical calculations. (Federal Government definition)
What is a Specific Learning Disability
A person-centered, multi-method, problem-solving process that involves gathering information to: Measure students behaviors, determine why, where, and when a students uses these behaviors, identify academic, instructional, social, affective, and cultural, environmental, and contextual variables that appear to lead to and maintain the behaviors, plan appropriate interventions that address the behaviors.
What is a functional behavioral assessment? (FBA)
Targeted instruction to improve a specific skill. Based on a child's needs, supplement the general education program, use evidence based strategies and techniques, help students improve a skill or learn to apply existing skills to new situations.
What are interventionn?
What is curriculum based assessment?
What are features of special education?
What are learning strategies?
Event Recording, Duration and Latency Recording, Anecdotal Recording, and Interval Recording or Time Sampling
What are Observational Recording Systems?
Before planning instructional activities, first determine the assessments that will be used to evaluate students'' learning and then use them as a guide for designing and sequencing the instructional activities.
What is backward design?
What is phonemic awareness?
Recognizes that all students are learners who might benefit from a meaningful, challenging, and appropriate curriculum delivered within the general education classroom, and from differentiated instruction techniques that address their diverse and unique strengths, challenges and experiences (Forlin, 2008; Giangreco, 2007; Tomlinson, Brimijoin, & Narvaez, 2008).
What is Inclusion?
Teachers work together to educate all students in inclusive classrooms, they share responsibilities and accountability for planning, differentiating, and delivering instruction and evaluating, grading, and disciplining students.
What is co-teaching? (cooperative or collaborative teaching)
A plan that focuses on how the learning environment will change to address a student's behavior, characteristics, strengths, and challenges. It includes specific measurable goals for appropriate behavior.
What is a Behavioral Intervention Plan?
A change to teaching or testing that removes barriers and provides equal access to learning. Academic expectations are not lowered
What are accommodations?
A process of conducting ongoing assessments to examine students' learning progress overtime.
What is progress monitoring?
Effective inclusion improves the educational system regardless of ethnicity, family structure, culture, religion, sexual orientation
What is all learners and equal access?
1) goal and problem clarification and identification
2) goal and problem analysis
3)plan implementation
What are steps in collaborative consultation?
Redirection, precision requests (use polite, calm voice to state a student's name and a concise description of desired behavior), Choice statements (prompt students to choose between positive behavior and accepting consequences), interspersed requests, planned ignoring, careful reprimands,
What are behavior reduction interventions?
1)Assessments used during instruction to monitor students' learning and to make ongoing decisions about teaching effectiveness.
2)Assessments use at the end of instruction to assess student mastery.
What are formative and summative assessments?
The awareness of sound. Leads to develop students ability to hear rhymes and identify sounds.
What is phonological awareness?
Thoughtfulness, flexibility, responsive to student needs, awareness of student strengths
What are Reflective practices and differentiated instruction?
Teachers who support the academic, language, social, and behavioral development of all students by using curricula, instructional, assessment, classroom management, and family involvement strategies that reflect and that are appropriate for the diverse experiences and backgrounds of their students and families.
What is a Culturally Responsive Educator?
Name calling, taunting, pushing, scratching, hitting, spreading false rumors, excluding children from groups are all types of what?
What is bullying?
Involve adjustments in teaching methods but have minimal to no impact in level of curricular mastery.
What is low-impact differentiation techniques?
What is the whole language approach?