Sentences with phrase «identifying students with learning disabilities»

The Center on RTI provides services on a fee for service basis to assist states, districts, and schools to successfully implement and scale - up MTSS / RTI and its components — screening students, monitoring student progress, providing evidence - based interventions that adjust in intensity depending on a student's responsiveness, and identifying students with learning disabilities.

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A new theory regarding how the brain first learns basic math could alter approaches to identifying and teaching students with math learning disabilities.
The researchers chose two high schools in two different school districts, focusing on five students that were in 10th or 11th grade, who were identified with a specific learning disability and required modifications and accommodations in their classrooms.
But busy teachers with 30 other kids in each class need help, says Kathleen Laundy, a therapist who has worked extensively on identifying learning disabilities in Connecticut schools and has written a book about school teams that benefit these students.
What was increasingly interesting, to both observe and be informed within the research, was the impact that masks appeared to have on students with identified neurological disabilities and / or learning challenges.
Urban, public focus — L&L fieldwork takes place in the Cambridge Public Schools, where you will learn from innovative programs in place for English language learners, bilingual students, and students identified with learning disabilities.
The commissioner may also place under preliminary registration review any school that has conditions that threaten the health, safety and / or educational welfare of students or has been the subject of persistent complaints to the department by parents or persons in parental relation to the student, and has been identified by the commissioner as a poor learning environment based upon a combination of factors affecting student learning, including but not limited to: high rates of student absenteeism, high levels of school violence, excessive rates of student suspensions, violation of applicable building health and safety standards, high rates of teacher and administrator turnover, excessive rates of referral of students to or participation in special education or excessive rates of participation of students with disabilities in the alternate assessment, excessive transfers of students to alternative high school and high school equivalency programs and excessive use of uncertified teachers or teachers in subject areas other than those for which they possess certification.
A student identified as having a disability which adversely affects the ability to learn a language may be exempted from the requirements set forth in this paragraph if the student's individualized education program, developed in accordance with section 200.4 of this Title states that such requirements are not appropriate.
«While certainly these districts are not the only ones to show results for students with disabilities, we hope that this announcement today spurs a dialogue so that we identify and learn from successful programs across the state,» said Acting Commissioner Chris Cerf.
All students, including English Learners (ELs) and Students with Disabilities (SWDs), benefit from well - designed assessments that measure their learning and ability and identify their strengths and weastudents, including English Learners (ELs) and Students with Disabilities (SWDs), benefit from well - designed assessments that measure their learning and ability and identify their strengths and weaStudents with Disabilities (SWDs), benefit from well - designed assessments that measure their learning and ability and identify their strengths and weaknesses.
Advocates for dyslexia awareness say not enough teachers know how to identify and help students with the learning disability early on, but a bill the General Assembly approved this week aims to change that.
Our goal is to guide educators and families in the large - scale implementation of RtI so that each child has access to quality instruction and that struggling students — including those with learning disabilities — are identified early and receive the necessary supports to be successful.
Special Education — A special education teacher is responsible for providing the students they serve with direct instruction in the area of content with which the student has an identified learning disability.
around the ability of states to successfully identify schools that are failing to meet students» needs, particularly the needs of low income students, students of color, and students with learning disabilities.
There's some concern around the ability of states to successfully identify schools that are failing to meet students» needs, particularly the needs of low income students, students of color, and students with learning disabilities.
Delaware is targeting the literacy needs of students with disabilities in grades K - 3 with an initiative providing coaching, targeted professional learning and technical assistance, and support to identify the root causes of student skill gaps.
And as for identification, a properly trained gifted coordinator would be well versed in using multiple criteria to identify all gifted students in an urban setting, whether minority, poor, under - performing or GTLD (gifted with learning disabilities).
Teacher Preparation for K - 12 Students with emotional and behavioral and learning disabilities, Students identified with Disabilities in juvenile facilities, Special Edisabilities, Students identified with Disabilities in juvenile facilities, Special EDisabilities in juvenile facilities, Special Education Law
There are two distinct goals to our approach: (a) to promote access, participation, and learning for students with learning disabilities who receive the majority of their instruction in general education classrooms, and (b) to develop preservice teachers» abilities to identify efficacious technologies that will enhance students» transitions from school to work.
The legislation and accompanying regulations have a dual focus: (1) to provide increasingly intensive expert reading instruction to ensure that students having difficulty learning to read are not simply getting too little or too inexpert reading instruction; and (2) to locate students who exhibit difficulties even after receiving intensive reading instruction (Johnston, in press), who will now be identified as students with learning disabilities.
Beate taught elementary as well as secondary students, spending a large portion of her career in Special Education working with students identified with learning disabilities.
Students identified with special needs range from autism, specific learning disability, speech and language impairment, hearing impaired, visually impaired, developmentally delayed, and other health impairments.
Based on the findings of this report, seven effective instructional practices were identified for teaching mathematics to K - 12 students with learning disabilities.
Field's teachers have greatly improved their ability to accurately and efficiently identify whether a student has special learning needs, thanks so very focused teacher training at the district level, which Wilhoit said is key to better serving students with disabilities.
It describes these practices and, incorporating recommendations from The Final Report of The National Mathematics Advisory Panel as well, specifies research - based recommendations for students with learning disabilities and for students who are experiencing difficulties in learning mathematics but are not identified as having a math learning disability.
Typically developing students, gifted students, students who are impacted by poverty, children who speak multiple languages or have a home language that is different than the classroom language, and students with identified or potential developmental or learning disabilities are all covered within this highly practical, easy - to - use guide to UDL in the early years.
This collection of resources provides information about the realtionship between MTSS / RTI and special education, using MTSS / RTI to identify students with specific learning disabilities, disproportionality, and early intervening services.
The three also penned the Introduction, in which they write that the purpose of the special issue is to «provide content knowledge about specific mathematics skills and concepts, and evidence - based practices for teaching this content to students who have [a mathematics learning disability] or are struggling with mathematics but may not have an identified mathematics disability
Participants were 11th and 12th grade students identified with learning disabilities in reading and writing from two intact, self - contained social studies classes.During the three weeks of the study, students in the experimental group received content regarding the Industrial Revolution via a conceptually framed, computer - adapted text, while students in the control group were taught the same content using the district adopted textbook.
Building upon identified effective learning strategies, direct instruction procedures, and principles of effective instructional design, the case is presented for the use of hypermedia in helping students with learning disabilities to improve their mathematics problem - solving abilities.
This study, which focuses on three districts in New York State, uses interviews with the districts» and schools» personnel and documents from the state's and districts» websites to examine practices for identifying learning disabilities among students who are English language learners and the...
With a multitiered instructional framework, schools identify students at risk for poor learning outcomes through universal screening, including those who may have a specific learning disability.
For information about the work of AppleTree Early Learning PCS to fulfill the Child Find Policy that includes identifying, locating and evaluating AppleTree students with disabilities, read this document.
Students newly identified with a learning disability are likely to need immediate accommodation.
No definitive processes exist for identifying English learner (EL) students with learning disabilities and determining the best academic supports for them.
Worked with students to identify learning disabilities and determine programming needs.
Differentiate instruction for students with a variety of identified needs, including giftedness, ADHD, autism, anxiety, and language - based learning disabilities
Successfully identified students with a specific learning disabilities using very detailed data collection / analysis / strategy implementation which led to the creation of IEPs to accommodate the students» learning needs
SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS • Elevated students» class participation level by 60 % through effective counseling and implementation of student motivational strategies • Conducted the annual student's day for grade 4 successfully in the absence of the teacher • Identified a special needs child with multiple learning disabilities and referred him for further assessment and support timely • Earned the best classroom assistant award thrice
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