WGU D096 Exam Questions with Verified Answers (Graded A)

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) - ANSWER-Requires public schools to meet need of K-12 students with disabilities Law that provides IEPs Specifically in school setting (Not workplace) FAPE and LRE Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) - ANSWER-Civil rights law that prohibits disability discrimination by schools, employers, etc. Reasonable accommodations in workplace Freedom from discrimination Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (Section 504) - ANSWER-Civil rights law that prohibits disability discrimination at schools that get federal funding Meet these requirements by removing barriers to learning Accommodations to classrooms to meet needs FAPE and LRE Individualized Education Program (IEP) - ANSWER-A customized plan for a student with a disability developed by a committee that guides the instruction and services the student receives IDEA Parents must sign off on it IEP vs. 504 - ANSWER-IEP students are protected by IDEA; qualify for special education programs 504 students are protected by ADA; require accommodation in classroom but do not qualify for special education programs Stages of Language Development - ANSWER-1. Preproduction 2. Early Production 3. Speech Emergence 4. Intermediate Fluency 5. Advanced Fluency Preproduction Language Stage - ANSWER-Does not verbalize Draws/Points Early Production Language Stage - ANSWER-1 or 2 word responses Key words and familiar phrases Speech Emergence Language Stage - ANSWER-Simple sentences Grammar/Pronunciation errors Misunderstands jokes Intermediate Fluency Language Stage - ANSWER-Few errors Advanced Fluency Language Stage - ANSWER-Near-native level of language Universal Design for Learning (UDL) - ANSWER-The design of curriculum materials, instructional activities, and evaluation procedures that can meet the needs of learners with widely varying abilities and backgrounds Provide engagement, representation, and action/expression Minimize barriers to learning and engagement Differentiation Methods - ANSWER-Content Process Products Learning Environment Content (Differentiation) - ANSWER-What/How the student needs to learn Ex. Presenting information in auditory and visual ways Process (Differentiation) - ANSWER-Activities to engage students in learning Ex. Offering manipulatives/ hands-on activities Product (Differentiation) - ANSWER-How students apply/show what they have learned Ex. Giving students options of how to express required learning Learning Environment (Differentiation) - ANSWER-The way the classroom looks and feels Ex. Providing materials that reflect a variety of cultures and home settings Krashen's Theory of Second Language Acquisition - ANSWER-acquisition/learning hypothesis, monitor hypothesis, natural order hypothesis, input hypothesis and affective filter hypothesis. Acquisition-Learning Hypothesis - ANSWER-Acquisition is rough-tuned and unconscious, and used to communicate messages. It is not consciously attended to. Learning, however, is very fine-tuned and refers to a learner‟s knowledge of rules and their ability to talk abut them. The Natural Approach values the former. moniter hypothesis - ANSWER-explains how learning grammatical rules affects language acquisition. when an individual learns rules of grammar, he is able to monitor consciously the discourse he hears in the future. individuals use grammatical rules to monitor their speech. Natural Order Hypothesis - ANSWER-1. second language learners produce single words 2. they strong words together based on meaning and not syntax 3. they begin to identify elements that begin and end sentences 4. they begin to identify different elements within sentences and can rearrange them to produce questions Input Hypothesis - ANSWER-students acquire language by understanding input that is just above their current level of proficiency Affective Filter Hypothesis - ANSWER-students have a higher achievement level when the level of anxiety and frustration is low. pr