WGU D096 Fundamentals of Diverse Learners 2023/2024
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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
Refers to the ability to keep aspects of ones culture, while adjusting to a new culture
The most common issue with implementing co-teaching effectively in school?
Lack of planning time
Team Teaching
Teachers share the responsibility for two or more classes, dividing up the subject areas
between them.
Only 1 teacher speaks at a time
Collaborative teaching
General Ed and Special Ed teachers working
together to meet the needs of special needs
students
Alternative co-teaching
Allows a teacher to specifically target the terminology or concept, before moving on to
the next portion of class time, i.e. lab work
2 ways teachers can intentionally lessen implicit biases in the classroom
1. Make connections with people from cultures other than their own
2. Model how to talk about culture and diversity in a positive and transformative way
Implicit bias
A hidden, automatic attitude that may guide behaviors independent of a person's
awareness or control
Assimilation
The social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
Cultural Transition
Individuals entering a new culture and the natural changes that take place within that
transition.
Formative Assessment
Assessment used throughout teaching of a lesson and/or unit to gauge students'
understanding and inform and guide teaching
4 characteristics of feedback for students
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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
Refers to the ability to keep aspects of ones culture, while adjusting to a new culture
The most common issue with implementing co-teaching effectively in school?
Lack of planning time
Team Teaching
Teachers share the responsibility for two or more classes, dividing up the subject areas
between them.
Only 1 teacher speaks at a time
Collaborative teaching
General Ed and Special Ed teachers working
together to meet the needs of special needs
students
Alternative co-teaching
Allows a teacher to specifically target the terminology or concept, before moving on to
the next portion of class time, i.e. lab work
2 ways teachers can intentionally lessen implicit biases in the classroom
1. Make connections with people from cultures other than their own
2. Model how to talk about culture and diversity in a positive and transformative way
Implicit bias
A hidden, automatic attitude that may guide behaviors independent of a person's
awareness or control
Assimilation
The social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
Cultural Transition
Individuals entering a new culture and the natural changes that take place within that
transition.
Formative Assessment
Assessment used throughout teaching of a lesson and/or unit to gauge students'
understanding and inform and guide teaching
4 characteristics of feedback for students
