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As a result of PL 94-142, what changes occurred in education for students with disabilities? Correct Answer: Education is to be provided to all children (6-18) who meet age eligibility requirements. What important refinement in special education was a result of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA, 2004)? Correct Answer: Established that special education teachers become highly qualified if they teach core academic content to students with disabilities. Rule 6A-6.03011, Florida Administrative Code (FAC), stated that the term "mental retardation" be changed to Correct Answer: intellectual disability The 2004 Amendments to IDEA emphasize that more than 30 years of research indicate that the education of children with disabilities can be made more effective by
Correct Answer: providing incentives for whole school approaches and pre-referral intervention to reduce the need to label children as disabled in order to address their learning needs. PL 99-457 extended the services provided to school-aged children with disabilities. What is the correct range of ages addressed by this law? Correct Answer: 3 - 5 years According to federal law-IDEA 2004, Part C, at what age is a child no longer eligible for the Early Steps program? Correct Answer: 36 months The amendment to the Federal Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008... Correct Answer: created a new program to expand the number of postsecondary programs for students with intellectual disablities Requirements outlined in IDEA that give parents the rights to participate, receive notice, and give permission (consent) are known as Correct Answer: procedural safeguards According to IDEA, what term describes the right of a student with a disability to special services that will meet their individual learning needs, at no cost to the parents? Correct Answer: free & appropriate public education
Signals for learning disabilities are characteristics of students with learning disabilities. What are some of those signals? Correct Answer: Has trouble understanding and following directions, is not efficient or effective in using learning strategies, has difficulty allocating time and organizing work. Federal law (IDEA) requires that all students be included in statewide testing. An exception to this law includes Correct Answer: a small number of students with a significant cognitive disabilities take the Florida Alternate Assessment High stakes tests are assessment designed to measure whether students have attained learning standards. These tests are a type of assessment referred to as Correct Answer: criterion-referenced What test summarizes student performance using grade equivalents and/or percentile ranks? Correct Answer: norm-referenced alternate assessments can be collected by... Correct Answer: portfolio, performance assessment, check list of skills.
a frequent and ongoing measurement of student knowledge and skills and the examination of student data to evaluate instruction is Correct Answer: progress monitoring what are the considerations when assessing student progress, designing interventions, and interpreting English language learners' (ELLs') responses to interventions. Correct Answer: second language acquisition, best practices for English language learners, cultural variations. What are the qualities of a universally designed assessment? Correct Answer: nonbiased items, simple & clear instructions and procedures, precise definition of what is being measured under the common core state standards, portions of the FCAT will be replaced by a new assessment that aligns with the CCSS known as Correct Answer: Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) One of the primary purposes of early intervention services is to Correct Answer: recommend interventions and document attempts for academic and/or behavior problems
a text strategy used to compare and contrast characters, events, and/or settings is a Correct Answer: Venn diagram The Common Core State Standards were built on international benchmarks and enable our students ________ Correct Answer: to compete with peers on both national and international levels The process of focusing on common core curriculum on predetermined goals or benchmarks that identify the content students should understand and the skills they should have after completing an area of study is best described as __________ Correct Answer: standards based education One of the major obstacles in evaluating student progress is Correct Answer: planning and organizing an evaluation system Documents published by the states that typically include common core standards learning activities, and performance expectations for students are best described as Correct Answer: common core curriculum guides By focusing on the essential knowledge and skills for success in life, the Common Core State Standards address which two major issues in the US?
Correct Answer: Growing number of college students in need of remedial courses and growing skills gap in our workforce If student assessment shows that co-teaching for a particular group of students is not effective, what is the next best course of action? Correct Answer: Increase the intensity of instruction by decreasing the teacher- student ratio (e.g. more small-group support) What level of text should be used for repeated reading? Correct Answer: instructional level What is the primary reason to use the Internet for educational purposes? Correct Answer: Students spend less time in the classroom completing course work at their own convenience Which commonality does NOT describe someone as having emotional disorders/behavioral disorders? Correct Answer: behavior falls at the lower range of the norm A functional behavior assessment (FBA) Correct Answer: identifies and addresses the needs of students with emotional or behavioral disorders
when discussing positive behavior support and functional behavioral assessment, teachers view the student in what way? Correct Answer: in relationship to the factors that influence the behavior What behavior may warrant a behavior change program? Correct Answer: lack of attention to tasks teaching for automaticity means Correct Answer: giving enough practice so that students are able to read both accurately and fluently Instruction for children who have difficulties learning to read must be Correct Answer: explicit, comprehensive, intensive, supportive When children use their knowledge of familiar and predictable letter patterns to speed up the process of reading words, they are in the Correct Answer: consolidated alphabetic phase What are the guidelines for teaching phonemic awareness? Correct Answer: Keep it simple and explicit, teach students to segment and blend phonemes, keep it short
The understanding that individual spoken words can be broken down into individual syllables is known as Correct Answer: phonological awareness What is a strategy that revolves around vocabulary learning by providing a visual display of how words are related to other words? Correct Answer: semantic map High-frequency words are taught as sight words early in children's reading instruction. What are some effective strategies in teaching sight words? Correct Answer: word walls, environmental print, word games. what technique assists students when considering ways to get across the author's meaning using prosodic cues such as pitch, loudness, stress and pauses? Correct Answer: choral reading Contextual analysis is using surrounding context and student prior knowledge of syntax and content for increasing vocabulary acquisition. What strategy would be effective in contextual analysis? Correct Answer: cloze Strategies used during the reciprocal teaching approach framework are Correct Answer: prediction, questioning, clarification, summarization
Correct Answer: a powerful motivation tool for students who find school difficult, teachers should Correct Answer: give them challenges appropriate for their skills one way to reduce isolation of weaker readers is to Correct Answer: have all students reading texts on a common theme conducting an environmental inventory will Correct Answer: define what modifications are needed to increase the participation of students in the classroom as well as in community environments what category of transition activities prepares a student for a future career? Correct Answer: employment
