Foundations and Fundamentals
What is Special Education?
what is involves delivering and monitoring a specially designed and coordinated set of comprehensive, evidence-based, and universally designed instructional and assessment practices and related services to students with learning, behavioral, emotional, physical, health, or sensory disabilities?
What are the four-steps of transenvironmental programming?
What is (1) ecological assessment, (2) intervention and preparation, (3) generalization to the new setting, and (4) evaluation in the new environment.
What is the Center for Applied Special Education Technology’s (CAST) UDL Curriculum Self-Check Learning Tool used for?
What is to practice evaluating the accessibility of your goals, methods, materials, and assessments?
What are testing accommodations?
What are variations in testing administration, environment, equipment, technology, and procedures that allow students to access tests and accurately demonstrate their competence, knowledge, and abilities without altering the integrity of the tests?
What is One teaching/one collecting data/helping?
What is one teacher instructs the whole class while the other teacher circulates to collect information on students' performance or to offer support, redirection, and enrichment to individual students?
What is Inclusion?
What is a philosophy that brings diverse students, families, educators, and community members together to create schools and other social institutions based on acceptance, belonging, and community
What is an ecological assessment?
What is involves analyzing the critical features of the learning environment and the key skills that affect student academic, behavioral, and social performance and interviewing teachers and students?
What is the language experience reading approach?
What is belief that what students think about, they can talk about; what students can say, they can write or have someone write for them; and what students can write, they can read?
What are Presentation mode testing accommodations?
What are changes in the way test questions and directions are presented to students?
What is parallel teaching?
What is both teachers teach the same material at the same time to two equal groups of students?
What does the application of UDL mean?
What is educators need to be prepared to identify educational barriers that hinder student access and performance and then plan ways to minimize those barriers by building differentiation, preference, and accommodation into their practices to foster student access and success
What is generalization?
What is the transfer of training so students use the skills you have taught them independently in their inclusive classrooms?
What is the whole language approach?
What is students’ natural language and experiences in and out of school to immerse them in a supportive, stimulating, natural learning environment that promotes their literacy
What are response mode testing accommodations?
What are making changes in the way students respond to test items or determine their answers?
What is station teaching?
What is both teachers teach different content or review that content or use different learning activities at the same time to two equal groups of students?
What is a dual language program?
What is a two-way program, that mixes students who speak languages other than English with students who speak English?
What is supported employment?
What is ongoing assistance and services as individuals learn how to obtain competitive employment, perform and hold a job, travel to and from work, interact with coworkers, work successfully in integrated community settings, and receive a salary that reflects the prevailing wage rate?
What is Concrete-representational-abstract (CRA)?
What is an effective developmental instructional sequence for teaching a wide range of mathematics content? CRA is implemented developmentally in three stages: (1) concrete, (2) semiconcrete or representational, and (3) abstract and teacher modeling followed by student practice.
What are linguistically based testing accommodations?
What are used with English language learners, are designed to minimize the extent to which students’ language proficiency affects their test performance?
What is alternative teaching?
What is one teacher works with a smaller group or individual students while the other teacher works with a larger group
What is language proficiency?
what is the degree of skill in speaking the language(s) and includes receptive and expressive language skills?
What is attribution training?
What is teaching students to analyze the events and actions that lead to success and failure and using this information to support their learning?
What is Rule-governed spelling approaches?
What is an instructional approach to teaching spelling based on helping students learn to use morphemic and phonemic analysis and basic spelling rules
What are timing, scheduling, and setting testing accommodations?
What are adjustments with respect to where, when, with whom, and for how long and often students take tests and include giving students extended time or allowing them to take tests in a more private location?
What is team teaching?
What is both teachers plan and teach the lesson together to the whole class and blend their content knowledge, perspective, and instructional, assessment, and management practices?