Strengths and Challenges of Students with Disabilities
Transitioning
Classroom Environment
Differentiating Instruction
100
PIRATES
What is an acronym to foster students' general test taking skills?
100
includes disability categories such as learning disabilities, ADHD, and speech/language disorders.
What is high-incidence disabilities?
100
Analyze the critical features of the learning environment and the key skills that affect student academic, behavioral, and social performance.
What is ecological assessment?
100
A system implemented in tiers that provide a continuum of academic, behavioral, and social interventions and supports based on students' responses to them.
What is schoolwide positive behavioral intervention and supports (SWPBIS)?
100
In this method you identify concepts that need to be learned and allow students to select how they can show mastery, and how they want to demonstrate their learning.
What is tiered assignments?
200
records student's dictated responses to test questions.
What is a scribe?
200
students who have a hard time processing body language, gestures, and the context of linguistic interactions.
What is nonverbal learning disabilities?
200
The special educator uses the curriculum, instructional materials, and instructional format of teachers in inclusive classrooms.
What is Preteaching?
200
A person-centered, multi-method problem solving process.
What is a functional behavior assessment (FBA)?
200
Serve as solutions to barriers faced by some students in learning new content.
What is universally designed curriculum?
300
summative common assessments, which usually involve students taking standardized tests to assess their mastery of benchmarks in the curriculum.
What is high stakes testing?
300
a condition that includes engaging in a range of behaviors impacting daily activities.
What is ADHD?
300
The transfer of training so students use the skills you have taught them independently in their inclusive classroom.
What is generalization?
300
As way to document and record behavior, the observer counts the number of behaviors that occur during the observation period.
What is event recording?
300
Students are given lessons in the same curricular areas as their peers but at varying levels of difficulty.
What is multilevel teaching?
400
a condition characterized by extreme stress, nervousness, and apprehension that significantly impairs their ability to perform on tests.
What is test anxiety?
400
students have fluctuating moods that vary fro depression to mania.
What is bipolar disorder?
400
A program to help make students aware of the culture of the school.
What is a transitional program?
400
As a way to document behavior, the observer records how long the behavior lasts.
What is duration recording?
400
Teachers may use this strategy before assigning a reading selection. The teacher may use prereading activities for new vocabulary, academic language, and text structures.
What is previewing?
500
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?
500
students with physical, sensory, and multiple and significant cognitive disabilities.
What is low-incidence disabilities?
500
A program to prepare students for a successful transition to adult living.
What is a functional curriculum?
500
As a way to document behavior, the observer writes a narrative of the events that took place during the observation.
What is anecdotal record?
500
This is a popular strategy for guiding text comprehension. It can foster close reading and increase comprehension.