Chapters 1 & 2
Involves delivering and monitoring a specially designed and coordinated set of comprehensive, evidence-based, and universally designed instructional and assessment practices and related services to students with learning, behavioral, emotional, physical, health, or sensory disabilities.
What is special education?
Disability categories as learning disabilities, mild emotional/behavioral disorders, mild intellectual disabilities, attention deficit disorders, and speech/language disorders
What is high-incidence disabilities?
Households headed by family members other than their parents
What is extended families?
How the classroom is designed and what instructional groupings they use
What is learning environment?
the awareness of sound
What is phonological awareness?
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?
Conditions as perceptual handicaps, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia
What is a learning disability?
Essential to establishing a trusting and collaborative relationship with families and students
What is confidentiality?
Content-based instruction, uses cues, gestures, technology, manipulatives, drama, and visual stimuli and aids to teach new vocabulary and concepts
What is sheltered instruction?
a diagram or map of the key ideas and words that make up the topic
What is semantic map?
Requires schools to educate students with disabilities as much as possible with their peers who do not have disabilities
What is least restrictive environment?
Social language skills that guide students in developing social relationships and engaging in casual face-to-face conversations
What is basic interpersonal communication skills?
Access to the resources they need to succeed
What is resource availability?
Eye contact and gestures, as well as awareness of the reactions of their peers, can increase a student’s listening skills
What is nonverbal cues?
An ordered list of the chapter’s main points with key words blanked out
What is a framed outline?
Ongoing assessments to make data- based decisions regarding your students’ learning progress and the effectiveness of your instructional practices
What is progress monitoring?
Treating students differently because of their characteristics and membership in a group
What is disparate treatment?
The belief that individuals with disabilities are in need of assistance, fixing, and pity
What is ableism?
Statement or an engaging activity that introduces the content, skills and strategies and motivates students to learn them by relating the goals of the lesson to their prior knowledge, interests, strengths, and future life events
What is anticipatory set?
Critical topics, concepts, issues, problems, experiences, or principles that assist students in organizing, interrelating, and applying information so that meaningful links can be established between the content and students’ lives
What is big ideas?
A summary of the student’s current academic, socialization, behavioral, communication, and functional skills
What is present levels of performance?
Having the resolve to take positive actions to pursue one’s dreams or passions
What is grit?
The cognitive, verbal, and nonverbal skills that guide interactions with others
What is social skills?
Some members fail to contribute and allow others to do the majority of the work
What is free-rider effect?
Giving numerical or letter grades to compare students using the same academic standards
What is norm-referenced grading systems?