WGU D096: Fundamentals of Diverse
Learners – Master Strategies to
Empower Every Student
What Is progress monitoring used for?
Monitoring Academic and Behavior progress
What Age is progress monitoring usually used for?
Elementary students. But it can be conducted effectively at any age.
CBM (Curriculum Based Measurement)
Includes instruments or probes.
Has a short sample from the curriculum.
Includes items from across the curriculum to provide a representative indicator of the students skills.
It provides immediate info about how the student is mastering skills being taught at the moment.
What is the major difference between Tier 2 and 3 of support in MTSS
Tier 3 provides more instructional time but it also provides smaller groups.
Targets precise objectives at appropriate levels, systematic instruction, extensive opportunities for
practices, and increased error correction and feedback opportunities.
Tier 3 level of support
--Intensive--
The most intensive level of support provided (in addition to tier 1).
This intervention is geared toward skill growth and acquisition much more narrowly focused.
Tier 2 level of support
--Targeted--
Small group intervention provided to students in addition to tier 1 support ( Targeted areas of need)
Tier 1 level of support
--Core--
Whole class instruction using evidence-based general education strategies
What is one function of the home language survey for language students
Determines the potential need for a language assistance program
Once students are ID'd as potential EL's what is the process?
,They must be assessed with a valid and reliable assessment to determine if they qualify for EL services
A teacher observes disruptive behavior among a number of students, what should she do?
Reduce long delays between activities to hold students attention
What type of differentiation is address in an IEP where a student need to sit near the teacher in the
first or second row?
Environment
What curriculum adjustment will help students who are bored in class?
Adjust assignments to include student interest
What is a student able to do in Early Production?
Basic vocab
Know up to 1000 words
What differentiation method is a teacher using when offering reading materials at different reading
levels to students?
Content
What is a student able to do in the preproduction stage?
Practice pronouncing words
Basic vocab
Know up to 500 words
Stages of Second Language Acquisition
1. Preproduction
2. Early Production
3. Speech Emergence
4. Intermediate Fluency
5. Advanced Fluency
Explicit Instruction
An instructional strategy that emphasizes group instruction. The instruction offered should include a
great deal of teacher-student interactivity.
The teacher models the behaviors taught
Explicit instruction and implicit instruction
Two distinct methods of providing instruction to diverse students and these are used for various student
groups depending on the functioning level and the subject area
Systematic Instruction
, A carefully planned sequence for instruction, similar to a builder's blueprint for a house. A blueprint is
carefully thought out and designed before building materials are gathered and construction begins. The
plan for instruction that is systematic is carefully thought out, strategic, and designed before activities
and lessons are planned. Instruction is across the five components (phonemic awareness, phonics,
fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension). For systematic instruction, lessons build on previously taught
information, from simple to complex.
3 characteristics of systematic instruction
Goal based
Supported and scaffolded
Logically sequenced
Progress Monitoring
Tests that keep the teacher informed about the child's progress in learning to read during the school
year. They are a quick sample of critical reading skills that will tell the teacher if the child is making
adequate progress toward grade level reading ability at the end of the year.
Curriculum Based Measurement
Used to measure the growth of student's proficiency in the core skills that contribute to success in
school
Differentiated Instruction
Practice of individualizing instructional methods, and possibly also individualizing specific content and
instructional goals, to align with each student's existing knowledge, skills, and needs.
Differentiated assessment
Allows more accurate measurement of what students know, it can provide valuable information about
learning profiles and preferences.
Speech Emergence
Continues gaining vocabulary, communicates using words with high semantic context, nouns, verbs, and
adjectives, understands more than they can communicate, more effectively in face-to-face interactions.
knows up to 3000 words
Co-teaching
In co-teaching arrangements, two or more teachers teach together in the same classroom where
students benefit from each teacher's specialty (e.g., a regular and a special education teacher working
with regular students and students with a specific disability such as hearing impairments).
Acculturation
The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another.
Retention
Learners – Master Strategies to
Empower Every Student
What Is progress monitoring used for?
Monitoring Academic and Behavior progress
What Age is progress monitoring usually used for?
Elementary students. But it can be conducted effectively at any age.
CBM (Curriculum Based Measurement)
Includes instruments or probes.
Has a short sample from the curriculum.
Includes items from across the curriculum to provide a representative indicator of the students skills.
It provides immediate info about how the student is mastering skills being taught at the moment.
What is the major difference between Tier 2 and 3 of support in MTSS
Tier 3 provides more instructional time but it also provides smaller groups.
Targets precise objectives at appropriate levels, systematic instruction, extensive opportunities for
practices, and increased error correction and feedback opportunities.
Tier 3 level of support
--Intensive--
The most intensive level of support provided (in addition to tier 1).
This intervention is geared toward skill growth and acquisition much more narrowly focused.
Tier 2 level of support
--Targeted--
Small group intervention provided to students in addition to tier 1 support ( Targeted areas of need)
Tier 1 level of support
--Core--
Whole class instruction using evidence-based general education strategies
What is one function of the home language survey for language students
Determines the potential need for a language assistance program
Once students are ID'd as potential EL's what is the process?
,They must be assessed with a valid and reliable assessment to determine if they qualify for EL services
A teacher observes disruptive behavior among a number of students, what should she do?
Reduce long delays between activities to hold students attention
What type of differentiation is address in an IEP where a student need to sit near the teacher in the
first or second row?
Environment
What curriculum adjustment will help students who are bored in class?
Adjust assignments to include student interest
What is a student able to do in Early Production?
Basic vocab
Know up to 1000 words
What differentiation method is a teacher using when offering reading materials at different reading
levels to students?
Content
What is a student able to do in the preproduction stage?
Practice pronouncing words
Basic vocab
Know up to 500 words
Stages of Second Language Acquisition
1. Preproduction
2. Early Production
3. Speech Emergence
4. Intermediate Fluency
5. Advanced Fluency
Explicit Instruction
An instructional strategy that emphasizes group instruction. The instruction offered should include a
great deal of teacher-student interactivity.
The teacher models the behaviors taught
Explicit instruction and implicit instruction
Two distinct methods of providing instruction to diverse students and these are used for various student
groups depending on the functioning level and the subject area
Systematic Instruction
, A carefully planned sequence for instruction, similar to a builder's blueprint for a house. A blueprint is
carefully thought out and designed before building materials are gathered and construction begins. The
plan for instruction that is systematic is carefully thought out, strategic, and designed before activities
and lessons are planned. Instruction is across the five components (phonemic awareness, phonics,
fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension). For systematic instruction, lessons build on previously taught
information, from simple to complex.
3 characteristics of systematic instruction
Goal based
Supported and scaffolded
Logically sequenced
Progress Monitoring
Tests that keep the teacher informed about the child's progress in learning to read during the school
year. They are a quick sample of critical reading skills that will tell the teacher if the child is making
adequate progress toward grade level reading ability at the end of the year.
Curriculum Based Measurement
Used to measure the growth of student's proficiency in the core skills that contribute to success in
school
Differentiated Instruction
Practice of individualizing instructional methods, and possibly also individualizing specific content and
instructional goals, to align with each student's existing knowledge, skills, and needs.
Differentiated assessment
Allows more accurate measurement of what students know, it can provide valuable information about
learning profiles and preferences.
Speech Emergence
Continues gaining vocabulary, communicates using words with high semantic context, nouns, verbs, and
adjectives, understands more than they can communicate, more effectively in face-to-face interactions.
knows up to 3000 words
Co-teaching
In co-teaching arrangements, two or more teachers teach together in the same classroom where
students benefit from each teacher's specialty (e.g., a regular and a special education teacher working
with regular students and students with a specific disability such as hearing impairments).
Acculturation
The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another.
Retention
