D096 Fundamentals of Diverse
learners WITH LATEST QUESTION
AND ANSWERS 2025/2026
Content: what the student needs to learn or how the student will get access to the
information
Process: · activities in which the student engages in order to make sense of or master
the content
Products: · culminating projects that ask the student to rehearse, apply, and extend
what he or she has learned in a unit.
Learning Environment: the way the classroom works and feels
Explicit Instruction - ANSWER/Detailed and direct, Straight to the point
An instructional strategy that emphasizes group instruction . The instruction offered
should include a great deal of teacher-student interactivity.
6 core teaching functions: Review, presentation, guided practice, corrections and
feedback, independent practice, weekly and monthly reviews
Curriculum Compacting - ANSWER/strategy for differentiating curriculum for gifted and
talented students by replacing content that students have already mastered with more
challenging material
Progress Montioring - ANSWER/used to assess students' academic performance,
quantify their rates of improvement or progress toward goals, and determine how they
are responding to instruction.
Universal design for learning (UDL) - ANSWER/Is an approach to curriculum that
minimizes barriers and minimizes learning for all students. Universal curriculum that can
be used and understood by everyone.
3 areas: engagement, representation, action & expression
Systematic Instruction - ANSWER/Instruction requires order (How to tie your shoe)
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. For systematic
instruction, lessons build on previously taught information, from simple to complex.
task analysis - ANSWER/an important element of systematic instruction and can help
teachers sequence instruction.
Breaks complex skills into smaller, more manageable chunks
Formative Assessment - ANSWER/Assessment used throughout teaching of a lesson
and/or unit to gauge students' understanding and inform and guide teaching
is to monitor student learning and provide ongoing feedback to staff and students.
Summative Assessment - ANSWER/Assessment data collected after instruction to
evaluate a student's mastery of the curriculum objectives and a teacher's effectiveness
at instructional delivery.
Title III of Every Student Succeeds (ESSA) - ANSWER/Relates to education for EL's
Helps ensure that English learners and immigrant students and youth, attain English
proficiency and develop high levels of academic achievement.
Individuals with disability act (IDEA) - ANSWER/Works with LRE and IEP's
ensures all students aged 3 - 21 are eligible for special education and related services.
In order to be covered must have disability in one of the 13 categories.
-Specific learning disability (most common) Dyslexia, Dyscalculia
-Other health impairment- strength and energy ADHD
-Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
-Emotional disturbance
-speech or language impairment
-visual impairment, including blindness
-Deafness
-hearing impairment
-orthopedic impairment, cerebral palsy lack function in bodies
-intellectual disability, down syndrome
-traumatic brain injury
-multiple disabilities, more than one condition.
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act - ANSWER/Accommodations
learners WITH LATEST QUESTION
AND ANSWERS 2025/2026
Content: what the student needs to learn or how the student will get access to the
information
Process: · activities in which the student engages in order to make sense of or master
the content
Products: · culminating projects that ask the student to rehearse, apply, and extend
what he or she has learned in a unit.
Learning Environment: the way the classroom works and feels
Explicit Instruction - ANSWER/Detailed and direct, Straight to the point
An instructional strategy that emphasizes group instruction . The instruction offered
should include a great deal of teacher-student interactivity.
6 core teaching functions: Review, presentation, guided practice, corrections and
feedback, independent practice, weekly and monthly reviews
Curriculum Compacting - ANSWER/strategy for differentiating curriculum for gifted and
talented students by replacing content that students have already mastered with more
challenging material
Progress Montioring - ANSWER/used to assess students' academic performance,
quantify their rates of improvement or progress toward goals, and determine how they
are responding to instruction.
Universal design for learning (UDL) - ANSWER/Is an approach to curriculum that
minimizes barriers and minimizes learning for all students. Universal curriculum that can
be used and understood by everyone.
3 areas: engagement, representation, action & expression
Systematic Instruction - ANSWER/Instruction requires order (How to tie your shoe)
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. For systematic
instruction, lessons build on previously taught information, from simple to complex.
task analysis - ANSWER/an important element of systematic instruction and can help
teachers sequence instruction.
Breaks complex skills into smaller, more manageable chunks
Formative Assessment - ANSWER/Assessment used throughout teaching of a lesson
and/or unit to gauge students' understanding and inform and guide teaching
is to monitor student learning and provide ongoing feedback to staff and students.
Summative Assessment - ANSWER/Assessment data collected after instruction to
evaluate a student's mastery of the curriculum objectives and a teacher's effectiveness
at instructional delivery.
Title III of Every Student Succeeds (ESSA) - ANSWER/Relates to education for EL's
Helps ensure that English learners and immigrant students and youth, attain English
proficiency and develop high levels of academic achievement.
Individuals with disability act (IDEA) - ANSWER/Works with LRE and IEP's
ensures all students aged 3 - 21 are eligible for special education and related services.
In order to be covered must have disability in one of the 13 categories.
-Specific learning disability (most common) Dyslexia, Dyscalculia
-Other health impairment- strength and energy ADHD
-Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
-Emotional disturbance
-speech or language impairment
-visual impairment, including blindness
-Deafness
-hearing impairment
-orthopedic impairment, cerebral palsy lack function in bodies
-intellectual disability, down syndrome
-traumatic brain injury
-multiple disabilities, more than one condition.
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act - ANSWER/Accommodations
