Education 101
Famous Educators
Special Education
NYSED
Literacy
100

This is the person who guides students' learning and instruction in a classroom.

Who is the teacher?

100

He is known as the Father of American Education.

Who is Horace Mann?

100

This is a legally binding education plan.

What is an IEP?

100

This articulates what all students should know and be able to do as a result of skilled instruction in subject areas and at grade levels.

What are learning standards?

100

This is the ability to hear and manipulate the individual sounds in spoken words.

What is phonemic awareness?

200

This is the process of gaining knowledge, skills, values or understanding.

What is learning?

200

She was an Italian educator who believed in a prepared environment that supported independence in students.

Who is Maria Montessori?

200

This is the name of a law that makes available a free appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities throughout the nation and ensures special education and related services to those children.

What is IDEA - The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?

200

You need this amount of fieldwork hours before you are able to student teach, specifically a certain amount working with students with disabilities. 

What are 100 hours including 15 working with students with disabilities?

200

This involves teaching students the relationship between letters and the sounds they represent.

What is phonics?

300

This is the term used for I do, We do, You do.

What is Gradual Release of Responsibility?

300

He believed in hands-on active learning, where students learn by doing.

Who is John Dewey?

300

This program offers a variety of therapeutic and support services to eligible infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families. 

What is early intervention?

300

If your major is Early Education, how many certification exams do you need to take?

What are 6 exams?

300

This is the ability to read accurately quickly, and with appropriate expression.

What is fluency?

400

This is the method and practice of teaching, especially as an academic subject or theoretical concept.

What is pedagogy?

400

He developed a classification of learning objectives ranging from lower to higher thinking skills.

Who is Benjamin Bloom?

400

This reflects the IDEA’s strong preference for educating children with disabilities in regular classes with appropriate aids and supports.

What is the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)?

400

This online system is used by New York educators to apply for their teaching certificates, stores fingerprints and workshops.

What is TEACH?

400

This part of reading involves understanding the meaning of what you read.

What is comprehension?

500

 This is an instructional strategy where the teacher makes their thinking, actions, and decision-making visible.

What is modeling?

500

He created the hierarchy of needs. 

Who is Abraham Maslow?

500

This alters what a student is expected to learn.

What is a modification?

500

Name the 03 workshops you need by the end of this semester.

What is DASA, School Violence Prevention and Child Abuse Identification and Reporting?

500

These five areas are commonly identified as essential components of effective early reading instruction.

What are phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension?