Ch 1 & 2
Involves delivering and monitoring a specially designed and coordinated set of comprehensive, universally designed, and evidence-based instructional and assessment practices and related services.
What is special education?
include those with learning disabilities, attention deficit disorders, mild emotional and behavioral disorders, mild intellectual disabilities, and speech/language impairments.
Who are students with high-incidence disabilities?
cooperative or collaborative teaching
What is co-teaching?
a person-centered, multimethod problem-solving process that involves gathering information
What is an FBA?
relates to taking actions as a result of external consequences, such as tangible rewards and approval from others
What is Extrinsic motivation?
Is a philosophy that brings students, families, educators, and community members together to create schools based on acceptance, belonging, and community.
What is inclusion?
physical, sensory, multiple, and significant disabilities
What are low-incidence disabilities?
support staff for teachers and students
Who are paraprofessionals?
the observer counts the number of behaviors that occur during the observation period,
What is event recording?
refers to taking actions as a result of internally based consequences
What is Intrinsic motivation?
Requires that students with disabilities be educated as much as possible with their peers without disabilities.
What is least restrictive environment?
have encountered circumstances that caused them to have limited, erratic, or nonexistent access to schooling
Who are students with interrupted formal education?
supportive services educators teach new content that supports the content to be learned in the inclusive classroom.
What is the a priori model?
the events, stimuli, objects, actions, and activities that precede and trigger the behavior and that follow and maintain the behavior.
What are the Antecedents and consequences?
a student’s ability to read smoothly with proper levels of expression stress, pauses, volume, and intonation.
What is prosody?
includes statements related to (1) the present level of performance in the general education curriculum; (2) measurable annual goals aligned to the general education curriculum; (3) special education and related services, including supplementary aids and services and other supports; (4) extent of participation in general education; (5) participation in assessments, including testing accommodations and alternate assessments; (6) evaluation of student progress in achieving IEP goals and communication with families; (7) assistive technology devices and services; (8) transition services; and (9) special considerations related to behavior, English proficiency, and students with sensory disabilities.
What is an IEP?
programs employ both the native and the new language and culture of students to teach them.
What are bilingual education?
The four steps in the model are (1) ecological assessment, (2) intervention and preparation, (3) generalization to the new setting, and (4) evaluation in the new environment.
What is the transenvironmental programming model.
relates to your use of assessment strategies during instruction to monitor your students’ learning progress and to use this information to adjust your instruction to foster student learning.
What is a formative assessment?
a procedure designed to foster student learning by delivering prompts that limit the likelihood that students will make errors
What is time delay?
include family members, general and special educators, a representative of the school district who is knowledgeable about the general education curriculum and the availability of resources, an individual who can determine the instructional implications of the evaluation results, and the student, when appropriate.
treating students differently because of their characteristics and membership in a group.
What is disparate treatment?
the unstated, culturally based social skills and rules that are essential to successful functioning in classrooms, schools, and social situations
What is the hidden curriculum?
focuses on your use of assessments at the end of instruction to assess student mastery of specific content, topics, and concepts and skills taught and to report student achievement
What is a Summative assessment?
involves (1) giving students the opportunity to respond without assistance, (2) providing assistance (if needed) by modeling the correct response and having students imitate it, and (3) physically guiding students in making the correct response (if needed)
What is the system of least prompts?