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Addressing Behaviors
Differentiation Strategies
Assessment
Special Needs
Curriculum
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A plan focusing on how the learning environment will change to address a student’s behavior, characteristics, strengths, and challenges that includes specific measurable goals for appropriate behaviors and the individuals, interventions, supports, and services responsible for helping the student achieve these goals.
What is a Behavioral Intervention Plan?
100
A visual-spatial illustration (i.e., webs, matrices, time lines, process chains, cycles, and networks) of the key terms that make up concepts and their interrelationships.
What is a graphic organizer?
100
Variations in testing administration, environment, equipment, technology, and procedures that allow students to access testing programs and accurately demonstrate their competence, knowledge, and abilities without altering the nature and integrity of the tests and the results or giving students an advantage over others.
What are testing accommodations?
100
A written, individualized program listing the special education and related services students with disabilities will receive to address their unique strengths and challenges.
What is an IEP?
100
Allowing students who demonstrate mastery at the beginning of a unit of study to work on new and more challenging material or student selected topics via alternate learning activities.
What is curriculum compacting?
200
The unstated, culturally based social skills and rules that are essential to successful function ing in classrooms, schools, and social situations.
What is the hidden curriculum?
200
A technique used to give each student in a group a chance to participate that involves assigning a specific role to each member of the group.
What is role delineation?
200
A term used to refer to tests whose results are used to make important decisions about students’ educational programs, including grade-level promotion and graduation.
What is high-stakes testing?
200
A classroom where students go to receive individualized remedial instruction, usually in small groups.
What is a resource room?
200
An integrated bilingual educational program that mixes students who speak languages other than English with students who speak English and offers content in each language approximately 50% of the time.
What is a dual language bilingual program?
300
A technique for reducing inappropriate behavior that involves withholding positive reinforcers, such as teacher attention.
What is planned ignoring?
300
A type of cooperative learning arrangement that involves dividing students into groups, with each student assigned a task that is essential in reaching the group’s goal. Every member makes a contribution that is integrated with the work of others to produce the group’s product.
What is a jigsaw?
300
A grading system in which the individualized goals, differentiation techniques, and performance criteria on students’ IEPs serve as the reference point for judging student progress and assigning grades.
What is an IEP grading system?
300
A disability condition whereby students demonstrate significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the develop mental period, which adversely affects their educational performance.
What is an intellectual disability?
300
A curricular accommodation that involves teaching a diverse group of students individualized skills from different curricular areas.
What is Curriculum overlapping?
400
Grading systems that involve students being graded based on their progress in comparison with their past performance, ability levels, effort, and special needs.
What is a self-referenced grading system?
400
A cooperative technique used during teacher-directed presentations where students work in groups to periodically respond to discussion questions, react to material presented, or predict what will happen or be discussed next. Groups also are asked to share their responses and summarize the main points and check each other’s comprehension at the end of presentations.
What are collaborative discussion teams?
400
A process for identifying students with learning disabilities by determining whether there is a significant gap between their learning potential and academic achievement.
What is the IQ-Achievement Discrepancy Model?
400
A description of the student’s current skills, strengths, and challenges that serve as a baseline for determining instructional goals and the necessary special education and related services.
What are present levels of performance?
400
A logical relationship among the curriculum, learning goals, teaching materials, and strategies used in the general education classroom and supportive services programs.
What is congruence?
500
A person centered, multimethod problem-solving process that involves gathering information to determine why, where, and when a student uses behaviors; identifying the variables that appear to lead to and maintain the behaviors; and planning appropriate interventions that address the purposes that the behaviors serve for students.
What is a Functional Behavioral Assessment?
500
A cooperative technique used to review and check student understanding of orally presented information that involves (1) assigning students to mixed-ability groups of three or four; (2) giving each student in each group a number (1, 2, 3, or 4); (3) breaking up the oral presentation by periodically asking the class a question and telling each group, “Put your heads together and make sure that everyone in your group knows the answer”; and (4) having the groups end their discussion, calling a number and selecting one of the students with that number to answer, and asking the other students with that number to agree with or expand on the answer.
What is Numbered Heads Together?
500
Tests that allow teachers to compare student’s performance with a specific level of skill mastery.
What is criterion-referenced testing?
500
An individually based principle that calls for schools to educate students with disabilities as much as possible with their peers who do not have disabilities.
What is the least restrictive environment?
500
A type of curriculum-based assessment whereby assessment probes are created by teachers and administered informally across the curriculum to monitor student progress in learning single or sequential skills.
What is mastery measurement?