Key Terms
Involves 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?
Is a developmental disability. It covers a wide range of symptoms, but it mainly affects a child’s social and communication skills. It can also impact behavior.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
One teacher instructs the whole class while the other teacher circulates to collect information on students’ performance or to offer support, redirection, and enrichment.
What is One Teaching/One Collecting Data/Helping?
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?
Includes changes in the way test questions and directions are presented to students.
What are Presentation Mode Testing Accommodations?
Is 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?
Includes anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and depression.
What is Emotional Disturbance?
Both teachers teach the same material at the same time to two equal groups of students.
What is Parallel Teaching?
you identify concepts that need to be learned,
Identify 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?
Involves making changes in the way students respond to test items or determine their answers.
What are Response Mode Testing Accommodations?
Is a written, individualized education program listing the special education and related services students with disabilities will receive to address their unique academic, social, behavioral, communication, functional, and physical strengths and challenges.
What is an IEP?
Trouble pronouncing words or making sounds with the voice. It also covers language problems that make it hard for kids to understand words or express themselves.
What is Speech or Language Impairment?
Both teachers teach different content or review that content or use different learning activities at the same time to two equal groups of students. As appropriate, they then may switch groups and repeat the lesson. There also may be a third station for independent student learning activities.
What is Station Teaching?
Students are given lessons in the same curricular areas as their peers but at varying levels of difficulty.
What is Multilevel Teaching?
Adjustments with respect to where, when, with whom, and for how long and often students take tests and include giving students extended time or allowing them to take tests in a more private location.
What are Timing, Scheduling, and Setting Testing Accommodations?
For children with special needs who are ages birth to 5 years of age, the team of professionals and the child’s family jointly specify how the disability impacts the child’s participation in appropriate activities and details the early intervention services necessary to meet the developmental needs of eligible children.
What is an IFSP?
Eyesight problems
What is Visual Impairment (including blindness)?
One teacher works with a smaller group or individual students while the other teacher works with a larger group.
What is Alternative Teaching?
Involves teaching a diverse group of students individualized skills from different curricular areas (Ruppar, 2013). Goals, content, and the difficulty level of tasks for certain students with learning.
What is Curriculum Overlapping?
Typically used with English language learners, are designed to minimize the extent to which students’ language proficiency affects their test performance.
What are Linguistically Based Testing Accommodations?
Does not require the development of an IEP, includes statements related to the nature and impact of the disability, the student’s strengths and challenges, and the reasonable accommodations and supports that will help the student succeed.
What is a 504?
A hearing loss not covered by the definition of deafness. This type of loss can change over time. Being hard of hearing is not the same thing as having trouble with auditory or language processing.
What is a Hearing Impairment?
Both teachers plan and teach the lesson together to the whole class and blend their content knowledge, perspective, and instructional, assessment, and management
What is Team Teaching?
Assessments that are provided during instruction.
Assessment that are provided after instruction.
What is Formative Assessment?
What is Summative Assessment?
The body's natural response to stress. It's a feeling of fear or apprehension about what's to come.
What is Anxiety?