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Chapter 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Prereferral | The process of referring a child suspected of having a disability to a multidisciplinary team that decides whether the student should be referred for special education evaluation or whether adjustments in teaching should be tried first. |
| Multidisciplinary Team | A team of individuals from different disciplines that typically decide whether a struggling student should be referred for special education or whether and what interventions should be tried first to see if the student improves |
| RTI (Response to Intervention) | A way of determining whether a student has a learning disability: Increasing intensive levels of instructional intervention and delivered, and if the student does not achieve (they are determined to have a learning disability or referred to SE) |
| Screening Instruments | Quick measures administered to determine who may need further assessment. |
| Progress Monitoring | Assessments are frequent measures that teachers administer at regular intervals and that provide information n whether a student is learning as expected. May be given to a large number of students in a short amount of time |
| Curriculum Based measurement | A formative evaluation method designed to evaluate performance in the curriculum to which students are exposed, usually involves giving students a small sample of items from the curriculum in use at their schools. |
| Early Intervening Services | IDEA allows for academic or behavioral supports or related services for students in grades K-12 |
| Individualized Education Program (IEP) | IDEA requires am IEP to be drawn up by educational team for each exceptional child (present educational performance, goals, services provided) |
| Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP) | A plan mandated by PL 99-457 to provide services for young children with disabilities and their families: drawn up my professionals and parents. |
| Transition Plans | A plan defined in a student's IEP that specifies the students' goals and services related to transitioning from high school to post high school experiences. |
| Supported Employment | A method of integrating people with disabilities who cannot work independently into competitive employment |
| Collaborative Consultation | An approach in a special educator and a general educator collaborative to come up with teaching strategies for a student with disabilities |
| Co-Teaching | An approach in which general educators and special educators teach together in the general classroom |
| Cooperative Learning | A teaching approach in which the teacher places students with heterogenous abilities together to work on assignments |
| Peer Mediated Instruction | The deliberate use of a student's classroom peers to assist in teaching an academic or social skill |
| Peer Confederates | Peers who assist the teacher |
| Peer Tutoring | A method that can be used to integrate students with disabilities into general education classrooms, based on the notion that students can effectively tutor one another. |
| Class wide Peer Tutoring (CWPT) | An instructional procedure in which all students in the class are involved in tutoring and being tutored by classmates on specific skills as directed by their teacher. |
| Partial Participation | An approach in which students with disabilities (while in a general education classroom) engage in the same activities as students without disabilities but on a reduced basis. Teacher adapts the activity to allow each student to participate. |
| Accommodations | Changes in the delivery of instruction type of student performance or method of assessment that do not significantly change the content or conceptual difficulty of the curriculum |
| Adaptations | Changes in curricular content or conceptual difficulty or changes in instructional objectives and methods |
| Tiered Assignments | Assignments varying in difficulty but on a single topic |