WorksheetsCheck Your Understanding: Module 5, Section 2
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 16mins
A role/responsibility of the paraprofessional
Communicating student observations to the classroom teacher.
Work with small groups of students
Give reminders to students to stay on task.
Provide gentle reminders to students about classroom expectations of behavior
Administer testing accommodations as provided by the teacher.
Accompanying students to the nurse for their medication
Host parent meetings without the classroom teacher.
Create tests
Plan and develop lessons.
Cover a teacher's assigned duty
Not a role/responsibility of the paraprofessional
Grade papers for the classroom teacher
Give reminders to students to stay on task
Work with small groups of students
Make copies for the classroom teacher
Communication sent home on a weekly/monthly basis to all families
Communication log
Tone
Newsletter
BCC
A document that tracks communication with families and the frequency
Communication Log
Tone
Parent/Guardian survey
Newsletter
A way to gather preferred communication method of parents/guardians
Tone
Newsletter
BCC
Parent/Guardian survey
The attitude your words create in written form
(a)
Examples of ACCOMMODATIONS
Simplifying the language of test questions.
Reducing the number of items.
Posting visual reminders of tasks.
The use of a calculator.
Reducing the number of answer choices in a question.
Adjusting the complexity of tasks
Preferential seating.
Extended time or breaks
Examples of MODIFICATIONS.
large print materials
The use of assistive technology
Reducing the number of learning goals in a unit.
Adjusting the rigor of the rubric.
Shorten or adapt reading and writing assignments, use of curriculum, pre-teaching/pre-tutoring of vocabulary.
Traumatic Brain Injury
Other Health Impaired
Hearing Impairment
Intellectual Disability
Some students may require an adaptation to the curriculum. This can be done by focusing on one learning goal vs. several or reducing the amount of information to be learned.
Intellectual Disability
Hearing Impairment
Other Health Impaired
Traumatic Brain Injury
Utilize smaller class sizes, high interest curriculum, fewer learning objectives, decrease in amount of work to be completed.
Intellectual Disability
Other Health Impaired
Traumatic Brain Injury
Hearing Impairment
Change skill or task to be learned, adaptive physical education, modified graduation requirements, change to grading process (pass/ no pass).
Hearing Impairment
Other Health Impaired
Intellectual Disability
Traumatic Brain Injury
School district's responsibility to identify and evaluate students who may need special education services at no charge to families
Child Find
IEP (Individual Education Plan)
FAPE (Free and Public Education)
BIP (Behavior Intervention Plan)
An educational learning plan that is designed to meet the specific needs of an individual whose disabilities impact their academic success.
Accommodation
IEP (Individual Education Plan)
BIP (Behavior Intervention Plan)
504
Federal law that ensures free appropriate public education for any child that has a disability
LRE (Least Restrictive Environment)
ADA (American Disabilities Act)
FAPE (Free and Public Education)
Modification
A legally binding document the is usually part of an IEP that focuses on positive behavior for a student
IEP (Individual Education Plan)
504
BIP (Behavior Intervention Plan)
Child Find
Removing learning barriers in the classroom to provide equal access to learning
FBA (Functional Behavior Plan)
ADA (American Disabilities Act)
LRE (Least Restrictive Environment)
Accomodation
An environment that allows students with disabilities the opportunity to learn alongside their peers as much as possible
FBA (Functional Behavior Plan)
IDEA
ADA (American Disabilities Act)
LRE (Least Restrictive Environment)
Federal civil rights law that protects people with disabilities from discrimination in multiple settings (schools, work place, etc.)
ADA (American Disabilities Act)
FBA (Functional Behavior Plan)
LRE (Least Restrictive Environment)
IEP (Individual Education Plan)
Federal law that requires each state to ensure that FAPE is available to all eligible children with disabilities. Birth to 21.
ADA (American Disabilities Act)
504
IDEA
FBA (Functional Behavior Plan)
An assessment that identifies functions of student behaviors
FAPE (Free and Public Education)
Modification
FBA (Functional Behavior Plan)
LRE (Least Restrictive Environment)
A plan that outlines how a school, even college, will support a student with a disability
(a)
(a) is a law passed by the U.S. Congress to protect the privacy of students and parents.
Steps a teacher should take before, during, and after parent-teacher conferences. Place them in their correct order. Place the first 3 in order.
1. Communicate when and where conferences will take place.
2. Prepare an easy sign-up method.
3. Prepare student evidence/folders to share with parents/guardians
1. Prepare an easy sign-up method.
2. Communicate when and where conferences will take place.
3. Prepare student evidence/folders to share with parents/guardians
Steps a teacher should take before, during, and after parent-teacher conferences. Place the next 3 in their correct order.
1. Clean your space and set up a location for families to sit.
2. Establish a purpose of the conference with parents/guardians.
3. Discuss areas of strength and growth (compliment sandwiches)
1. Discuss areas of strength and growth (compliment sandwiches)
2. Clean your space and set up a location for families to sit.
3. Establish a purpose of the conference with parents/guardians
Steps a teacher should take before, during, and after parent-teacher conferences. Place the last 2 in their correct order.
1. Create an action plan with parents/guardians and student (if needed).
2. Discuss next steps and how both parties will communicate moving forward
1. Discuss next steps and how both parties will communicate moving forward.
2. Create an action plan with parents/guardians and student (if needed)
