Part 1: Chapters 1-4
The term to describe the requirement that schools educate students with disabilities as much as possible with their peers who do not have disabilities
least restrictive environment
The cooperative teaching arrangement in which both teachers plan and teach the lesson together to the whole class and blend their content knowledge, perspective, and instructional, assessment, and management practice
team teaching
A strategy used to make sure that they get to work with all of their classmates and that students are not grouped solely on the basis of their learning ability or success.
flexible grouping
Assessments that are used to gather data to monitor your students’ learning, guide your feedback to students, and inform your instruction and ways to improve it
Formative assessments
HIB
harassment, intimidation, and bullying
The first step of the RTI Model
universal screening
The term that describes an individual’s ability to identify and take actions to achieve one’s goals in life
self-determination
The method utilized by many schools as a model to incorporate English language instruction into content instruction
SIOP (Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol)
Summative common assessments used to make important decisions about students’ educational programs
high-stakes testing
RTI
response to intervention
The name for the group of disabilities including students with physical, sensory, and more significant cognitive disabilities.
low-incidence disabilties
The essential component in order to help prepare all of students to develop self-determination, accept others, make friends, and function independently and for the many transitions they face
collaboration (with other professionals, family members, students, and peers)
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
anticipatory set
The name for variations in testing administration, environment, equipment, technology, and procedures that allow students to access tests and accurately demonstrate their competence, knowledge, and abilities without altering the integrity of the tests
testing accommodations
UDL
universal design for learning
The concept which involves understanding one’s feelings and the feelings of others as well as the ability to use one’s social and collaborative skills to establish and maintain relationships with others
emotional intelligence
The term for the logical relationship among the curriculum, learning goals, teaching materials, strategies used in the inclusive classroom classroom, and supportive services programs
congruence
The approach uses students’ natural language and experiences in and out of school to immerse them in a supportive, stimulating, natural learning environment that promotes their literacy.
whole language approach
A method used to examine students’ responses to identify areas of difficulty by that focuses on misconceptions related to inappropriate use of rules and concepts, incomplete understanding, misconceptions, and difficulties with reasoning and generalization of learning
error analysis
PARCC
Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career
The phenomenon commonly observed in individuals learning a second language, relates to using words, phrases, expressions, and sentences from one language while speaking another language
code switching
A collaborative data-based decision-making process for establishing and implementing a continuum of research-based schoolwide and individualized instructional and behavioral strategies and services that are available and used to support the learning, socialization, independence, and positive behavior of all students
schoolwide positive behavioral intervention and supports (SWPBIS)
The term for the interest in and concern for the well-being of others and the environment
social responsibility
The term used when the testing accommodations selected for students with disabilities should enhance their performance and, if used by their classmates, would have a minimal impact on their classmates’ test performance
differential boost
COPS
capitalization, overall appearance, proper punctuation, spelling