Exam 1 Flashcards
What is SPED
- Education that is free to parents and families in public schools
- Specifically designed instructions
- Supplementary aids and services
- Related services
Treatment during the Ag. Revolution?
- Natural selection
- slavery, abuse, abandonment, infanticide
- eugenics
Treatment during the Industrial Revolution?
- Labels of people with disabilities
- Potential contributions to society
- Burden of society
- Eugenics as a science and social responsibility
Treatment during the Informational Revolution? 1900’s
- education is a privilege and not a right
- new exclusion on basis of ability (Stanford-Binet test)
Treatment during the Informational Revolution?
1920’s-1960’s
- schools can choose who they serve
- compulsory laws in regards to exclusion of children with disabilities
- separate classes
- separate schools
- inclusion occurred but was very rare
Treatment during the Informational Revolution?
1950’s-1960’s
- Parental advocacy
- separate but equal
- court cases (Brown vs. Board of Education (1954))
- Legislation and Public Policy
FAPE
Free and appropriate public education for all (1975)
Six major principal of IDEA
- Zero rejection: schools must educate all children with disabilities
- Non-discriminatory identification and evaluations: schools must use non-baised, multi factored methods of evaluation
- Free appropriate public education: An IEP must be developed for each child
- Least Restrictive Environment: must be educated with children without disabilities to the maximum extent appropriate (Mainstream)
- Due process safeguards: Parents’ and children’s rights protected
- Shared decision making: schools must collaborate with parents/ guardians
Members of the IEP Team
- parents
- gen. ed teacher
- special ed teacher
- school system rep. (Principal)
- Evaluation interpreter
- student
- other
IEP
- document for students aged 3-21
- need to be in effect at the beginning of the school year
- reviewed and revised at least once a year
IFSP
- Document for children aged 0-2
- Describes the services both the child and family will receive
- Should be developed within 45 days of referral and reviewed at 6-month intervals every year thereafter
Components of IEP
- students level performance
- measurable short term and long term goals
- special ed and related services
- explanation of time not spend in gen. ed classroom
- Assessment participations/ accommodations
- Transition plan implemented by age 16
Content standards?
Define the knowledge, skills and understanding that all students should attain in academic subjects.
Performance standards?
Define the level of achievement that students should meet in order to demonstrate proficiency in a subject
Standards-based reform
- establishes content and performance standards
- develops and implements a general curriculum based on content standards
- Assesses students progress in meeting the general curriculum’s performance standards.
Accommodations in assessment
- changes in presentation
- changes in responding
- changes in timing
- changes in setting
Universal Design for Learning
- makes learning accessible to all students
- can happen on a state, national or classroom level
- a designed curriculum that accommodates to the needs and learning levels of students
Universal design of the curriculum
differentiation between what is being presented and what level each student is expected to perform at
Universal design of instruction
- how to teach the lesson to accommodate all students
- adding flexibility into the classroom (augmentation and adaptation)