Foundations of Inclusion
Disabilities
Transitions
Differentiation Instruction
Evaluation
100
An important goal of inclusion is to provide all students with access to the general education curriculum.
What is an important goal of inclusion?
100
Dyslexia
Students with_____ experience reading difficulties such as failure to recall letters and sound of letters.
100
Positive features of transitions are accessibility; accommodation; resource availability; social support; and equality.
What are positive features of transitions?
100
We can differentiate content, process, product, affect, and learning environment.
What can we differentiate to accommodate diverse learners?
100
Formative assessment
_____ is to collect date to support learning and occurs on ongoing basis during instruction.
200
Mainstreaming; Inclusion
_______ is selected access to the general education curriculum while _____ is full access to the general education curriculum.
200
Bipolar disorder.
Students with _____ may experience having fluctuating moods that vary from depression to a mania.
200
Four steps of transenvironmental programming are ecological assessment; intervention and preparation; generalization to the new settings; and evaluation in the new environment.
What are four steps of transenvironmental programming?
200
Tiered assignment during and at the end of instructional units allow you to differentiate assessments to meet the strengths and challenges of individual students.
What are advantages of tiered assignment?
200
Variation of testing accommodation can be in testing administration, environment, equipment, technology, and procedures.
What are variation of testing accommodation?
300
1.All learners and equal access; 2.Individual strengths and challenges and diversity; 3.Reflective, universally designed, culturally responsive, 4.Evidence-based, and differentiated practices; community and collaboration
What are four principles of effective inclusion?
300
Priming involves familiarizing students with new activities, information, routines, strategies and materials prior to introducing them in class.
What is Priming?
300
Hidden curriculum is the unstated, culturally based social skills and rules that are essential to successful functioning in classroom and schools.
What is hidden curriculum?
300
Instructional accommodations include multilevel teaching and curriculum overlapping.
What are instructional accommodations?
300
Response mode of testing accommodation
Students answer few items and use dictation to record their responses are _____ mode of testing accommodation.
400
Least Restrictive environment (LRE) requires schools to educate students with disabilities as much as possible with their peers who do not have disabilities. In order to implement it, a continuum of educational placements ranging from highly integrated setting to highly segregated setting. For example, the least restrict to the most is from general education classroom placement with few or no supportive services to hospital/institution.
What is Least Restrictive Environment? And how to implement it in the classroom?
400
Students with Autism are characterized by engagement in repetitive activities and stereotyped movement.
What are characteristics of students with Autism?
400
We can help students make transition by: 1. collaborating with professionals and families; 2. offering student and family orientation 3. teaching cultural norms; 4. offering newcomer programs.
How can we help students make transition to new schools?
400
Strategies of material accommodations are to find materials that relate to their life and their interest; vary amount and format of materials; supplement materials and use alternative format.
How can we make materials accommodations for students?
400
For test format, we need to avoid causing confusion and distraction because of poor appearance. The test format should be with proper presentation, organization, spacing, and sequencing. Also, we need to allow students to write on the test itself rather than transferring answers to a separate page that can reduce confusion.
What can we do with test format?
500
Prereferral strategies are helpful in reducing the high rates of special education placements for their students from culturally and linguistically backgrounds. It also helps minimize the needs for placement in special education.
What are benefits of Prereferral strategies?
500
Students with ADHD: 1.Strengths: curiosity and creativity 2. Challenges: inattentiveness, disorganization and poor motivation.
What are strengths and challenges of students with ADHD?
500
Teachers can help students to make transition from school to adulthood by developing SOP and ITP which outlines instructional activities and community experiences that help them develop skulls to obtain employment, live independently, and be self-determined. Successful transitions can enhance students' self-determination and quality of life.
How can we help students to make transitions from school to adulthood and why do we need them?
500
Anticipatory set is a statement or an engaging activity that introduces the content, skills and strategies and motivates students to learn them by relating the goals of the lesson to their prior knowledge, interests, strengths, and future life events.
What is anticipatory set?
500
Criterion-referenced grading systems are to allow teachers to report on students' mastery in the curriculum; grading is based on student mastery on a range of assessments. Self-referenced grading systems are used to communicate students' progress over a period of time. Students' grades are compared with their past performance, effort, ability levels and special needs.
What are criterion-referenced grading systems and self-referenced grading systems?