Type of Disability
Students From
Diverse Backgrounds
Co-teaching
Behavior Support Plan
Differentiation
100
Student with difficulty in processing nonverbal, visual-spatial information and communications such as body language, gestures, and the context of linguistic interactions.
What is a student with nonverbal learning disability?
100
Students that have encountered circumstances which caused them to have limited, erratic, or nonexistent access to schooling.
What is Student with Interrupted Education (SIFE)?
100
Co-teaching arrangement where both teachers plan and teach the lesson together blending their expertise and knowledge
What is team teaching?
100
Events, stimuli, objects, actions, and activities that precede and trigger the behavior
What is antecedent?
100
Differentiation technique in which a teacher provides students with access to curriculum (e.g., Braille, sign language, assistive technology), but does not change the mastery expected of students
What are access differentiation techniques?
200
Student with a communication disorder such as stuttering, impaired articulation, a language impairment, or a voice impairment, that aversely affects educational performance
What is a student with speech & language disability?
200
Program of education that employs both the native and the new language and culture of students to teach them.
What is bilingual education?
200
Co-teaching arrangement in which one teacher works with a smaller group while the other teacher works with a larger group; used to preteach or reteach
What is alternative teaching?
200
Physical, social, or psychological event that makes the behavior more likely to occur.
What is setting event?
200
When teacher differentiates how students demonstrate mastery
What is product differentiation?
300
An acquired injury to the brain caused by an external physical force, resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment that adversely affects educational performance
What is a student with a traumatic brain injury?
300
Social language skills that guide students in developing social relationships and in engaging in casual face-to-face conversations
What is Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS)?
300
Co-teaching arrangement in which both teachers teach the same material at the same time to two equal and heterogeneous groups of students
What is parallel teaching?
300
Observational Recording in which teacher writes down a description of everything (class activities, interactions, etc.) that was seen during the observation period.
What is anecdotal record?
300
When teacher differentiates how the classroom is designed
What is learning environment differentiation?
400
Student who has significant limitations in both intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior as expressed in conceptual, social, and practical adaptive skills
What is a student with intellectual disabilities?
400
Language skills that relate to literacy, cognitive development, & academic development in the classroom
What is Cognitive/Academic Language Proficiency (CALP)?
400
Co-teaching arrangement in which one teacher takes primary responsibility for instruction while the other collects data or helps individual students
What is one teaching/one collecting data (helping) arrangement?
400
Observational recording which notes the number of behaviors that occurred during an observation period
What is event recording?
400
Differentiation technique in which one alters the content of the curriculum, the ways students are taught, or expectations for mastery
What are high-impact differentiation techniques?
500
A student who has varied academic performance & IQ, specialized skills, exhibit good rote and long term memory, be detail oriented, narrow range of interests and fascinations, and increased sensitivity to noise
What is a student with Asperger Syndrome?
500
Federal law guaranteeing homeless children the right to a free, appropriate public education in a mainstream school environment.
What is McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act?
500
Co-teaching arrangement in which teachers teach or review different content at the same time and students rotate different groups
What is station teaching?
500
Differentiation in which one may vary the amount of material students are expected to complete, use materials that present similar content at lower readability levels, or vary the format of the materials (e.g., digital vs. paper and pencil).
What are instructional materials accommodations?