The alphabetic principle refers to:
a. understanding phoneme position in a word
b. understanding the sequence of letters in written words represents the sequence of
sounds in spoken words
c. understanding word order and context to support the word meaning
d. understanding the guidelines for teaching sight words
To prepare for planned conferences with parents, teachers should:
a. Go to the meeting with an open mind and without preconceived topics to discuss.
b. Suggest to parents that because the teacher knows the child best, she or he should
become their child’s tutor.
c. Meet with and learn the perspectives of other professionals who also work with the
student.
d. Come with a list of the areas the parents need to address in their home to help the
child.
What percentages of school-age children receive special services for communication
disorders?
a. 2 to 3 percent
b. 1 to 5 percent
c. 2. to 6 percent
d. 7 to 20 percent
To promote the literacy development of his students with traumatic brain injury,
Devin uses Velcro vests with new symbols added to represent actions, and feelings
dealing with the characters in a story. This is an example of:
a. positioning
b. accessing literacy
c. interactive stories
d. assistive technology
The family of a child with disabilities often has to adjust their life to meet the needs of
the child. According to Simpson (1988), the needs of the family fall into five broad
categories. What are the five categories of need outlined by Simpson?
a. Food, water, clothing, housing, and love
b. Information exchange, home-school newsletter, teacher-coordinated activities,
physical therapy service, consumer and advocacy information
c. Information exchange, consumer and advocacy information, home/community
program implementation, counseling, therapy, and consultation, parent-coordinated
service programs
d. Information exchange, teacher-coordinated activities, home/community program
implementation, physical therapy services, parent-coordinated service programs
In your classroom you are having students write often. While doing this if you are
giving students many opportunities to find personal meaning in what they write then
you are using the:
a. teacher-centered model
b. student-centered model
c. eclectic writing model
d. standards-driven model
You are designing your classroom to ensure you can monitor students and address
behavior quickly while at the same time create a learning community. Which of the
following is a guiding principle of a learning community?
a. Recognize that students are children or adolescents first.
b. Recognize that teacher’s needs come first.
c. Recognize that parents’ interests are most important.
d. Recognize that the administration has ultimate control of the classroom.
Tai Ling has noticed that several of her first graders have difficulty segmenting words
into their individual sounds and blending individual sounds to make words. What are
these skills referred to as?
a. temporal-sequential skills
b. inferential skills
c. syntactic awareness
d. phonemic awareness
Which is true about the Vocational Rehabilitation Act (P.L. 93-122)?
a. The Vocational Rehabilitation Act prevents any private organization that uses federal
funds or any local or state organization from discriminating against persons with
disabilities solely on the bases of the person’s disability.
b. P.L. 93-122 puts the person first and the use of the term “disability” second.
c. P.L. 93-122 adds assistive technology as a support service.
d. The Vocational Rehabilitation Act requires that transition services be included in the
individualized education programs of all students by at least age of 16.
Reciprocal causation refers to:
a. streamlined planning time
b. making meaning that is emphasized in text
c. working collaboratively to ensure reading and writing are genuine
d. a domino effect which adversely affects reading
Which of the following is true about positive feedback?
a. Too much positive feedback can sound fake and lose its effectiveness
b. Teachers tend to provide a lot of repetitive and nonspecific feedback
c. Positive reinforcement is more effective with older students than with younger
students
d. Positive feedback needs to be more specific and presented immediately after the
target behavior.
Aidan is a student who frequently hits other children, shouts out during lessons, and
pushes students out of his way. He exhibits examples of:
a. internalizing behavior
b. conflict resolution
c. externalizing behavior
d. anxiety-withdrawal
In your fifth-grade classroom you have a student who is constantly hitting, pushing, or
tripping other students. As his teacher you have considered referring him for evaluation
for an emotional or behavioral disorder. Which criteria that indicates an emotional or
behavioral disorder might this student be experiencing?
a. Behavior-age discrepancy
b. Inner suffering
c. Harm to others
d. Severity and duration of the behavior
Cassandra has difficulties with phonological awareness and word recognition. All of the
following will help improve her phonological awareness most directly EXCEPT:
a. phonemic pairs
b. making words
c. word wall
d. K-W-L strategy
What does the term prelingually deaf refer to?
a. children who lose their hearing after the age of five
b. children of deaf parents
c. when a hearing loss affects the social skills
d. being identified with hearing loss before learning language
Teaching a student with low vision how to get from home to school independently is an
example of a(n):
a. mobility skill
b. compensatory skill
c. orientation skill
d. modification
A student who is unable to see the blackboard at a distance of 20 feet has a specific
impairment known as:
a. cortical visual
b. visual field
c. visual acuity
d. hyperopia
When implementing interventions in an RTI model which treatment protocol uses the
same empirically validated treatments for all children with similar problems and does
not differ from child to child?
a. Standard treatment protocol method
b. Problem-solving model
c. Tertiary interventions
d. Both standard treatment and problem-solving methods
A major tenet of The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001 is to ensure that
a. Teachers follow a nationally-approved curriculum
b. Every child can read by third grade
c. Every state follow a federally approved budget
d. Teachers’ salaries are based on state’s dropout rate.
In order to estimate the level of difficulty of text for reading instruction, which is an
effective framework?
a. Lexile
b. student think aloud
c. whole language
d. teacher modeling/student demonstration (TMSD)
In your school you have continued to see an increase in “gang” activity. In fact, in your
classroom you have students you suspect of being in a gang. These students tend to
dress alike but they are not very structured. What type of gang do you suspect these
students are claiming membership?
a. Delinquent
b. Turf-based
c. Crime-oriented
d. Violent
Viewing hearing loss not as a disability but as a common characteristic among a
group of individuals is:
a. a coping mechanism.
b. a strategy used by teachers to increase self-esteem..
c. a belief of members of the Deaf Culture.
d. one reason why students with hearing loss should be taught in public schools with
hearing peers.
Which of the following programs stresses direct instruction through a highly sequenced
format that provides immediate feedback to students?
a. Structural Arithmetic
b. Touch Math
c. Key Math and Practice
d. DISTAR Arithmetic Program
The most common form of amplification which increases sound in the environment:
a. are FM units
b. are hearing aids
c. is the use of interpreters
d. is the use of closed captioning
You have a student in your high school Algebra I classroom who has been receiving
special education services for several years. The student will be turning 16 years old
soon, and his IEP needs to be updated. In the 2004 amendments of IDEA (now IDEIA)
what will now need to be included as part of the IEP for this student?
a. Individualized Transition Plan
b. Individualized Educational Plan
c. Vocational Rehabilitation Plan
d. Individualized Family Service Plan
Laura, a general education first-grade teacher, will have a student with a developmental
disability in her classroom this year. When working with her special education
team-teacher about appropriate accommodations, related services, and family
participation, which of the following could assist their planning?
a. COACH
b. SLAM
c. GUIDE
d. FAST
Vaughn and Klingner (2007) note that over 30 years the field of learning disabilities has
had many challenges related to definition and identification. Which of the following is
one of those challenges?
a. Questionable procedures for determining learning disabilities that emphasized IQ
achievement discrepancy and processing disorders
b. Objectivity in student referral with heavy weighting from teachers’ and others’
perceptions
c. An identification process that provides too much information to guide instructional
decision making
d There were no real challenges facing children with learning disabilities
Teachers of English Language Learners (ELL) who are implementing RTI approached
must determine what two things about their ELL students?
a. How well they read in their primary language and in English
b. Instructional approaches that work well for the student in their primary language and
English
c. Students’ knowledge and skills in their primary language and understanding their
performance in their second language (English)
d. Students writing ability in their primary language and in English
As a teacher in an Emotional and Behavior Disorder Classroom you have found class
meetings to be very effective. Which if the following is the correct structure for running
a class meeting:
a. 10 minutes of compliments and appreciation, future plans, new problems, and follow
up on prior solutions.
b. Follow up on prior solutions, future plans, new problems, 10 minutes of compliments
and appreciations.
c. 10 minutes of compliments and appreciations, follow-up on prior solutions, new
problems, and future plans.
d. Future plans, 10 minutes of compliments and appreciations, follow-up on prior
solutions, and new problems.
Bobby is a first grader who has been working with the speech-language pathologist for
six months. Bobby tends to substitute, omit, or distort words in his speech. What type of
disorder is Bobby experiencing?
a. articulation disorder
b. fluency disorder
c. voice disorder
d. otitis media
The general and special education classroom is constantly changing. In your classroom
you have chosen to use __________________________ so that you can use your ELL
students’ cultural knowledge and experiences to help these students learn more
effectively.
Alexandra is a student with developmental disabilities in your general education class.
Create an activity that uses cooperative learning and explain how Alexandra can be
included as a valued member of her group.
In the world today, children are faced with many environmental issues that affect their
learning. Feeling safe and secure can be a daily struggle for them. Knowing this,
according to the statistics from The Children’s Defense Fund (2008): 1 out of 9 children
have families with no_________________________, 1 out of 13 live in
_____________; and between 1979 and 2005 more than 104,000 children were killed
by______________.
Describe the behaviors of a student with emotional and behavioral disorders.
What are some strategies the general education teacher can use with such students in
the classrooms as the elementary, middle, and high school levels?
In the space provided, develop a poster to use in teaching conflict resolution with
students. Explain how you would use the poster to instruct students on the use of
conflict resolution. Develop a reproducible form for students to use when resolving
conflicts that includes the suggested questions from the chapter and any others that you
feel would be appropriate.
Another approach to instruction that teachers may use with their students who
experience problems in math and to build their proficiency in mathematics is
instructional design principles. The design principles included would be
____________________, ____________________, ____________________,
____________________, and ____________________.
______________ are created to provide structure for acceptable and unacceptable
classroom behavior, and __________________ are the repercussions associated with
the appropriate behavior.
Why is self-advocacy an important goal for students? Describe several techniques that
teachers can use to help students accomplish this goal
In your classroom you have two students who have physical disabilities that limit their
use of speech. You have found __________________________ systems like a
communication board that will be effective tools to help your students.
_____________________ is essential to effective implementation of RTI because it
allows key stakeholders to determine the rate of growth students are making and
determine whether additional intervention is needed.
The _____________ strategy was created to help students who have trouble completing
assignments. The strategy is used with students with learning disabilities to provide
structure for completing assignments.
Bilingual education uses different approaches to help ELL students learn English. If the
ELL student is instructed initially in his or her native language and later transfer to
instruction in English he or she is using the
_____________________________________________.
In chapter 3, Friend and Cook (2007) and Hudson and Glomb (1997) discuss the five
steps involved in peer collaboration. List the five steps of peer collaboration with a brief
description of each step.
Describe the silent or nonverbal period and how it relates to second language
acquisition.
If the students in your classroom are influenced by the core culture then we refer to it as
the _________________. If the students are influenced by their home or regional
cultural then we refer to it as the _____________________________.