Interactive Practice for Strategies
- Alignments: 1b, 1d, 1h, 2a, 2f, 2m, 5c, 6g, 7k, 10t
- Description: Find different activities to use with students, such as a Jeopardy game or a Tic Tac Toe game.
- Access: [no resource provided]
IRIS Center, Special Education Acronyms
- Alignments: 2a, 2f, 4b, 7k, 10t
- Description: Complete a table of acronyms pertaining to special education, then discuss between students using provided prompts.
- Access: Special Education Acronyms
Performance. The teacher creates developmentally appropriate instruction that takes into account individual learners’ strengths, interests, and needs and that enables each learner to advance and accelerate his/her learning.
Knowledge. The teacher understands how learning occurs-- how learners construct knowledge, acquire skills, and develop disciplined thinking processes--and knows how to use instructional strategies that promote student learning.
Disposition. The teacher respects learners’ differing strengths and needs and is committed to using this information to further each learner’s development.
Performance. The teacher designs, adapts, and delivers instruction to address each student’s diverse learning strengths and needs and creates opportunities for students to demonstrate their learning in different ways.
Performance. The teacher accesses resources, supports, and specialized assistance and services to meet particular learning differences or needs.
Disposition. The teacher respects learners as individuals with differing personal and family backgrounds and various skills, abilities, perspectives, talents, and interests.
Performance. The teacher facilitates learners’ use of current tools and resources to maximize content learning in varied contexts.
Performance. The teacher effectively uses multiple and appropriate types of assessment data to identify each student’s learning needs and to develop differentiated learning experiences.
Knowledge. The teacher knows a range of evidence-based instructional strategies, resources, and technological tools and how to use them effectively to plan instruction that meets diverse learning needs.
Disposition. The teacher embraces the challenge of continuous improvement and change.
Performance. The teacher engages students in learning experiences in the disciplines that encourage learners to understand, question, and analyze ideas from diverse perspectives so that they master the content.
