Question 1

Accommodation Strategies

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Methods used to support students with disabilities, including modifications to the environment, curriculum, instruction, or assessment.

Question 2

Balanced Literacy

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A teaching approach designed to help individual students learn how to process a variety of increasingly complex texts with understanding and fluency.

Question 3

Basal Reading Program

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A core reading program that includes a series of textbooks or digital products organized in progressive levels of difficulty.

Question 4

Constructivist Learning Theory

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The perspective that learners construct their own understanding of the world through experiences and reflection.

Question 5

Differentiated Instruction

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An approach to teaching that accommodates the varied background knowledge, readiness, language, preferences in learning, and interests of students.

Question 6

Direct Instruction

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A teaching method that is structured, sequenced, and led by teachers, and designed to teach specific skills.

Question 7

Dyscalculia

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A specific learning disability that affects a person's ability to understand numbers and learn math facts.

Question 8

Dysgraphia

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A learning disability that affects handwriting and fine motor skills.

Question 9

Dyslexia

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A specific learning disability in reading, often characterized by difficulties with accurate or fluent word recognition, decoding, and spelling.

Question 10

Formative Assessment

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Assessment processes used to monitor student learning during instruction and provide feedback to adjust teaching and learning activities.

Question 11

Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA)

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A process that identifies specific target behavior, the purpose of the behavior, and what factors maintain the behavior.

Question 12

Guided Reading

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An instructional approach that involves a teacher working with a small group of students who demonstrate similar reading behaviors and can read similar levels of texts.

Question 13

Inclusion

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The practice of educating all students, including those with severe and multiple disabilities, in regular classes and programs.

Question 14

Inquiry-Based Learning

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An active learning approach where students are encouraged to investigate a question or a problem.

Question 15

Instructional Scaffolding

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A process through which a teacher adds supports for students to enhance learning and aid in the mastery of tasks.

Question 16

Interdisciplinary Instruction

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Instruction that integrates content and skills from multiple subject areas.

Question 17

Kinesthetic Learning

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Learning style in which learning takes place by the student carrying out a physical activity, rather than listening to a lecture or watching a demonstration.

Question 18

Learning Disability

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A neurological disorder that causes difficulties in learning that cannot be attributed to poor intelligence, poor motivation, or inadequate teaching.

Question 19

Lexile Measures

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A measure of the complexity of a text and an individual's reading ability.

Question 20

Metacognition

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The awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes.

Question 21

Multicultural Education

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An approach to teaching and learning that is based on democratic values and beliefs and that fosters cultural pluralism.

Question 22

Norm-Referenced Test

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A type of test that assesses a student's academic performance against the performance of other students.

Question 23

Phonemic Awareness

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The understanding that spoken words are made up of individual sounds called phonemes.

Question 24

Phonological Awareness

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A broad concept that includes phonemic awareness as well as awareness of things like words, rhyme, syllables and onsets and rimes.

Question 25

Project-Based Learning

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A teaching method that engages students in learning essential knowledge and life-enhancing skills through an extended, student-influenced inquiry process structured around complex, authentic questions and carefully designed products and tasks.

Question 26

Response to Intervention (RTI)

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A multi-tiered approach to the early identification and support of students with learning and behavior needs.

Question 27

Rubric

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A tool used to assess students' work or performance, often listing specific criteria and offering a rating scale for each.

Question 28

Scaffolding

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Providing support to enhance learning and aid in the mastery of tasks.

Question 29

Socioeconomic Status (SES)

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The social standing or class of an individual or family, often measured as a combination of education, income and occupation.

Question 30

Standards-Based Education

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An approach to teaching where instruction and learning are focused on meeting pre-established academic standards.

Question 31

Summative Assessment

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Evaluations used to determine student growth after instruction and are generally given at the end of a course or unit.

Question 32

Syntax

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The set of rules, principles, and processes that govern the structure of sentences in a particular language.

Question 33

Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

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A framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn.

Question 34

Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)

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The difference between what a learner can do without help and what he or she can do with help under adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers.

Question 35

Behaviorist Learning Theory

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Learning theory based on the idea that all behaviors are acquired through conditioning.

Question 36

Criterion-Referenced Test

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A style of test which uses test scores to generate a statement about the behavior that can be expected of a person with that score.

Question 37

Culturally Responsive Teaching

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An educational approach that recognizes the importance of including students' cultural references in all aspects of learning.

Question 38

Decoding

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The ability to apply your knowledge of letter-sound relationships to correctly pronounce written words.

Question 39

Diagnostic Assessment

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A form of pre-assessment where teachers can evaluate students' strengths, weaknesses, knowledge, and skills prior to instruction.

Question 40

Educational Equity

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The principle of ensuring that every student has access to the resources they need to succeed, including a safe learning environment, quality teachers, rigorous curriculum, and supportive services.

Question 41

Fluid Intelligence

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The ability to think and reason abstractly and solve problems, independent of acquired knowledge.

Question 42

Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences

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Theory suggesting that individuals have different kinds of "intelligences," including linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalistic, and existential.

Question 43

Inquiry-based Instruction

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A teaching method that casts the teacher as a supportive figure who provides guidance and support for students throughout their learning process.

Question 44

Normative Culture

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The shared expectations and rules that guide behavior of people within social groups.

Question 45

Psychosocial Development Theory

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Erik Erikson's theory that human development is governed by a sequence of stages that depend on genetic factors.

Question 46

Semantics

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The study of meaning in language.

Question 47

Social Constructivism

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The theory that social interaction leads to continuous step-by-step changes in a child's thought processes.

Question 48

Visual Learning

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A style of learning where information is associated with images or graphics.

Question 49

Whole Language Approach

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A method of teaching reading that relies on the context of the whole text to guess the meaning of words.

Question 50

Zone of Actual Development (ZAD)

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The range of tasks that a person can perform independently without help from others.

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