Special Education Law
In 1990, US Congress enacted this Public Law designed to integrate individuals with disabilities into the social and economic mainstream of society.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Inclusion is rooted in this principle, which seeks to provide opportunities, social interactions, and experiences that parallel those of society to adults and children with disabilities.
What is normalization?
These social language skills guide ELL students in developing social relationships and conversations.
What are basic interpersonal language skills (BICS)?
This is when students publicly praise their classmates for engaging in prosocial behaviors.
What is positive peer reporting?
These summative standardized tests that influence important decisions about students' education programs are referred to as ________________.
What is high-stakes testing?
What is the IDEA?
These programs increase the physical, motor, cognitive, language, speech, literacy, socialization, self-help skills of many children birth through age 6.
What is early intervention?
This type of education seeks to help educators acknowledge and understand the increasing diversity in society and in the classroom and to see their students' diverse backgrounds as assets that can support teaching and learning.
What is multicultural education?
This is a collaborative data-based decision-making process for establishing and implementing a continuum of research-based schoolwide and individualized instructional and behavioral strategies for all students.
What is a Schoolwide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS)?
Variations in testing administration, environment, equipment, technology, and procedures that allow students to access tests and accurately demonstrate their knowledge without altering the integrity of the tests.
What are testing accommodations?
FAPE is an acronym that stands for this.
What is 'free and public education'?
These principles can help educators design classroom instruction so it is usable by individuals with a wide range of capabilities and diversities by using differentiation, preference, and accommodation.
What is Universal Design for Learning?
What is co-teaching?
A person-centered, multimethod problem-solving process that involves gathering information to plan appropriate behavioral interventions.
What is a functional behavioral assessment (FBA)?
At the end of the lesson, students use this to answer a question related to the days lesson and turn it in as they are leaving the classroom.
What is an exit-slip?
An individually tailored education for a student with disabilities.
What is an Individualized Education Plan (IEP)?
What is a Section 504 Individualized Accommodation Plan?
Both teachers teach different content and students rotate through teaching and learning activities.
What is station teaching?
These letters identify the events that precede and trigger the behavior.
What is ABC data?
The use of a contract developed by students and teacher that identify learning objectives and end products.
What is contract grading?
An individually based principle that calls for schools to educate students with disabilities as much as possible with their peers who do not have disabilities.
What is the least restrictive environment (LRE)?
This approach to teaching looks at students with disabilities in terms of what they CAN do as opposed to what they cannot do.
What is a competency-oriented approach?
A four-step model that serves as a framework for developing a program to prepare students for success in inclusive settings.
What is transenvironmental programming?
Use humor, acknowledge and praise students, conduct meeting and use dialoguing, be aware of nonverbal communication - are all ways to do this.
What is developing students' self-esteem?
In this type of grading, teachers compare student mastery to the curriculum standards.
What is criterion-referenced grading?