Learners with High-Incidence Disabilities
What are high-incidence disabilities?
Speech or language impairments, learning/intellectual disability, emotional disturbance
What is Positive Behavior Interventions and Support (PBIS)?
Is an evidence-based three-tiered framework to improve and integrate all of the data, systems, and practices affecting student outcomes every day.
Triangle (bottom>top) green, yellow, red.
What is fixed mindset?
I stick to what I know.
What is better classroom participation?
More praise/positive behavior-specific feedback.
What is ADHD?
Not mentioned in IDEA legislation as separate disability category. Often begins in childhood and can persist into adulthood. Symptoms include limited attention and hyperactivity.
What is Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS)?
It's a framework that helps educators provide academic and behavioral strategies for students with various needs.
What is learned helplessness?
Because I don't get the right answer, I won't try anymore because there is no point.
What is student praise?
Has to be specific, occur immediately after behavior, and should be within close proximity of the student.
What is Response-to-Intervention (RTI)?
Process used to determine if student responds to interventions.
What are suspected factors of emotional or behavioral disorders?
Biological and environmental.
What is growth mindset?
If I read more about this, I'll be able to explain it.
What are the critical factors in guidelines for implementing teacher praise?
Contingency, immediacy, proximity, consistency, specificity.
What are the components of language?
Phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics.
What is a corrective statement?
What should you be doing right now, Alex?
What is gathering baseline data?
Collect students beliefs on intelligence.
Implement surveys & quizzes on mindset.
Provide accommodations.
What are ways to increase rates of teacher praise?
Performance feedback, video recording, self-monitoring.
What is emotional disturbance?
Idea defines it as the following:
(A) An inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory, or health factors.
(B) An inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with peers and teachers.
(C) Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal circumstances.
(D) A general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression.
(E) A tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with personal or school problems.”
What is a positive statement?
Great job with that explanation, Jaime
What is malleability of intelligence?
Strength-based thinking rather than deficit-based thinking.
What are high leverage practices in special education?
HLP7, HLP8, HLP9, HLP10