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Instructional Strategies
Curriculum modification and accommodations
Factors related to Academic Progress
Educational Policies
Academic Interventions
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An instructional strategy which simultaneously addressees academic and social skill learning, utilizes small, heterogenous grouping, and involves elements such as Positive Interdependence, Face to Face Interaction, Individual Accountability, Social Skills, and Group Processing.
What is cooperative learning?
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This term describes any tool that helps students with disabilities do things more quickly, easily, or independently; can be elaborate and expensive or simple and low-cost. This is also used to provide accommodations, modifications, or adaptations made to environment, curriculum, instruction, or assessment practices.
What is assistive technology?
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Two factors related to Academic Progress are Family Involvement and Language Proficiency. Two other factors that related to student academic progress are
What are Skills of teachers and School Conditions.
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Research indicates that this model is a failed practice, less cost effective than remediation/prevention, and is warranted due to the fact that the student lacks serious academic skills and has difficulty due to limited access to instruction.
What is retention?
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A Formative Evaluation occurs throughout implementation of the intervention to determine success so it can be modified/changed to increase the achievement of goals. The method of evaluating learning outcomes which occurs after intervention is completed is
What is summative evaluation.
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What are noted as two factors which produce low rates of actual engagement time?
What are (1) poor instructional design and (2) ineffective classroom management?
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The use of wheelchairs, walkers, and standing aides are examples of assistive technology useful for physical disabilities. Two additional examples of assistive technology include
What is (4)wheelchairs, recreational vehicles like bikes or scooters, drawing software (2)remote controls, modified keyboards, head pointers (3)FM units, hearing aids, CCTV's
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A portion of time allocated to content area during which students are actively and productively engaged in learning.
What is Academic Learning Time?
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The advancement of students to higher grade based on age rather than demonstrated academic accomplishment.
What is Social Promotion?
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In the process of designing and implementing interventions, this process always occurs first.
What is identify and define problem.
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This instructional strategy recognizes students' varying background knowledge, readiness, language, preferences in learning and interests. Using this method, teachers create different pathways that respond to the needs of diverse learners.
What is differentiated instruction?
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As defined by IDEA, this model for modifications and accommodations involves adapting content, methodology , or delivery of instruction to address the unique needs that result from the child's disability, and ensures the child has access to the general curriculum.
What is Specially Designed Instruction?
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Name three school conditions that contribute to academic success/failure.
A) Safe schools to promote optimal academic achievement for all B) Teacher school staff crisis management and intervention techniques C) Foster caring and supportive relationships between students and staff D) crowd control E) improve lighting F) enforce dress code G) post signs that communicate zero tolerance for prohibited behaviors H) personalize schools to motivate students
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High stakes testing is intended to yield four (4) main outcome. One of these outcomes is better aligned curricula. What are the other three (3)?
What are (a) increase motivation (b) more equitable educational opportunities (c) increased overall efficiency
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This step in implementing academic interventions allows the interventionist to determine if progress was made as a result of the intervention.
What is progress monitoring to evaluate effectiveness.
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Of the four categories for measuring engagement time, two of these are Scheduled Time and Allocated Time. The other two categories are
What are (3) Academic Engaged Time and (4) Active Academic Responding Time?
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This method of Specially Designed Instruction must be designed by a special education teacher; they are specially designed direct instruct where standard or core content is modified, and allow the student to work at his or her own level.
What is modification?
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Which level of language proficiency is demonstrated by the statement below: "Juana likes cumbia and hip-hop" "Compared to Juana, Javier enjoys researching musician biographies"
What is BICS and CALP
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Example of a high stakes test and a low stakes test include
What is STAR (any high stakes test) & What is Likert scales tests, open ended questions , qualitative
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These are the four components of academic interventions.
What are (a) Designing and implementing interventions (b) monitoring interventions (c) evaluating learning outcomes (d) treatment integrity and fidelity
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While one method of scaffolding involves 1 on 1 teaching, pairing and grouping students, personalizing information, "jigsawing," use of routines and role playing, another method of scaffolding involves using graphic organizers, word walls, manipulative and visual cues, and posting schedules.
What is the difference between procedural scaffolding and instructional scaffolding?
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Which of the following is NOT true of "specifically designed instruction": -A)It requires that classroom accommodations be used for student -B)It is a required part of the IEP document -C)It is meant to ensure access to the general curriculum in order for each child to meet the educational standards -D)It is meant to address the unique needs of the child that result from his odd her disability -E)It is defined as adapting the content, methodology, or delivery of instruction.
What is A) Accommodations; rationale: It allows the student successful access to the day to day classroom activities but do not require specially designed instruction
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Name three (3) characteristics which influence collaboration between home and school.
Family characteristics Child characteristics School personnel characteristics Neighborhood characteristics Time constraints
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High stakes testing is intended to yield four (4) main outcomes. Which of the following is not an intended outcome of high stakes testing? A) more efficient tracking methods B) better aligned curricula C) increased motivation D) more equitable educational opportunities E) increased overall efficiency
What is A) more efficient tracking methods Rational - tracking is found to be an UNINTENTIONAL result of high stakes testing. It is when students are assigned to segregated classrooms based on high-stakes training needs.
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As you are observing a teacher implementing an intervention, you notice the intervention lacks accuracy and is not faithfully reproduced from the manual. This intervention would be considered low in
What is treatment fidelity