Standard 3 Flashcards
(10 cards)
Accommodations
Accommodations are changes in the way students demonstrate what they know to address the special needs of students with disabilities to “level the playing field.” Some common accommodations include including providing more time, different scheduling, a different learning setting, or a different means of presentation or mode of response to learning.
Modifications
modifications involve changing the character of the work assigned to a student with disabilities. This usually involves reducing the learning expectations for that student, because he or she is simply not able to meet the same standard as typical students.
Scaffolding
scaffolding is a way of providing support to make sure students succeed at complex tasks they couldn’t do on their own, initially. As the students become more skillful, the teacher gives them more responsibility, and gradually removes the support when it is no longer needed, just as scaffolding used by construction workers is removed once the building is complete.
Differentiation
Differentiation involves offering several different learning experiences in response to students’ varied needs. Learning activities and materials may be varied by difficulty to challenge students at different readiness levels, by topic in response to students’ interests, and by students’ preferred ways of learning or expressing themselves
RTI
Response to Intervention (RTI). RTI involves a process of determining appropriate, research-based support and interventions to supplement the core curriculum to meet the needs of all learners.
Interventions
Interventions are targeted, intensive instruction matched to individual needs, these are provided for students who are not making adequate progress with normal classroom instruction.
Positive behavior supports
positive behavior support is an approach to changing student behaviors that interfere with learning by enacting a set of research-based strategies. These strategies are intended to decrease problem behaviors by teaching new skills and making changes in a person’s environment.
Cooperative learning groups
Cooperative learning groups involve students being given one or more tasks to complete collaboratively. This teaching strategy combines teamwork with individual and group accountability. Working in small teams, with individuals of varying talents, abilities, and backgrounds, the teacher or the group often assigns each team member a personal responsibility that is essential to successful completion of the task.
Collaboration
Collaboration involves teachers and paraeducators working together to accomplish goals more successfully than they could have on their own. Paraeducators often work in the classroom alongside the teacher, working with individuals or small groups of students to support them in meeting the instructional goals that teachers have determined.
Consultation
Consultation involves a variety of educators all bringing their individual expertise together to share insights into a particular situation. Special education teachers, school counselors, social workers, behavior support specialists, and many others may be called upon to consult with classroom teachers to support students in learning.
