Inclusion and Students Needs
A change that removes a barrier to learning by giving a student extra time, but does not change the assignment itself.
What is Accommodation?
The art and science of teaching, which connects theory and practice and involves caring for learners.
What is Pedagogy?
The stories and cultural knowledge that students have learned at home and in the community.
What are Funds of Knowledge?
Messages in communication that avoid placing blame and allow speakers to express their feelings directly and specifically.
What are I-messages?
This theorist proposed the concept of Multiple Intelligences, including linguistic-verbal and musical.
Who is Howard Gardner?
The nation's special education law that requires schools to find and evaluate students with disabilities at no cost to families.
What is IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act)?
A teaching approach that tailors instruction to students' different needs and allows them to show what they know in different ways.
What is Differentiated Instruction?
Teaching that centers students' cultural backgrounds and experiences in the classroom to make the curriculum relevant and meaningful to them.
What is Culturally Relevant Pedagogy?
The component of classroom management focused on planning the physical environment and deciding on the procedures for the school day.
What is Content Management?
The term for externally-driven rewards like a "Teacher of the Year" award or a pay raise.
What are Extrinsic Rewards?
The term for differences among groups of students in their performance on standardized tests, often related to socioeconomic status or race.
What is the Achievement Gap?
The attitudes, beliefs, and values that a teacher holds about their students, colleagues, and the subjects they teach.
What are Dispositions?
The stereotype in which students are aware of common stereotypes about their group memberships, which may affect their academic performance.
What is Stereotype Threat?
William Glasser's model where teachers help students satisfy their five psychological needs to promote appropriate behavior.
What is Choice Theory?
This is the official name for the standards for teaching practice, such as "setting standards for entry" and "intellectual work."
What is Being a Professional?
The principle of designing curriculum to provide all individuals with equal opportunities to learn, regardless of ability or background, often using tools like captions.
What is Universal Design for Learning (UDL)?
Teachers can differentiate instruction through Content, Process, Product, and this fourth component.
What is the Learning Environment?
Teaching that goes further than being responsive by actively respecting, nurturing, and integrating students’ evolving identities and language.
What is Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy?
This involves maintaining conduct through the establishment of rules and guidelines of behavior.
What is Conduct Management?
NBPTS and CAEP are examples of this type of organization related to teaching.
What are Professional Organizations?
The process where all students, regardless of challenges, are placed in age-appropriate general education classes to receive high-quality instruction.
What is Inclusion?
The phenomenon of a neural network's ability to change through growth and reorganization, which allows for learning and behavior change.
What is Plasticity of the brain?
Blaming oppressed people for their own economic disparities and/or considering them intellectually and culturally inferior.
What is Deficit Ideology?
The management component focused on relationships, highly developed communication skills, and how content and conduct management influence interactions.
What is Covenant Management
This theorist, known for their work on fixed vs. growth mindsets, is listed as a major influence on the education field.
Who is Carol Dweck?