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504 Plan

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From Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, a 504 Plan outlines how a child’s specific needs are met with accommodations, modifications, and other services.

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Academic English

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English for academic purposes, usually in a higher education setting, that is appropriate for study. English for a specific purpose.

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Language abilities

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These include listening, speaking, reading, writing, and the various sub-components of each.

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Accommodation

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These change how a student learns the material, but not the material being learned.

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Adaptation

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Curricular adaptations allow students with disabilities to participate in inclusive environments by compensating for learners’ weaknesses.

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Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

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Inability to sit and/or focus for age appropriate amounts of time. Under IDEA, typically “other health impairment” or “specific learning disability”.

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Assessment type

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Broad categories: formative, interim, and summative.

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Asthma

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A Chronic respiratory disease characterized by sudden recurring attacks of labored breathing, chest constriction, and coughing. “Health Impaired” under IDEA.

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CalTPA

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California Teaching Performance Assessment, and it consists of 4 tasks: 1) Subject Specific Pedagogy, 2) Designing Instruction, 3) Assessing Learning, 4) Culminating Teaching Experience.

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Candidate

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The educator applying for an initial California teaching credential.

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Case study

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An observational data collection technique of an individual or entity that include face-to-face interviews, paper and pencil tests, etc.

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California English Language Development Test (CELDT)

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K-12 grade test of students whose home language is not English required by law to determine English language proficiency (ELP).

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Comprehensible input

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In explicit direct instruction: modified speech, clear academic tasks, multi-modality.

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Content standards

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General term, in California we have English Language Arts (ELA) CCSS and Mathematics CCSS.

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Culture

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The characteristics of a particular group of people; everything from language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music, and arts,

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Developmental needs

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Basic needs required for healthy development, they include: physical activity, structure and clear limits, competency and achievement, creative expression, and self-definition.

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Diagnostic

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A way of measuring, identifying, or characterizing something.

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Domain

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Areas the TPA will examine: Making subject matter comprehensible, assessing learning, engaging and supporting learning, planning and designing learning experiences, creating and maintaining effective environments, developing as a professional.

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English learner

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Students who do not speak English at home or who are still not English proficient.

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English Language Development (ELD) standards

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Define the progression of language acquisition thru 3 stages of proficiency: Emerging, Expanding, and Bridging.

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Feedback strategies

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Strategies include: being as specific as possible, the sooner the better, address learner’s advancement towards goal, be clear, involve learners in the process.

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Focus student

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For the TPA tasks, an English learner, and a student with special needs.

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Formal assessment

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These have data which support the conclusions made from the test, typically have scores such as (percentiles, stanines, or standard scores).

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Formative assessment

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Designed to monitor student learning to provide teachers ongoing feedback to improve instruction and provide students with improved learning.

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Frameworks
"Models of instruction" designed to support teachers in the implementation of standards.
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Gifted and Talented Education (GATE)
Program to develop unique education opportunities for high-achieving and underachieving pupils. Categories include: intellectual, creative, specific academic, or leadership ability.
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General education
The typical everyday schooling of K-12 education.
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Holistic
In education, the idea that people find identity, meaning, and purpose in life through connections to the community and natural world.
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Individuals with Disability Education Act (IDEA)
A four-part (A-D) piece of legislation that hopes to ensure students with a disability are provided with Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) that is tailored to their needs.
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Implementation
The realization of an application, or execution of a plan, idea, model, design, specification, standard, algorithm, or policy.
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Individualized Education Program (IEP)
IDEA requires that public schools create the IEP for every child receiving special education services.
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Induction
Programs that will lead you to a clear credential. It will be entered after earning the preliminary credential.
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Informal assessment
These assessments are content and performance driven. They don't use standardized tools to measure or evaluate. (Projects, experiments, and presentations.)
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Instructional resources
Resources available for the lesson: items such as passages from science textbooks, periodicals, and books, computers, dictionaries.
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Instructional strategies
are what the teacher does during instruction. (Need to be age appropriate, address developmental needs, help students make progress towards goals.)
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Learning environment
The climate you create as an educator for students to learn.
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Learning experience
Elements include: grade, content area, subject matter, time allotted.
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Learning goals
What you expect students to learn for a specific lesson.
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Lesson
What and how something is to be taught and evaluated.
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Linguistic background
The non-English background of the student that impacts their ability to function in English.
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Purpose
The reason why something is done or used.
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Rationale
The reason or explanation for something.
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Record of Evidence (ROE)
Description and documentation of how you know that students are learning. Scored within each of the performance dimensions.
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Reflection
A thought occurring in consideration or meditation; careful consideration. (What a good teacher does to evaluate their lesson, class, selves).
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Resource Specialist Program (RSP)
A program to help children who qualify for special education services, designed to support students and give them strategies to help them in their education.
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Rubric
A scoring guide used to evaluate the quality of students' constructed responses. May contain evaluative criteria, quality definitions, and a scoring strategy.
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Special education
Instruction that is more urgent, more intensive, more relentless, more precisely delivered, more highly structured and direct, and more carefully monitored.
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Specially designed content instruction
Instruction that is organized and planned to adapt content, methodology, or delivery of content for RTI, 504, IEP students.
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Specific learning disabilities (or disorders)
Examples include: dyslexia, dyscalculia, emotional/behavioral difficulty, cognition and learning, physical, or ASD.
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Specific learning need
Can be specific to individual or group, but the need is something required to achieve learning objective. It can be (often is) tied to their learning disability.
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Speech and language disorders
Variety of congenital, developmental, and acquired disorders that affect speech and language abilities.
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Student activities
Designed to assess and/or move students toward learning goal, can include leadership, social responsibility, citizenship, volunteerism, and employment.
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Student grouping
How you choose to assemble the students of a given class or grade (or even how the school creates classes).
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Summative assessment
Where the focus is on the outcome of a program, Scriven claims all assessment can be summative, only some are formative.
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Teaching Performance Expectation (TPE)
13 different expectations of CA educators: Making subject matter comprehensible to students, assessing student learning, planning instruction and designing learning experiences, etc.
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Unit
A coherent chunk of work, typically across days or weeks.
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Universal Design for Learning
An educational framework that guides the development of flexible learning environments to accommodate individual learning differences.
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BICS
Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills
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CALPS
Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency
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Cooperative groupings
3 main types: informal learning (ad-hoc), formal learning (more sustained), and base groups (long-term and stable).
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Phonology
Knowledge of the structural rules governing sounds. (Bonus: the systematic and coordinated use of rules governing sounds, including intonation, pitch, and juncture).
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Morphology
Knowledge of the structural rules governing word forms. (Bonus: word formation, including prefixes, suffixes, and root words - these basic units of meaning are called morphemes).
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Syntax
Knowledge of the structural rules governing word orders.
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Phenome
One of the units of sound that distinguishes one word from another. (Bonus: a finite set of sounds that make a difference for meaning; kill - kiss).
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Pragmatics
The social conventions of language use, including non-verbal cues.
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Discourse
Stretches of language beyond the sentence level, it includes both oral and written language.

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