Week 1
The Behavior Support Plan is identical to a functional behavioral analysis (FBA) and Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP).
What is true
A process that recognizes the roles that students and their families play in identifying meaningful goals and appropriate strategies and services is:
Person-centered planning
Self-determination refers to:
Identifying what one wants and learning how to achieve it
While other students were classifying and comparing plants, Teresa worked on sorting plants by size. This is an example of:
Multilevel teaching
A student reads slowly and makes numerous oral reading errors. This student appears to have difficulty with:
Reading fluency
Which of the following sequences is consistent with the continuum of educational services from most to least restrictive educational placements for students?
What is: Full-time special class, part-time special class, general education class with assistance
When teaching material that is difficult but not sequential, or when several different topics are important, the best cooperative teaching arrangement is:
Station Teaching
Mr. Jones places a chart on the chalkboard listing the steps in a learning strategy, which he
periodically reviews with his students. Mr. Jones is probably seeking to:
Promote generalization
Mr. Joyce teaches her students to create original sentences that summarize the main points of the text. Mr. Joyce’s students are using
Paragraph restatements
When his students have difficulty reading words, Mr. Ramsey prompts them by providing them with the initial sound or syllable. Mr. Ramsey is using:
Phonemic cues
An occupational therapist comes into Ms. Smith’s general education classroom to work with John. This is referred to as a:
What is Push-in program
When it is necessary to lower the student–teacher ratio in order to teach new material or to
review material previously taught, the best cooperative teaching arrangement is
Parallel teaching
Ms. Franz reinforces her students based on their own performance or behavior. Sometimes she gives them tokens when they show appropriate behavior. Ms. Franz and her students are using a/an:
Independent group system
Which of the following is a principle of universal design?
Equitable use
Ms. Gooden’s students are creating semantic webs for their writing projects. On which subprocess in the writing process are Ms. Gooden’s students working?
Planning
This case has ensured children a free and appropriate public education:
Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Alignment of the curriculum, learning goals, teaching materials, strategies used in the general education classroom, and supportive services programs refers to:
Congruence
A teacher increases a student’s work completion rate by making access to the computer contingent upon work completion. The teacher is using:
The Premack principle
Ms. Frank had students work in collaborative groups to gather and present information on the culture and customs of groups in the United States by visiting teacher-designated Internet sites. Ms. Frank is using
Webquests
Mr. Eisman’s biology class is learning about processes that involve cause and effect. An appropriate graphic organizer Mr. Eisman can use to help his students is a
Directional graphic organizer
The IDEA has been amended four times since its passage in 1975. Which of the following
represents its most recent amendment?
PL 108-446 Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act
Viktor mixes words, phrases, expressions, and sentences from Russian while speaking English. This is an example of:
code switching
On the Behavior Support Plan template, you are to operationally define the target behavior. Operationally define means..
to describe the behavior in terms that would allow someone to count "see" and "count" or "time" the behavior.
Four of Mr. Mahadeo’s students are having difficulty with text comprehension. To help them improve this skill, he asks them to read a selection silently, summarize it, discuss and clarify problem areas and unclear vocabulary, and gives the students the chance to predict future content. After Mr. Mahadeo models these strategies, he asks the students to take his role while he provides them help through prompting. What method is Mr. Mahadeo using to help his students improve their text comprehension skill?
Reciprocal teaching
After a class session on photosynthesis, Mr. Francis and his class develop a visual depiction of the important points and the relationship between these points. This is an example of a /an:
Semantic web