Special Education Law
Public Law PL 94-142 opened the way for public education for students with disabilities in this year.
1975
This group provides leadership, sets meetings, and ensures due process is followed.
Administrators
This process assess classroom routines and the environment the student will be transitioning into.
Ecological Assessment
Tailor curricular goals and teaching strategies
Individualize and personalize the curriculum
Use curricular accommodations
Are all examples of ways to do this.
Differentiate student work
Students may take as test or be quizzed during the process of learning This is an example this type of assessment
Formative
This law was passed in 1990, redefined special education in American public schools.
IDEA
This group offers reports on student progress and assess student abilities in the classroom.
General Education teachers
This model takes what is used in the general education classroom and addresses student needs in these areas in a separate room so that they can reinforce the skills needed for a student to be able to complete those tasks once back in the general education room.
Transenvrionmental Training
Changing the worksheets, the amount of time on task, or the setting the lesson, but still teaching the same concept is delivered in are types of this type of differentiation.
Curricular Differentiation
Students may take a test or be assessed at the end of the unit. This is an example of this type of assessment.
Summative
IDEA stands for this
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
This group provides interventions and provides information on responses to various instructional interventions
Special Education teachers
In order to facilitate a smooth transition into a general education classroom, a student should be taught appropriate class language through this process.
Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS)
Following this type of differentiation means that before planning instructional activities, you first determine the assessments that will be used to evaluate students’ learning
Backward Design
This type of formal assessment suffers from several severe deficiencies including determining valid, appropriate and individualized testing accommodations for diverse learners, variations in testing administration, environment, equipment, technology and procedures that allow students to access tests.
Standardized Testing
“Additional” services special education students might receive like OT, speech, etc are also known as this.
Related Services
This group assists students and teachers in completing work, recording behaviors, and modeling appropriate behaviors
Paraprofessionals
Teach students techniques for understanding the important vocabulary concepts that guide instruction in inclusive settings
Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP)
Students who need accommodations based on their eyesight, hearing ability, or sensitivity to these senses are example of students with this type of disability.
Sensory Disabilities
Instead of formalized and standardized testing, teachers can utilize ongoing assessments used to examine students’ learning progress and effectiveness of teaching practices and instructional programs. This is known as this type of assessment.
Progress Monitoring
IDEA sets up students to be educated in the LRE for them. LRE stands for this.
Least Restrictive Environment.
This group provides a bridge between homelife and school life. These professionals might speak with a student who is in crisis.
Counselors
This type of transition helps students who need training in how to overcome: negative attitudes, environmental constraints (e.g., availability of transportation, shopping, or leisure activities) and socioeconomic barriers
Transition to adulthood.
This is the extent to which a learning accommodation is easy to use, effective, appropriate, fair, and reasonable.
Acceptability
Individualized, direct and repeated measures of students’ proficiency and progress
Can be assessed along these guidelines
1. Identify content area to be assessed
2. Define school-related tasks that will constitute the assessment
3. Determine whether performance or progress measurement will be used
4. Prepare and organize necessary materials
These are all examples of this type of assessment.
Curriculum Based Measurements