GACE Practice Flashcards
What does EHA stand for?
Education for All Handicapped Children Act
When was EHA enacted?
1975
What does IDEA stand for?
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
When was IDEA enacted?
1990
What does IDEIA stand for
Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act
When was IDEIA enacted?
2004
What part of IDEA serves toddlers and infants?
Part C
Zero Reject-Child Find
The principle that requires states and local education agencies to have policies in place to identify, evaluate, and locate children who are suspected of having a developmental delay, or are at risk for developing a developmental delay.
What does NDE stand for?
Nondiscriminatory Identification and Evaluation?
What is NDE?
The principle that requires schools to use assessments that are not biased on the basis of race, culture, and/or language, as requires the school to use multiple methods of testing.
What does FAPE stand for?
Free and Appropriate Public Education
What is FAPE?
The principle that requires schools to provide a free and appropriate public education to all children with disabilities, regardless of the severity of the disability.
What does LRE stand for?
Least Restrictive Environment
What is LRE?
The principle that students with disabilities be taught in the least restrictive environment to the maximum extent appropriate. This principle requires justification in the IEP for the level of restrictions in a student’s education.
What are Procedural Safeguards?
The principle that protects the rights of the parents, such as access to records, consent for initial evaluations and subsequent evaluations, due process, and the right to independent education evaluations (potentially at public expense).
What is Parental Participation?
The principle that ensures that schools must collaborate with parents and students when creating an individualized education plan.
What 14 categories of disability are recognized by IDEA?
- Developmental Delay
- Autism
- Deaf-Blindness
- Deafness
- Emotional Disturbance
- Hearing Impairment
- Intellectual Disability
- Multiple Disabilities
- Orthopedic Impairment
- Other Health Impairment
- Specific Learning Disability
- Speech or Language Impairment
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Visual Impairment
What are the components of an IEP?
- Present levels of Academic and Functional Performance
- Measurable and Annual Goals
- How progress will be monitored and when it will be reported
4.Special education and related services/supplementary aids and services/program modifications - Related Services
- Extent of non participation in the general education curriculum
- Testing accommodations or changes
- Documentation of delivery of services
9.Transition services
What does IFSP stand for?
Individualized Family Service Plan
What is an IFSP?
The legal document that serves the child and the family and includes
-Information about the child’s current level of development
-Information about the family’s resources and concerns
- A statement of expected results and outcomes
- A list of services that will be provided, as well as their start date, the length, duration, frequency, intensity, and method
- A statement that services will be provided in the child’s natural environment to the fullest extent possible
-Transition services
-A summary of documented medical services
- Contact for the Service Coordinator and other team members
What are the main principles of IDEA?
- Zero Reject-Child find
- Nondiscriminatory Identification and Evaluation
- Free Appropriate Public Education
- Least Restrictive Environment
- Procedural Safeguards
- Parental Participation
What are Cooperative Clusters?
Small group clustering of students working together(?)
What is the one teaching, one observing model?
A co-teaching strategy during which one teacher provides instruction while the other observes students for evidence of learning.
What is the one teaching, one assisting model?
A co-teaching strategy where one teacher provides instruction while the other assists individual students as needed.
What is the parallel teaching model?
A co-teaching strategy where the class is divided into two groups and each teacher teaches the same information at the same time
What is the station teaching model?
A co-teaching strategy where each teacher teaches a specific part of the content to groups of students as the students rotate between stations
What is the alternative teaching model?
A co-teaching strategy where one teacher teaches a majority of the student and the other teacher leads a smaller group based on needs.
What is the team teaching model?
A co-teaching strategy where both teachers are directly instructing students at the same time.
What is the “Make a 10” strategy?
A strategy that involves breaking up one of the numbers and adding a portion of it to the other number making it a ten, simplifying the problem.
What is the “skip counting” strategy?
The strategy where you count by a specific number, such as three, to help simplify multiplication.
What is the “counting backward” strategy?
A strategy that is used for teaching subtraction by starting at the number your subtracting from, then counting backward by the number your subtracting by.
What is the “Front-End Addition” strategy?
It is the strategy that focuses on the digits to the left, similar to rounding, and is best used with addition.
What is differentiated instruction?
When the delivery of content is adjusted to meet individual needs.
What is echolalia?
Repetition of speech, sometimes without meaning
What is the functional approach?
An instructional approach that emphasizes life-skills that need to be generalized for use outside of school.
What is a formal assessment?
An assessment that measures a student’s overall performance in comparison to the performance of other students in the same age range or grade level, sometimes referred to as “standardized assessment”.
What is an informal assessment?
An assessment that is created by teachers or curriculum generated
that measures the individuals performance in a content area.
