Differentiated Instruction Flashcards
Explicit Teaching
the process of teaching by communicating clear expectations and giving specific feedback to students
Flexible Grouping
grouping students based on their learning needs or interests
Qualitative Assessments
assessments that describe a person, object, or activity
Inclusion
ensuring students with disabilities are included in classroom activities as much as possible
Instructional Interventions
additional focus on a specific skill in an effort to improve it
Modeling
an instructional strategy in which the teacher demonstrates a concept or skill and students learn by observing
Decoding
in reading out loud, being able to sound out words by breaking them into simple forms; in reading for comprehension, the understanding of how to read each letter or letter pattern in a word to determine the word’s meaning
Peer Mentors / Coaches
other teachers that work to help improve a teacher’s best practice
Guided Practice
a phase of instruction in which the students practice with teacher support
Diversity
representations of people with their different cultures, which can be in language, social status, age, ethnicity, or other traits within a group
Phonics / Graphophonemic Principle
using the relationship between symbols (letters and words) and sounds of a language to read and write
Fluent
a reader is fluent if they read accurately, with prosody, and at an appropriate speed
Response to Intervention (RtI)
a process to monitor and measure student progress in the general education curriculum after instructional intervention is provided
Quantitative Assessments
assessments that objectively measure a specific performance
Task Analysis
Breaking a skill into small steps to guide students toward accomplishing a goal
Overlearning
the process of practicing a skill after demonstrating mastery
Appropriateness
Determine whether the subject matter is appropriate for the students’ maturity level
Dysgraphia
language-based disorder, in which one struggles with the mechanics of writing resulting in impaired or illegible handwriting
Manipulative
a physical object to help students move from concrete to abstract reasoning
Skip Counting
the practice of counting by 5s, 10s, 20s, 25s, and 100s
Glasser’s Lead Teacher Concept
promoting student engagement by deliberately choosing topics, instructional methods, and materials that relate to students’ insterests
Universal Theme
common ideas that appear in literature across all cultures
Scaffolding
providing support to students to achieve a task
Formative Assessments
ongoing evaluations to monitor student progress
Differentiated Instruction
tailoring teaching methods to meet individual needs
Maintenance
practicing a skill until demonstrating independent mastery
