Meeting the Needs of Students with Disabilities

True or False? Inclusive scheduling creates a master schedule aligned with in-class service delivery models

• true

• false

• true with conditions

• only for English Language Learners

True or False? General and special education staff collaborate to provide instruction, assessment, behavioral, and learning supports that benefit students with and without disabilities

• False

• True

• True with modifications

• Only at Title 1 schools

Limit the number of students with disabilities in collaborative (co taught) class to ...

• can be 100% of the class

• 1/2 of the class

• 1/3 of the class

• 1/2 students with IEPs and 1/2 English Language Learners

Students with IEPs are required to have a Resource Class. (including Strategies, Support or Personal Life Skills)

• If the parents demand it

• If the IEP specifies this particular service delivery

• If the general education teacher and special education teacher agree that it will be beneficial

• If the student needs more help with homework and assignments

The Consultation instructional delivery model...

• includes collaboration between general education teachers, instructional assistants, special education teachers, and others who work with the student

• should not be considered for students with a certain IQ

• is not effective

• is only for students with a 504 plan

Each teacher teaches the content to one group and subsequently repeats the instruction for the other group. If appropriate, a third group could give students an opportunity to work independently

• Station teaching

• parallel teaching

• team teaching

• one teach, one assist

The teachers are both teaching the same information, but they do so to a divided class group. This type of teaching also may be used to vary learning experiences, for example, by providing manipulatives to one group but not the other or by having the groups read about the same topic but at different levels of difficulty

• station teaching

• parallel teaching

• alternative teaching

• team teaching

One teacher takes responsibility for the large group while the other works with a smaller group. These smaller groups could be used for remediation, pre-teaching, to help students who have been absent catch up on key instruction, assessment, and so on...

• station teaching

• parallel teaching

• alternative teaching

• team teaching

Both teachers share delivery of the same instruction to a whole student group. Some teachers refer to this as having “one brain in two bodies.” Others call it “tag team teaching

• station teaching

• parallel teaching

• alternative teaching

• team teaching

Which of the following are high leverage instructional practices?

• Adapting curriculum tasks and materials for specific learning goals

• Systematically designing instruction toward a specific learning goal

• Providing scaffolded supports

• All of the above