Creating Inclusive Environments
This teaching model encourages two teachers to work together in cooperative settings to ensure student success.
Co-teaching
A school-wide system that promotes positive behavior, independence, and positive socialization among students
School-wide positive behavioral intervention and supports (SWPBIS)
a team of educators, teachers, and families coming together to discuss the educational concerns of students
multi-disciplinary team
Involves a dialogue between teachers and students where teachers provide a reading passage and students work on reading comprehension strategies after they have been modeled, and then have a discussion about it
Reciprocal Teaching
these accommodations are listed on a student's IEP to indicate how students can show their knowledge without compromising the integrity of the test
testing accommodations
Educators working together to solve problems, address behavioral and academic issues, and come up with solutions.
Collaborative consultation
occurs before the behavior happened
Antecedent
refers to the disability categories: learning disabilities, attention deficit disorders, and speech-language disorders
High-incidence disabilities
a method that has students state the main idea of a passage in ten words or less
Paragraph Shrinking
measuring a student's performance or knowledge before an assessment or lesson
baseling
involves moving students from one setting into another setting
transitions
objective recordings that are used to help educators understand the context of the behaviors
anecdotal recordings
a philosophy that brings diverse students, families, educators, and community members to create schools that are based on acceptance, belonging, and community
Inclusion
when students understand that in order to achieve their goal, they must work together
Postive Interdependence
the act of students stating their thinking processes while working on their assigned tasks
think-aloud techniques
A four-step model that can serve as a framework to help students transition into inclusive settings.
Transenvironmental programming
A way to teach students about students with disabilities, it requires students to simulate the experience of having a disability
Disability simulation
provided opportunities that are parallel to society, community, and life
Examples of this include: giving students story maps, text prompts, and graphic organizers
Self-monitoring
this test-making method should be avoided, it requires students to answer prior questions correctly to get the next questions correctly
Hinging
This is an aspect of FERPA and IDEA that insures privacy for students and their families
Confidentiality
a problem solving approach that allows educators to analyze and measure behaviors and come up with behavioral interventions
functional behavior assessment (FBA)
This act mandates that a free and appropriate public education must be provided for all students.
Public Law 94-142: Education for All Handicapped Children Act
Examples of this include: content enhancements, word processing programs, spell-checkers, and peer-mediated instruction
Low-Impact Differentiation Techniques
giving letter grades or numerical grades to compare how well a student has mastered a standard or concept
norm-referenced grading system