WGU D096 FUNDAMENTALS OF DIVERSE LEARNERS
What Is progress monitoring used for?
What age is it used for? - Answer --Monitoring Academic and Behavior progress
-Elementary, but can done at any age
CBM (Curriculum Based Measurement), what kind of info does it provide? What does it
include? - Answer --It provides immediate info about how the student is mastering skills
being taught at the moment
-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
Tier 3 level of support (MTSS) - Answer ---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 (MTSS) - Answer ---Targeted--
Small group intervention provided to students in addition to tier 1 support ( Targeted
areas of need)
Tier 1 level of support (MTSS) - Answer ---Core--
Whole class instruction using evidence-based general education strategies
What is the purpose of the at home language survey for students? - Answer -
Determines the potential need for a language assistance program and if they are an EL
Once students are ID'd as potential EL's what is the process? - Answer -They must be
assessed to determine if they qualify for EL services
What type of differentiation is address in an IEP where a student need to sit near the
teacher in the first or second row? - Answer -Environment
What 2 things should a student be able to do in Early Production? - Answer -Basic
vocab
Know up to 1000 words
What differentiation method is a teacher using when offering reading materials at
different reading levels to students? - Answer -Content
What three things should a student be able to do in the preproduction stage? - Answer
-Practice pronouncing words
, Basic vocab
Know up to 500 words
Name the 5 stages of second language acquisition - Answer -1. Preproduction
2. Early Production
3. Speech Emergence
4. Intermediate Fluency
5. Advanced Fluency
Describe the explicit instructional strategy - Answer --Emphasizes group instruction
-The instruction offered should include a great deal of teacher-student interactivity
-The teacher models the behaviors taught
What is progress monitoring? - Answer -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
What is curriculum based measurement? - Answer -Used to measure the growth of
student's proficiency in the core skills that contribute to success in school
Describe differentiated instruction - Answer -Practice of individualizing instructional
methods, and possibly content and instructional goals, to align with each student's
existing knowledge, skills, and needs
Describe differentiated assessment - Answer -Allows more accurate measurement of
what students know, it can provide valuable information about learning profiles and
preferences.
Describe the speech emergence stage of language acquisition, what is the childs skill
level like? - Answer --Continues gaining vocab
-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
Describe co-teaching - Answer -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).
Define acculturation - Answer -The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one
group under the influence of another
Define cultural retention - Answer -Refers to the ability to keep aspects of ones culture,
while adjusting to a new culture
What Is progress monitoring used for?
What age is it used for? - Answer --Monitoring Academic and Behavior progress
-Elementary, but can done at any age
CBM (Curriculum Based Measurement), what kind of info does it provide? What does it
include? - Answer --It provides immediate info about how the student is mastering skills
being taught at the moment
-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
Tier 3 level of support (MTSS) - Answer ---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 (MTSS) - Answer ---Targeted--
Small group intervention provided to students in addition to tier 1 support ( Targeted
areas of need)
Tier 1 level of support (MTSS) - Answer ---Core--
Whole class instruction using evidence-based general education strategies
What is the purpose of the at home language survey for students? - Answer -
Determines the potential need for a language assistance program and if they are an EL
Once students are ID'd as potential EL's what is the process? - Answer -They must be
assessed to determine if they qualify for EL services
What type of differentiation is address in an IEP where a student need to sit near the
teacher in the first or second row? - Answer -Environment
What 2 things should a student be able to do in Early Production? - Answer -Basic
vocab
Know up to 1000 words
What differentiation method is a teacher using when offering reading materials at
different reading levels to students? - Answer -Content
What three things should a student be able to do in the preproduction stage? - Answer
-Practice pronouncing words
, Basic vocab
Know up to 500 words
Name the 5 stages of second language acquisition - Answer -1. Preproduction
2. Early Production
3. Speech Emergence
4. Intermediate Fluency
5. Advanced Fluency
Describe the explicit instructional strategy - Answer --Emphasizes group instruction
-The instruction offered should include a great deal of teacher-student interactivity
-The teacher models the behaviors taught
What is progress monitoring? - Answer -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
What is curriculum based measurement? - Answer -Used to measure the growth of
student's proficiency in the core skills that contribute to success in school
Describe differentiated instruction - Answer -Practice of individualizing instructional
methods, and possibly content and instructional goals, to align with each student's
existing knowledge, skills, and needs
Describe differentiated assessment - Answer -Allows more accurate measurement of
what students know, it can provide valuable information about learning profiles and
preferences.
Describe the speech emergence stage of language acquisition, what is the childs skill
level like? - Answer --Continues gaining vocab
-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
Describe co-teaching - Answer -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).
Define acculturation - Answer -The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one
group under the influence of another
Define cultural retention - Answer -Refers to the ability to keep aspects of ones culture,
while adjusting to a new culture
