Foundations and Fundamentals of Inclusion
Delivering and monitoring a specially designed and coordinated set of comprehensive, evidence-based, and universally designed instructional and assessment practices and related services to students with learning, behavioral, emotional, physical, health, or sensory disabilities.
What is Special Education?
The term specifically deemed for teachers who work together, collaboratively or cooperatively
What is co-teaching?
Students are given lessons in the same curricular areas as their peers but at varying levels of difficulty. Some students may work on a reduced or increased number of items or more or less complex learning objectives
What is multilevel teaching?
All students, including those with disabilities, are expected to participate in summative common assessments, which usually involve students taking standardized tests to assess their mastery of benchmarks in the curriculum
What is high-stakes testing?
A plan focusing on how the learning environment will change to address a student’s behavior, characteristics, strengths, and challenges that includes specific measurable goals for appropriate behaviors and the individuals, interventions, supports, and services responsible for helping the student achieve these goals.
What is a Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP)?
A philosophy that brings diverse students, families, educators, and community members together to create schools and other social institutions based on acceptance, belonging, and community
What is inclusion?
A strategy teachers use to teach the same material to two separate, equal groups at the same time
What is parallel teaching?
A process for planning units of instruction and individual lessons by which you first determine the assessments you will use to evaluate your students’ learning.
What is backward design?
A progress-monitoring strategy that provides individualized, brief direct, and repeated measures of students’ proficiency and progress across the curriculum
What is curriculum-based assessment?
The transfer of training and use of skills across a variety of settings and situations.
What is generalization?
Schools educate students with disabilities as much as possible with their peers who do not have disabilities
What is Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)?
A household that is headed by family members other than the child's parents
What is an extended family?
Teaching a diverse group of students individualized skills from different curricular areas
What is curriculum overlapping?
True or False, Sentence Completion, Essay Questions, Multiple Choice, Matching
What are some accessible types of teacher-made test questions?
Refers to one taking actions as a result of internally based consequences, such as a sense of mastery and accomplishment.
What is Intrinsic Motivation?
Educators need to be prepared to identify educational barriers that hinder student access and performance, and then plan ways to minimize those barriers by building differentiation, preference, and accommodation into their practices to foster student access and success
What is Universal Design for Learning (UDL)?
A strategy teachers use to work together to solve problems and mutually agree on solutions to prevent learning and behavioral difficulties from all students
What is collaborative consultation?
Content, process, product, affect, learning environment
What should teachers differentiate to accommodate diverse learners?
Excessive perspiration, sweaty palms, nausea, rapid heart beat, difficulty sleeping and/or eating
What are some physical symptoms of testing anxiety?
An instructional approach to teaching reading that is based on using students’ natural language and experiences to foster their literacy, viewing learning as proceeding from the whole to the part, and integrating reading, writing, listening, speaking, and thinking into each lesson and activity.
What is the Whole Language Approach?
This act mandates that a free and appropriate education be provided to all students with disabilities, regardless of the nature and severity of their disability.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
Recognize/support different types of families, gain their trust, be an advocate, ensure confidentiality, maintain a relationship (meet regularly)
What strategies can be implemented to collaborate with families?
Identifying concepts that need to be learned, delineate multiple ways in which students can show mastery that differ in complexity and learning preference, and allow students to select how they want to demonstrate their learning.
What are tiered assignments?
Visually present data, establish a criteria for judging mastery, color code data, analyze data, reflect on data, implement instructional practices and evaluate their impact
What is the collaborative process for analyzing common assessment data?
An instructional sequence that involves teachers varying and gradually fading out the length of time in which they present a task and prompt students so students learn to respond quickly and independently
What is a Time Delay?