Collaboration and Partnerships
Beyond just "instruction," you should conceptualize your role as this—someone who ensures the student’s rights are protected and their voice is heard.
What is an advocate?
This tier provides targeted, small-group intervention for roughly 15% of the student population.
What is Tier 2?
There are this many total categories generally classified as high incidence disabilities.
What is six?
UDL is distinct from "differentiation" because it is designed for all students from the very beginning, rather than being an afterthought for a few. This is known as this type of design. (HINT: It's in the name)
What is Universal design?
This assessment is conducted specifically to determine the purpose or reason behind a student's disruptive behavior.
What is a Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA)?
In a collaborative model, this person is considered the "expert" on the student's history, interests, and life outside of school.
Who is the parent (or guardian)?
This tier provides the most intensive, individualized support for about 5% of students.
What is Tier 3?
This category includes students with ADHD and focuses on physical or mental conditions that limit alertness or vitality.
What is Other Health Impairment (OHI)?
Providing a student with a digital textbook, an audio version, and a physical handout is an example of this UDL principle.
What is Representation or (the "What" of learning)?
This teaching approach asks us to consider students holistically, acknowledging that their entire lives and stressors follow them into class.
What is Trauma-Informed Teaching?
When a special educator provides "Indirect Services," their primary "client" is actually this person, not the student.
Who is the General Education Teacher?
This percentage of students should have their needs met through high-quality, universal instruction in Tier 1.
What is 80%?
This category is characterized by challenges with social communication and the presence of repetitive behavior patterns.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)?
Giving a student the choice to demonstrate their knowledge through a video, an essay, or a live presentation falls under this principle.
What is Action & Expression (the "How" of learning)?
In special education, we conceptualize all behavior as being a form of this.
What is Communication?
Limited English proficiency, inflexible work schedules, and previous negative school experiences are all examples of these.
What are Barriers to Parent Involvement?
This framework is the academic-focused hierarchy used to match instruction to student needs.
What is RTI (Response to Intervention)?
This category describes students who may display internalizing (anxiety/withdrawal) or externalizing (aggression) characteristics.
What is Emotional Behavioral Disorder (EBD)?
This principle is focused on sustaining student effort, persistence, and self-regulation to keep them motivated.
What is Engagement (the "Why" of learning)?
This is the primary goal of a Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA): to determine this for a student’s behavior. HINT: (It's in the name).
What is the function (or the "Why")?
These are the two primary methods of professional partnership between general and special educators.
What are Direct and Indirect collaboration?
This framework is the behavior-focused hierarchy that offers supportive consequences to promote positive student actions.
What is PBIS?
This is the most prevalent high-incidence category, impacting areas like reading, math, or written expression.
What is Specific Learning Disability (SLD)?
While traditional instruction often views the student as the "problem" to be fixed, UDL views this as the primary barrier to student success. There are TWO correct answers to this question, either one will earn you points.
What is the Curriculum OR the Environment?
To conduct an FBA, teachers collect data on these three things: what happened before the behavior, the behavior itself, and what happened immediately after.
What are Antecedents, Behaviors, and Consequences?