After creating a draft it is important for students to make needed revisions and edits to
their work. This may not be something the students see the need to do with their written
work. What are the purposes of revision and editing? Describe some of the difficulties
students with disabilities may have during revision and editing and include at least two
strategies teachers can use to help students effectively move through this step.
In your classroom you have a student who is totally blind. In order to read the student
uses _______________ that is a system of embossed raised dots that the student can
read with the tips of his fingers.
You are teaching high school and there is a student in your class who over the last
few months has been showing severe changes in her behavior. The student will
sometimes seem as if she is hallucinating and is having delusions. This student may be
in the early stages of __________________________.
What can classroom teachers do to successfully teach students who have ADHD?
Describe three teacher characteristics that assist teachers in working successfully with
students who have ADHD.
Over the years and through much research there are now several instructional practices
where students with SLD have shown academic success. Three of these practices are:
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
Why have traditional math curricula not worked very well for students with learning
problems? What modifications can teachers make to assist students with learning
problems with each of these difficulties with math curricula?
Discuss assignment, homework, and test adaptations to assist students with learning
problems to succeed in the classroom. Discuss your point of view on making
adaptations for students with special needs who are in the regular classroom. Should
these students receive special treatment? Why?
In your classroom you have a student who has trouble with maintaining or
initiating eye contact with you or his peers and has not been able to establish any peer
relationships, and it is now four weeks into the school year. The child may have an
____________________________ or ASD.
List three difficulties in typical content area classes that pose problems for students.
Provide a strategy that teachers in the content areas can use to assist students with each
of the difficulties you listed.
John Ogber, an anthropologist, who has studied cultural boundaries through extensive
research classifies cultural groups as: ______________________,
___________________, and ______________.
Josephine is a student with developmental disabilities in your general education
classroom. Explain how you would use the McGill Action Planning System (MAPS) to
promote Josephine’s learning.
A skill every student should know is how to decode words. As the teacher of early
elementary students you spend considerable time helping students learn to decode
words. Knowing this, the second strategy called ____________________ has the
student using common spelling patterns to decode words by blending.
The authors discuss executive learning and refer to four guidelines related to strategy
instruction. The second guideline, ____________________, is where the use of SQ3R
and other strategies are taught in isolation to students.
In your classroom of 6th graders you have one young man who is consistently
getting into trouble by yelling out with inappropriate language and is defiant to
authority. You have tried several interventions with in the class and have now referred
him for evaluation. One evaluation that must be performed on this student is a
________________________________. This assessment the evaluator will collect data
so that the most effective positive support plan can be created and implemented for your
student.
As a teacher of students with autism you will spend a great deal of time working
on social skills. You will need to prepare the students for the many social situations they
may encounter. To prepare them there are four social skills that you should target for
instruction that include ____________________, ____________________,
_____________________, and ____________________.
Why is it important to create behavioral support plans for students? What are the key
elements that should be part of any behavioral support plan?
As the reading teacher in your school you have been asked to in-service other teachers
in your school about comprehension strategies. The four comprehension strategies you
would discuss that actively engage readers would be _____________________,
_____________________, ____________________, and _____________________.
Describe the steps you can take to establish a classroom climate that is respectful and
accepting of all students in your class. What are some of the things you can do to
optimize the physical environment in your classroom?
In 2007, AAIDD made some adaptation to the 2002 definition of intellectual
disabilities. The new definition includes five dimensions of a theoretical framework that
include ____________________, ____________________, ____________________,
____________________, and ____________________.
There are several strategies that you could use with peers in your classroom to help
improve reading instruction. One of these strategies is Classwide Peer Tutoring
(CWPT). First, explain how CWPT can be arranged in the classroom. Second, provide
three reasons you think CWPT is particularly helpful for students with reading
disabilities.