Special Ed.
Learning
Lesson Plans/ Potpourri
Theories/ Big Ideas
Assessments/ Potpourri
100

This part of IDEA guarantees that students will be 'mainstreamed' or put into general education classrooms with non-disable peers. 

What is a LRE  (Least Restrictive Environment)?

100

Preferred processing styles, these are conditions that learners are believed that they work best.

What is learning styles?

100

A stage od cognitive development, in which a child applies logic to abstract ideas.

What is formal operational?

100

Abraham Maslow describes the importance of basic needs like love affection and belonging.

What is Maslows Hierarchy of Needs?

100

An task whether formal or summative that allows a teacher to find out information about strengths and weaknesses.

What is assessments?

200

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act which was passed in 1990. I guarantees all children with special needs the rights to access free and appropriate public education.

What is IDEA?

200

Learners who prefer to have on have hands-on or movement- based activities.

What is kinesthetic/ tactile learner?

200

 Classes offered to students who are not native English speakers.

What is ESL or English a Second Language?

200

Howard Gardner described different types of intelligences that individuals can display like reading, logical/ mathematical.

What is Gardner's Multiple Intelligences?

200

The federal office, headed by the Secretary of Education that makes decisions about learning and teaching.

What is the US Department of Education?

300

Free and Appropriate Public Education

What is FAPE?

300

Any issue that impedes a student from learning.

What is a Barrier to learning?

300

These are signs like body language and facial expressions that communicate ideas and emotions.

What is non-verbal cues?

300

Lawerence Kohlberg explained how a child advances through moral growth moving from understanding righ from wrong.

What is Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development? 

300

This is given before a formal test to discover gaps in learning.

What is formal Assessment?

400

A psychological condition that impedes communication and how sensory data is processed.

What is Autism?

400

A learner who prefers hearing-based activities. 

What is an auditory Learner?

400

This part of the lesson plan will list new skills the student will be able to master after the lesson.

What is Objective?

400

Developed by Benjamin Bloom list increasingly complex and rigorous task students can undertake when learning new concepts.

What is Bloom's Taxonomy?

400

These are standardized tests and performance assessments.

What is Summative Assessment? 

500

An Individual plan that describes how a student's exceptionality affects his or her ability in the classroom.

What is IEP?

500

A type of group play or learning where children work together to achieve a common goal.

What is cooperative groups or group play?

500

A term used in lessons planning that describes a path of inquiry.

What is essential question?

500

Created by Norman Webb and known as DOK, it demonstrates levels of complexity in questioning and performance task. 

What is Webb's Depth of Knowledge?

500

A tactic used by a teacher or teacher's aid to help students learn new material.

What is teaching Strategy?