What's the Meaning?
Putting the person before the disability.
What is person first language?
Law that sets the guidelines/requirements for students in special education.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
A strategy proven through research to be effective in ensuring teaching results in student learning.
What is an Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)?
Values, traditions, languages, symbols, beliefs, and attitudes of a group of people.
What is culture?
To understand memory, you have to understand how this works.
What is the brain?
Something that changes the way a lesson is taught.
What is an accommodation?
Students receiving special education services are required to have this plan.
What is an Individualized Education Plan (IEP)?
Choral reading, echo reading, and repeated reading are EBPs for teaching this.
What is reading fluency?
Using the cultural characteristics, experiences, and perspectives of ethnically diverse students as conduits for teaching them more effectively.
What is culturally responsive teaching (CRT)?
Teachers must gain this from their students in order to help them create a short-term memory.
What is attention?
Something that changes what is taught (the curriculum).
What is a modification?
Guarantees rights beyond school to anyone with a disability.
What is Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act?
An EBP for teaching both math word problems and reading comprehension that requires students to organize the important information.
School subject that is often incomplete or incorrect and makes culturally responsive teaching difficult.
What is history?
Information must enter this before it can become a long-term memory.
What is short-term memory?
Specialized tools or equipment provided to students with disabilities to assist them in the educational process.
What is Assistive Technology?
Under IDEA, students with disabilities are guaranteed the right to this type of public education.
What is free appropriate?
Modeling a process and using mnemonic devices are EBPs for teaching this.
What is writing?
It is important to find this out in order to effectively connect with families.
What is their story?
One of the most important methods for creating a short-term memory.
What is repetition?
Tool or method teachers use/teach to help students learn material or complete a task.
What is a strategy?
Under IDEA, students with disabilities must be educated in the general education program to the maximum extent possible.
What is Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)?
Strategy used in teaching math that moves from concrete, to representational, to abstract when presenting material.
What is Graduated Instructional Sequence?
Teachers should disconnect these from those of their students when connecting with families.
What are personal experiences?
A teaching method that limits lectures and encourages exercise breaks, team learning, and peer teaching.
What is brain-based learning?