WGU D169 Essential Practices for Supporting Diverse Learners

WGU D169 Essential Practices f or Supporting Diverse Learners Title III ✔✔English learner instruction, Standardized testing rules ELs with exceptionalities Which law requires states to develop programs that meet the specialized needs that students who are ELs may bring to the classroom? ✔✔Title III English as a Second Language (ESL) or English Language Development (ELD) ✔✔Program of techniques, methodology, and special curriculum designed to t each ELs explicitly about the English language, including the academic vocabulary needed to access content instruction, and to develop their English language proficiency in all four language domains (i.e., speaking, listening, reading, and writing). Struc tured English Immersion (SEI) ✔✔Program designed to impart English language skills so that the ELs can transition and succeed in an English -only mainstream classroom once proficient. Title III requires schools to report on the number of ELs receiving serv ices and their progress toward ________ and _________ ✔✔language proficiency and content knowledge Which practice may reduce inappropriate over or under -identification of ELs for special education services? ✔✔Consider the student's native literacy and lan guage ESSA permits native language testing if it is necessary, and students can be exempted from the reading assessment during ___________ ✔✔1st year in the country What is WIDA? ✔✔World -Class Instructional Design and Assessment What areas includes standards promoted by WIDA for describing how ELs should use language? ✔✔Social and instructional language along with academic language in mathematics, science, and social studies Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) ✔✔This educati on law requires public schools to meet the unique needs of eligible K -12 students with disabilities. Schools do this by providing services. Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act ✔✔This civil rights law prohibits disability discrimination at schools that g et federal funding. Schools meet these requirements by removing barriers to learning. Which law provides 504 plans for eligible K -12 studetns? ✔✔Section 504 Which law provides freedom from discrimination at work? ✔✔ADA What is a LRE? ✔✔Least Restrictive Environment What must an IEP include? ✔✔goals, testing accommodations, present levels of performance, services, modifications, and placement information When LRE comes up, what two words come up also? ✔✔mainstreaming and inclusion What is a resource pr ovided by Section 504? ✔✔Accommodations or modifications due to a disability What is an instruction is a type of program model in which an English language teacher works with ELs in small groups to provide English language instruction, pulling them out of their regular classroom to do so. ✔✔pullout instruction What is SLD? ✔✔Specific Learning Disability SLD affect a child's ability to ________ ✔✔read, write, listen, speak, reason, or do math. Emotional Disturbance includes _____________ ✔✔anxiety, bipol ar, OCD, schizophrenia, depression What category of disabilities does Dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia fall under ? ✔✔Specific Learning Disability What disability category has the highest percentage of children served under IDEA? ✔✔Specific Learning Disability (SLD) A high school special education student diagnosed with autism received special education services and related support for social pragma tic (social skills) therapy from a speech -language pathologist. He requires some academic support, primarily in written expression and task management, which happens within the general education environment in a co -taught English class with an English teac her and his assigned special education teacher. He also receives speech -language therapy twice per week. This student's time out of the general education