WGU D096 Fundamentals of Diverse Learners Exam 2023
Questions and Answers (Verified Answers).
What Is progress monitoring used for? - Correct Answers-Monitoring Academic and
Behavior progress
What Age is progress monitoring usually used for? - Correct Answers-Elementary
students. But it can be conducted effectively at any age.
CBM (Curriculum Based Measurement) - Correct Answers-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 - Correct
Answers-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 - Correct Answers---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 - Correct Answers---Targeted--
Small group intervention provided to students in addition to tier 1 support ( Targeted
areas of need)
Tier 1 level of support - Correct Answers---Core--
Whole class instruction using evidence-based general education strategies
What is one function of the home language survey for language students - Correct
Answers-Determines the potential need for a language assistance program
Once students are ID'd as potential EL's what is the process? - Correct Answers-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? - Correct Answers-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? - Correct Answers-Environment
What curriculum adjustment will help students who are bored in class? - Correct
Answers-Adjust assignments to include student interest
What is a student able to do in Early Production? - Correct Answers-Basic vocab
Know up to 1000 words
What differentiation method is a teacher using when offering reading materials at
different reading levels to students? - Correct Answers-Content
What is a student able to do in the preproduction stage? - Correct Answers-Practice
pronouncing words
Basic vocab
Know up to 500 words
Stages of Second Language Acquisition - Correct Answers-1. Preproduction
2. Early Production
3. Speech Emergence
4. Intermediate Fluency
5. Advanced Fluency
Explicit Instruction - Correct Answers-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 - Correct Answers-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 - Correct Answers-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 - Correct Answers-Goal based
Supported and scaffolded
Logically sequenced
Progress Monitoring - Correct Answers-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 - Correct Answers-Used to measure the growth of
student's proficiency in the core skills that contribute to success in school
Differentiated Instruction - Correct Answers-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 - Correct Answers-Allows more accurate measurement of
what students know, it can provide valuable information about learning profiles and
preferences.
Speech Emergence - Correct Answers-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 - Correct Answers-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 - Correct Answers-The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by
one group under the influence of another.
Retention - Correct Answers-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? - Correct
Answers-Lack of planning time
Team Teaching - Correct Answers-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 - Correct Answers-General Ed and Special Ed teachers working
together to meet the needs of special needs
students
Alternative co-teaching - Correct Answers-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 - Correct
Answers-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
Questions and Answers (Verified Answers).
What Is progress monitoring used for? - Correct Answers-Monitoring Academic and
Behavior progress
What Age is progress monitoring usually used for? - Correct Answers-Elementary
students. But it can be conducted effectively at any age.
CBM (Curriculum Based Measurement) - Correct Answers-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 - Correct
Answers-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 - Correct Answers---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 - Correct Answers---Targeted--
Small group intervention provided to students in addition to tier 1 support ( Targeted
areas of need)
Tier 1 level of support - Correct Answers---Core--
Whole class instruction using evidence-based general education strategies
What is one function of the home language survey for language students - Correct
Answers-Determines the potential need for a language assistance program
Once students are ID'd as potential EL's what is the process? - Correct Answers-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? - Correct Answers-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? - Correct Answers-Environment
What curriculum adjustment will help students who are bored in class? - Correct
Answers-Adjust assignments to include student interest
What is a student able to do in Early Production? - Correct Answers-Basic vocab
Know up to 1000 words
What differentiation method is a teacher using when offering reading materials at
different reading levels to students? - Correct Answers-Content
What is a student able to do in the preproduction stage? - Correct Answers-Practice
pronouncing words
Basic vocab
Know up to 500 words
Stages of Second Language Acquisition - Correct Answers-1. Preproduction
2. Early Production
3. Speech Emergence
4. Intermediate Fluency
5. Advanced Fluency
Explicit Instruction - Correct Answers-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 - Correct Answers-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 - Correct Answers-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 - Correct Answers-Goal based
Supported and scaffolded
Logically sequenced
Progress Monitoring - Correct Answers-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 - Correct Answers-Used to measure the growth of
student's proficiency in the core skills that contribute to success in school
Differentiated Instruction - Correct Answers-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 - Correct Answers-Allows more accurate measurement of
what students know, it can provide valuable information about learning profiles and
preferences.
Speech Emergence - Correct Answers-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 - Correct Answers-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 - Correct Answers-The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by
one group under the influence of another.
Retention - Correct Answers-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? - Correct
Answers-Lack of planning time
Team Teaching - Correct Answers-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 - Correct Answers-General Ed and Special Ed teachers working
together to meet the needs of special needs
students
Alternative co-teaching - Correct Answers-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 - Correct
Answers-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
