Assessment
A new high school student is being assessed. He reads a 500 word text. He misreads 35 words. At what is his reading level
Instructional Level
According to the assistive technology act, assistive devices are:
Any device that could help a disabled student in school or life functions.
Augmentative & Alternative communication AAC devices forearms crutches & a head pointer are assistive devices that might be used by a student with:
Cerebral palsy
How could the teacher use the student’s list of the things they know how to do well in her planning.
All of the above…The writing prompt is multipurpose
A 7th grader with mild intellectual disabilities is having trouble with algebra. His father tries helping with more drills but less the girl seems to understand. The teacher suggests…
He substitutes fun math activities for drills
In the first week of school, a resource teacher asks her students to make a list of things they know how to do well. How is this activity most useful to the teacher?
It is an informal assessment of their writing & gives the teacher an idea of their interest, abilities, & skills.
Response to Intervention (RTI) is
A strategy for diagnosing learning disabilities in which student receives research interventions to correct an. Academic delay.
4yr old has difficulty sorting plastic cubes, circles, & triangles by color & shapes. Doesn’t recognize patterns or groups or relationships such as tall/short
The child most likely
Has dyscalculia
A special ed teacher is creating a developmental history for high school. She wants to know when teens reach certain behavioral academic & developmental milestones. She should consult:
The student’s parents or guardians because they known the students from the beginning.
6 graders Alfie & honesty ride the same bus. Honesty constantly teases alfie. Alfie is embarrassed because he believes she is berating him. The best form of conflict resolution would be for the teacher…
Suggest to alfie he have a calm assertive conversation with her & tell her he doesn’t like it & insist she stops.
A resource teacher notices one of her students has made the same reading error numerous times. She corrects this misunderstanding by showing the student word families…this strategy is called
Corrective feedback
The individual with disabilities education Act (IDEA) requires that members of an IEP team include
Classroom teacher, sped teacher, guardian, representative of the local education agency, someone to interpret implication, the student*, & others invited by parents or school.
When transitioning from 1 subject to another & when she becomes anxious she taps on her front tooth 5 times & blinks 11 times before leaving her desk. The child most likely has
Obsessive compulsive disorder
Which classroom environment is mostly likely to support a student with ADHD?
students with ADHD are extremely sensitive to distraction. A learning environment in which visual & audio distractions have been eliminated is best.
A resource room teacher has a small group of 2nd & 3rd graders who are struggling with reading comprehension. A useful strategy would be to…
Ask students to create a play about the story
Reading Comprehension should be evaluated
With a combination of informal & formal assessments
Lead teaching, learner center / learning stations, resource service, team teaching are all use in
Collaborative Teaching
By law, a child with disability is defined as one with:
Intellectual disability hearing speech language visual orthopedic or other health impairment, emotional disturbance, autism, brain injury and so forth
How could a teacher effectively use a picture book of folk tale from an English Language Leaners’s country of origin?
Ask the student to tell one folk tale in her native language
A teacher asks an ELL to do a picture walk through a book & describe what he thinks the story is about. This helps the students’s awareness of the story’s
Events
Rate accuracy & prosody are elements of:
Reading Fluency
IDEA requires that students identified with learning disabilities or other special needs be educated in__learning environment
The least restrictive
A kindergarten teacher has a new student who does not make eye contact and seems not to be listening. She rocks back and forth ,avoid physical contact & sometimes howls in terror & fury
Autism
What kind of load does the previous example employ?
Cultural load
Strategies to increase reading fluency for ELL include
Tape-assisted reading & reading aloud while students follows along in their book.