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Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 2hrs 5mins
Who is a specialist who works directly with students who may or may not be identified as needing special education services?
Admission, Review, & Dismissal Committee (ARD)
Educational Aide
Texas Essential Knowledge & Skills (TEKS)
Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)
What is the federal law passed in 1975 that requires public schools to provide free public education (FAPE) for special needs kids?
Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)
Individual Education Plan (IEP)
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
Educational Aide
What is it called to provide students with disabilities an appropriate evaluation, a decision-making process involving parent and student, due process, and individualized instruction?
Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)
Respond
Modifications
Texas Essential Knowledge & Skills (TEKS)
What is a written plan developed by the Admission, Review, and Dismissal (ARD) committee for meeting the specific educational needs of each individual child placed in special education including modifications and accommodations?
Individual Education Plan (IEP)
Admission, Review, & Dismissal (ARD)
Educational Aide
Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)
What is a committee composed of the parent, student, and school personnel who meet on a regular basis to make decisions in regard to admission, services, and dismissal from special education?
Individual Education Plan (IEP)
Texas Essential Knowledge & Skills (TEKS)
Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)
Admission, review, & Dismissal (ARD)
What is a legal term from the IDEA law that specifies that students with disabilities must be educated as close to the same environment as their nondisabled peers?
Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)
Modifications
Accommodations
Respond
What is a change in what the student is expected to learn that is different from the general education curriculum (TEKS)? Examples: instruction at a lower grade level or a decrease in number of standards the student is expected to learn. (Example: student responsible for 3 out of 10 math TEKS)
Modifications
Accommodations
Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)
Texas Essential Knowledge & Skills (TEKS)
What are alterations (adjustments or physical changes) in how a student with a disability is taught or tested? (Example: change in seating, use of calculator, or reading a test to a student)
Modifications
Accommodations
Least Restrictive Environment
Ecology
What does it mean to think through the possible actions to student's behavior and develop a plan to help the student change their behavior?
React
Respond
Experiment
Ecology
What is the study of how living things interact with each other and their environment?
Primary Source
Experiment
Ecology
Respond
What is one type of investigation that involves a testable question and research, a hypothesis and conclusion, multiple trials, variables, and a fair test?
Respond
Ecology
Primary Source
Experiment
What provides material, knowledge, and skills covered in a lesson? This is how the teacher knows what to teach.
Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)
Venn Diagram
Texas Essential Knowledge & Skills (TEKS)
Primary Source
What is a graphic organizer used to compare and contrast (show similarities and differences) two separate items?
Venn Diagram
Primary Source
Denominator
Thesaurus
What is a document or physical object which was written or created during the time under study? Examples: autobiography, journal, diary, newspaper, or artifact
Venn Diagram
Exponents
Inductive Reasoning
Primary Source
What is the bottom number in a fraction called? It tells how many equal parts (pieces) are in the whole.
Numerator
Denominator
Inductive Reasoning
Exponents
What is reasoning that is made from specific (details) to general (statement)? (from specific to general)
Deductive Reasoning
Inductive Reasoning
Primary Source
Thesaurus
What is reasoning in which a conclusion is reached from a general statement and supported by specific details? (from general to specific)
Deductive Reasoning
Inductive Reasoning
Primary Source
Exponents
What is a number denoting the power to be raised?
Exponents
Numerator
Denominator
Thesaurus
What is a reference book of synonyms and antonyms?
Inductive Reasoning
Primary Source
Thesaurus
Venn Diagram
What is a fraction whose numerator is larger than the denominator?
Proper Fraction
Improper Fraction
Numerator
Denominator
What is a number that is made up of a whole number and a proper fraction?
Denominator
Improper Fraction
Proper Fraction
Mixed Number
What is a fraction with a numerator smaller than the denominator?
Proper Fraction
Improper Fraction
Mixed Number
Exponents
What is the order in which an equation is worked out? Example: the mnemonic device Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally (Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiply, Divide, Add, Subtract)
Order of Operations (PEDMAS)
Inference
Thesaurus
Phonemic Awareness
What is a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and own experiences? (understand more than stated)
Phonemic Awareness
Thesaurus
Order of Operations (PEDMAS)
Inference
What is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the individual sounds, phonemes, in oral language?
Thesaurus
Phonemic Awareness
Order of Operations (PEDMAS)
Inference
