Special Education and Inclusion
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?
The unstated, culturally based social skills and rules that are essential to successful functioning in classrooms, schools, and social situations
What is the hidden curriculum?
to differentiate your assessments to meet the strengths and challenges of individual students
What does it mean to create tiered assignments?
A diagnosis that presents as difficulty identifying and maintaining attention to relevant classroom directions, information, and stimuli, affecting their school performance
What is ADHD?
The partial or fulltime programs that educated students with disabilities with their general education peers.
What is mainstreaming?
A method used to prepare students for the academic, behavioral, and social expectations of the inclusive setting.
What is preteaching?
When students are given lessons in the same curricular areas as their peers but at varying levels of difficulty.
What is multilevel teaching?
Physical, sensory, and more significant cognitive disabilities
What are low incidence disabilties?
Requires schools to educate students with disabilities as much as possible with their peers who do not have disabilities.
What is the least restrictive environment?
1. ecological assessment
2. intervention and preparation
3. generalization to the new setting
4. evaluation in the new environment.
What is the four step transenvironmental programming model?
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?
learning disabilities, mild emotional/behavioral disorders, mild intellectual disabilities, attention deficit disorders, and speech/language disorders.
What are high incidence disabilties?
Normalization, early intervention and early childhood programs and technological advances
What Factors Contributed to the Movement to Educate Students in Inclusive Classrooms?
Assignment notebooks, assignment templates, assignment logs, sticky notes, highlighters
What are some organizational strategies?
• Content (what they teach)
• Process (how they teach)
• Product (how students demonstrate content mastery)
• Affect (how students connect their thinking and feelings)
• Learning environment (how the classroom is designed and what instructional groupings they use)
What might educators differentiate to accommodate the diverse learners in their classrooms?
Rather than seeing students in terms of what they cannot do, focus on what students can do, using these strengths to deliver a differentiated educational program that supports their inclusion, learning, socialization, participation, and growth and that maximizes their abilities
What is a competency-oriented approach?
1. General education classroom placement with few or no supportive services.
2. General education classroom placement with collaborative teacher assistance.
3. General education classroom placement with itinerant specialist assistance.
4. General education classroom placement with itinerant specialist assistance.
5. Special education classroom placement with part-time in the general education classroom.
6. Full-time special education classroom.
7. Special day school
8. Residential school
9. Homebound instruction
What is the continuum of educational services?
By understanding their unique abilities and challenges, using transenvironmental programming, identifying and teaching essential classroom procedures and behaviorsm, learning strategies that enhance their organizational skills, and helping students apply their learning in different classroom environments.
What are some way to help students make the transition to an inclusive classroom?
The alteration of the content of the curriculum as well as the ways students are taught and require adjustments in the structure and content of the educational program that affect the level of curricular mastery expected of students.
What is modification?
5% of the total school population
What percentage of students have a learning disability?