Larry, a sixth-grade geography teacher, always asks himself what activities and learning
experiences he will plan to help each student master the standard. This is known as
what component of DI?
a. concept diagram
b. ANSWER
c. process planning
d. instructional clarity
Which approach to multicultural education incorporates problem solving and a cultural
critique?
a. Additive approach
b. Transformation approach
c. Contributions approach
d. Social action approach
Carol often becomes hostile and tries to hurt others by calling them names. Her teacher
admits she often feels hurt by Carol’s constant insults. What type of mistaken goal does
Carol have?
a. Attention
b. Power
c. Revenge
d. Exhibition of inadequacy
The role of the interpreter is to:
a. find the best place for the student to sit in the classroom
b. facilitate communication
c. attend and participate in IEP meetings
d. teach the general education teacher how to use sign language
The planning activity that helps build relationships for improving the quality of life for
persons with severe disabilities and helps a person participate in an inclusive setting is
called:
a. The Planning Pyramid
b. The McGill Action Planning System
c. Brigance Planner for Essential Skills
d. Life-Space Planning
When teaching facts and mathematics computations, it will be important for you to
monitor the progress of students with learning problems because they are less likely to
learn these skills incidentally. In other words, they have difficulty learning these skills:
a. through lectures
b. through the process of problem solving
c. by reading the text
d. with a buddy
In order to be better informed about students with emotional and behavioral disorders
you as the general education teacher decided to do some research. In your research you
found that the prevalence of student with emotional and behavioral disorders range
from:
a. 2% to 4%
b. 5% to 7%
c. 6% to 10%
d. 12% to 14%
The first step in managing problem behavior is to:
a. implement an intervention
b. understand why the behaviors are occurring
c. assign a consequence for the behavior
d. ignore the behavior until it affects other children in the room
Which of the following is a DI strategy that is helpful when planning long-term
assignments and research projects and requires a teacher to negotiate with students
about their goals?
a. AOK
b. semantic maps
c. learning contract
d. discussion web
Which of the following is a metacognitive strategy used to model and learn where
teachers verbalize how they think through problems?
a. graphic organizers
b. mnemonics
c. emphasis cues
d. think alouds
Prior knowledge is an important influence on:
a. the alphabet principle
b. comprehension and comprehension monitoring
c. reciprocal causation
d. decoding strategies
This type of classroom placement can occur for a student with disabilities who will
receive services from a special education teacher, who will address the goals and
objectives from their IEP, in the general education setting with his or her same age
peers instead of a separate setting for students with disabilities.
a. Mainstreaming setting
b. Resource room setting
c. Separate facility setting
d. Inclusive setting
Identify the response that is an example of an open question.
a. How do you explain the way your son has improved this year?
b. Do you think your son has improved this year?
c. Have you asked other family members about your son’s behavior when you are not
around?
d. In what subject area do you think your child has made the most improvement?
This model is used for screening and the data source helps facilitate identifying students
who need special education service.
a. RTI
b. LRE
c. IEP
d. MFE
Mark yells and throws temper tantrums, his classmates and teacher go on with the
lesson as if nothing were happening. Which strategy are they using to help Mark
improve his behavior?
a. Extinction
b. Punishment
c. Time out
d. FAST
The number of students identified with learning disabilities has increased substantially
during the last two decades. Why does the percentage of students with learning
disabilities continue to increase?
a. more effective assessment tools have been developed
b. learning disabilities are viewed as one of the disabilities that are more socially
accepted and have less negative connotations
c. with more research in the field, school psychologists have a better understanding of
the disability and are identifying students who previously would have been overlooked
d. the learning disabilities category has become a dumping ground
Although Isabel knows many of her students with reading difficulties are having
problems understanding their world history text, she doesn”t specifically know what
areas are giving them the most trouble. What can Isabel use to learn about what makes
her students uncomfortable when reading?
a. FLIP chart strategy
b. Fry’s readability chart
c. explication strategy
d. organizational design evaluation
Approximately what percent of students in the United States receive special education
services?
a. 6%
b. 10%
c. 13%
d. 22%
Victor, a seventh grader from Ecuador, has experienced a dramatic increase in
vocabulary recognition, but idioms and more advanced vocabulary remain difficult. He
often knows what he wants to say, but struggles for the acceptable words. He frequently
makes mistakes in grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation. In which of the stages of
second language development is Victor functioning?
a. Mid-intermediate
b. High-advanced
c. Mid-beginning
d. High-beginning
According to Heward (2009), what are two forces that have contributed to the increased
engagement of parents and other family members of children with disabilities?
a. Increased parent advocacy and research indicating family involvement has a positive
impact on student academic and social outcomes.
b. Increased parent advocacy and the over-representation of minorities in special
education classrooms.
c. The over-representation of minorities in special education classrooms and research
indicating family involvement has a positive impact on student academic and social
outcomes.
d. Research indicating family involvement has a positive impact on student academic
and social outcomes and the lack of parent involvement in high school.
Which of the strategy instruction guidelines would you be addressing with your
students if you were presenting content and strategies concurrently?
a. guideline 1
b. guideline 2
c. guideline 3
d. guideline 4
Jack, an easily distracted second-grader, is continually getting out of his seat. He only
remains seated while drawing. Which of the following techniques can Jack’s teacher use
to increase his in-seat behavior?
a. Premack principle
b. Time out
c. Punishment
d. Extinction
What is the name of the philosophy of instructing students where instruction is based on
the individual needs of the students comes from a variety of research practices and at
the secondary level it can occur in general and special education settings?
a. differentiated instruction
b. response to intervention
c. direct instruction
d. special education
Victoria is only six years old but has difficulty participating in make-believe play.
Based on the information in the text, it is possible she may have:
a. Autism
b. Rett Syndrome
c. Childhood Disintegrative Disorder
d. Asperger Syndrome
The type of assessment used to determine the skills a student needs to complete an
activity or task is known as:
a. functional
b. environmental
c. intellectual
d. educational
The use of differentiated instruction requires that the teachers be flexible in the way
they group their students. If the teachers choose to group their students who have
similar achievement levels, they would be using:
a. homogeneous grouping
b. heterogeneous grouping
c. multiple grouping
d. cooperative learning groups
Research has indicated that students with learning disabilities are less effective at
employing memory strategies. Therefore, it is not only important to teach students
memory strategies, but also
a. how to ask questions
b. how to go back to the text and reread the information
c. to take clear and concise notes
d. to cue students to use the memory strategies they have learned
When the teacher of students with autism are working on initiating conversations with
others, responding and initiations, maintaining conversations, and responding to
criticism he or she is working on:
a. adaptive skills
b. motor skills
c. quantitative skills
d. social skills
Who was the pioneer who coined the term ‘specific learning disabilities” and in what
year did this occur?
a. Maria Montessori; 1997
b. Lloyd Dunn; 1990
c. Burton Blatt; 1975
d. Samuel Kirk; 1963
In their study of adolescents who were either blind, with low vision, or sighted,
Wolfe and Sacks found that:
a. Students with low vision tend to earn the lowest grades.
b. Blind students tend to earn the lowest grades.
c. Sighted and low vision students tend to earn the highest grades.
d. Sighted students tend to earn the lowest grades.
You have found, after working with your students, that there are several language
differences in some of the students in your classroom. Some of the students have
___________________________ as their language varies depending on the place they
live, and others have __________________ because of the social group they interact
with on a daily basis.
In your classroom you have a few students who find it difficult to follow classroom
rules. To change this behavior you first used ______________ by removing the students
from the classroom situation. Second, you used ______________ where the student lost
an object or item that he or she enjoyed.
Visual impairments impact all aspects of a child’s development. Discuss how a visual
impairment affects a child’s motor, social, and academic development. Give two
modifications you would use in your classroom to assist in the development of each of
these areas.
This type of intervention has influenced changes in the preferral process and provides
validated research-based interventions to students in their instructional area(s) of need.
This process is called _______________________________________________.
Epilepsy is the most common of the neurological impairments you will find in
school-age children. In fact, during your career you will encounter several children who
experience this impairment. Knowing this identify and define the two major types of
seizures you may see your future students experience. Provide an example of each in
your response.
What are positive behavioral supports? What types of positive behavioral support do
you think would be effective in a general education classroom to support students with
disabilities?
Several general strategies found to be effective when teaching students with learning
disabilities were presented In This Chapter. Choose five, describe each, and give
specific examples of how they might be used in the classroom.
In your classroom you have decided to use peer collaboration as a means to help those
students who are struggling with reading and math content by using their peers. What
are the five steps you would follow to institute the peer collaboration program?
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
Some strategies for helping students develop phonological awareness and word
recognition include: Phonemic Pairs, Making Words, Sight Words, Word Wall, and
SWAP. Choose three strategies and explain how you would use them to help students
with difficulties in phonological awareness and word recognition. Describe the type of
student whom you would use each strategy.
Describe five guidelines for making input more comprehensible for second language
learners. Of these, select three strategies and discuss how you would use these
guidelines to teach in a content area classroom.
Mike, a student with ADHD, is not doing his homework. His mother calls and tells you
she’s at a loss for what to do. Describe two modifications you would make to assist
Mike with his homework.
When describing how each visual impairment in unique you shared with your class that
_______________ refers to a small minority of people who are unable to see anything,
including objects or light sources and _________________ are those people with visual
acuity in the range 20/70 to 20/200 who have difficulty with vision even with corrective
lenses.
Describe Bos and Vaughn’s (1994) five concepts that describe reading as a process. For
each of the five concepts, explain some of the difficulties a students with reading
problems may have in the classroom.
You have a student(s) in your classroom that continually has trouble completing their
class assignments on time. You say to them “If the assignment is not completed by the
end of class then you will lose recess” and then the students(s) completes the
assignment. You have just used____________________________.
Describe the differences between pragmatics and metalinguistics and how each is
affected by development.
Alex is a student in your class. He is frequently shouting out and often hits other
students. The other students so not like to work with Alex and some are afraid of him.
As the teacher in this classroom discuss way that you would target and change Alex’s
behaviors.