Teaching
Theories
Practice
Q's
Acronyms
Special Education,
Accomodations/Modifications
Laws
Teaching Approaches and their
People
100

The method where students hear rhythms/pitches before they are taught to read the notations

What is sound before sight?

100

The 2 foundatiobal skills taught at the elementary level

What is match pitch? What is steady beat?

100

An IEP

What is Individualized Education Plan

100

The difference between modification and accomodation

What is a modification: changes what? What is an accommodation: changes how?

100

The theorist associated with operant conditioning and reinforcement

Skinner

200

The -ism associated with students exploring instruments and learning how to make sounds with them

What is constructivism?

200

The type of motivation a student has when they don't have an external prize or factor pushing them

What is intrinsic motivation?

200

VARK

What is visual, auditory, reading, and kinesthetic?

200

The focus of asset-based teaching

What is using/focusing on a student's strengths, interests, and what they can do rather than hat they cannot?

200

The -ism/approach associated with Jonassen 

What is Constructivism?

300

The 3 modes of representation, their definitions, and their creator

What is Enactive: movement, Iconic: visual, Symbolic: notation? What is Bruner?

300

The type of feedback we give students needs to be

What is specific?

300

ARD

What is admission, review, and dismissal?

300

The law that guarantees FAPE

What is the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975?

300

The theorist associated with spiral curriculum and discovery learning

What is Bruner?

400

The 4 stages of development, their age ranges, and the theorist associated with them

What is sensorimotor (0-2), preoperational (2-7), concrete operations (7-11), formal operations (11-adult)? What is Piaget?

400

The theorist who invented multiple intelligences

What is Gardner?

400

FAPE

What is Free and Appropriate Public Education?

400

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

What is extends disability discrimination protections to public entities and broader areas of public life?

400

The theorist associated with sound before sight

What is Gordon?

500

The theory that students acquire info most effectively when lessons are organized and prepared, through “advanced organizers” and the theorist associated with it 

What is Meaningful Reception? What is Ausubel?

500

The law that prevents disability discrimination in public programs that recieve federal assistance

What is Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973?

500

TELPAS and what it measures

What is Texas English Language Proficiency and Standards? What is English profciency/fluency for students whose primary language is not English.

500

The law that renamed the earlier special education law and expanded its scope, including autism and traumatic brain injury categories

What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1990?

500

The appraoch/theory Dunn and Dunn are associated with

What is environment impacts how students learn? What is Learning style model?