Acronyms
Special Education
Preschool Pop Culture
CIA
Parker Facts
100
Provided to children birth to 3 with delays, medical diagnosis, and even adoption.
What is EI or Early Intervention
100
A legal document describing how the student learns, goals, services to meet goals and placement for services.
What is an IEP or Individual Education Program
100
At the end of each broadcast, the hostess would look through a "magic mirror" and recite the rhyme, "Romper, bomper, stomper boo. Tell me, tell me, tell me, do. Magic Mirror, tell me today, have all my friends had fun at play?"
What is Romper Room
100
How we, the adults at school, work together is as important as our individual competence: Lasting change begins with the adult community.
What is one of the seven principles and practices of the Responsive Classroom Curriculum
100
Total number of preschool sessions offered at Parker and Wesleyan.
What is 19
200
Most important email of the morning at Parker Road providing information essential for staff in order to have a smooth day.
What is the MM or Morning Message from Lisa!
200
From the date of signed consent for an evaluation the evaluation must be completed within X school days.
What is 30 school days
200
This warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrate leads a cast of characters teaching children numbers, colors and the alphabet.
Who is Big Bird
200
This author's art is distinctive and instantly recognizable. His art work is created in collage technique, using hand-painted papers, which he cuts and layers to form bright and colorful images.
Who is Eric Carle
200
Ratio required by special education regulations to meet criteria for an integrated classroom.
What is 48% students with and IEP requiring placement and 52% of students without an IEP requiring placement.
300
Weekly meeting of teachers for the purpose of collaboration about instructional practices often through the use of looking at student work and other data.
What is GLM or Grade Level Meeting
300
From the date of signed consent for an evaluation an Eligibility Determination Team Meeting must be held within X school days and if the child is eligible an IEP must be proposed.
What is 45 school days
300
To play, one person is chosen to be the traffic cop. All the players stand on the starting line and the traffic cop has his back to the rest of the players. When he says "green light," players try to run to the finish line. When the traffic cop says "red light," he turns around and players have to stop in their tracks.
What is Red Light, Green Light
300
A curriculum developed by Michelle Garcia Winner. Its main focus is on teaching students to think about how others perceive them.
What is Social Thinking
300
Number of Initial Evaluations completed during the 2014-2015 school year.
What is 80
400
The three big ideas or guiding principles of this practice are Ensuring That Students Learn, A Culture of Collaboration, and A Focus on Results.
What is a PLC or Professional Learning Community
400
Federal law that ensures students with disabilities receive their education, to the maximum extent appropriate, with nondisabled peers and that special education students are not removed from regular classes unless, even with supplemental aids and services, education in regular classes cannot be achieved satisfactorily.
What is the Least Restrictive Environment or LRE
400
A traditional English nursery rhyme and singing game, which is found in different versions all over the world. It deals with the depredations of and attempts, realistic or fanciful, to repair it.
What is London Bridge is Falling Down
400
An instructional approach in which the teacher explicitly models the strategies and skills of proficient readers.
What is Shared Reading
400
A program within the preschool program that saves the district hundreds of thousands of dollars in out of district placement.
What is the Educational Learning Center or ELC
500
In education, the acronym or term refers to systems of instruction, assessment, grading, and academic reporting that are based on students demonstrating understanding or mastery of the knowledge and skills they are expected to learn as they progress through their education
What is SBE or Standards Based Education
500
A four part piece of American legislation ______ that ensures students with a disability are provided with _____ that is tailored to their individual needs.
What is the Individual with Disabilities Education Act or IDEA and a Free and Appropriate Public Education or FAPE
500
This is a song about colors, colors You see them all around. There is red on the stop sign, Green on a tree, Blue in the sky and sea.
500
Early childhood assessments that enable early childhood and pre-k instructors to identify children at-risk of developmental delays early and monitor development gains often to help children learn skills crucial to school success.
What is myIGDIs or Individual Growth and Development Indicators
500
These teachers LOVE their preschool materials so much so they the most stuff in the Parker basement!
Who are Cindy and Jenn!!