Chapter 9 / Teacher Academy
Schools designed to emphasize a particular subject area or area of talent and attract qualified students from throughout the school district.
magnet schools
Placing students with special needs who show the ability to keep up with the curriculum in a regular class.
mainstreaming
Howard Gardner's theory that individuals have a broad range of types of intelligence, each to a different degree.
multiple intelligences
Programs that allow students to leave the regular classroom for certain periods of the day for additional instruction to meet their particular needs.
pull-out programs
A broad range of physical, mental, social, and behavioral challenges that impact learning.
special needs
Students whose native language is not English and who are not yet proficient in the English language.
English language learners (ELL)
A written educational plan developed for a specific student with disabilities.
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
In teaching, modifications to the environment, learning strategies, or materials that are made to help students with particular special needs succeed in the classroom.
accommodations
People who learn best by hearing or listening to information.
auditory learners
Teaching that incorporates learning options to better meet the specific learning-related characteristics of individual students.
differentiated instruction
A particular racial, national, or cultural group, including that group's customs, beliefs, values, and often language and religion.
ethnicity
Students who are gifted, talented, or have special needs, such as a disability, and need, or can benefit from, programs matched to their abilities and potential.
exceptional learners
Placing students with special needs into a regular class, using modified class assignments, if they will benefit from the class experience.
inclusion
People who learn best by performing hands-on or physical activities.
kinesthetic-tactile learners
Differences in learning based on abilities, interests, or experiences.
learning diversity
Preferred methods of absorbing and processing information.
learning styles
Describes students who are not proficient in English.
limited English proficiency (LEP)
A form of learning that allows students to move to the next learning task as soon as they master the previous one. Students progress at individual rates, rather than as a class.
self-paced learning
Educational settings that provide adapted programs, extra staff, and specialized equipment or learning environments or materials to help students with special needs to learn.
special education
Preconceived generalizations about certain groups of people.
stereotype
People who learn best if information is presented in a way that they can see.
visual learners