Across
- 4. language programs that maintain the first language until students acquire sufficient English to succeed in English-only classrooms.
- 7. the different cultures encountered in classrooms and how these cultural differences influence learning.
- 11. communication deficits, impaired social relationships and skills and often associated with highly ritualized and unusual behaviors.
- 15. an individually prescribed instructional plan collaboratively devised by special education and general education teachers, resource professionals, and parents (and sometimes the student).
- 17. a theory that suggests that over-all intelligence is composed of either relatively independent dimensions.
- 19. a method of identifying a learning disability that focuses on the specific classroom instructional adaptations teachers use and their success.
- 20. the practice of moving students with exceptionalities away from segregated services and into general education classrooms, sometimes for selected activities only.
Down
- 1. a person’s ancestry; the way individuals identify themselves with the nation they or their ancestors came from.
- 2. approach to classroom management that acknowledges and capitalizes on cultural diversity.
- 3. discrimination based on gender that limits the growth possibilities of either boys or girls.
- 5. students’ personal approaches to learning, problem solving, and processing information.
- 6. individual differences due to differing rates of a child’s development progression that may need instructional intervention.
- 8. learning or emotional needs that result in students’ requiring special help to succeed and reach their full potential.
- 9. the knowledge, attitudes, values, customs, and behavior patterns that characterize a social group.
- 10. societal differences in expectations and believes about appropriate roles and behaviors of the two sexes.
- 12. students at the upper end of the ability continuum who need special services to reach their full potential.
- 13. a process teachers use to gather data and make decisions about progress in student learning and development.
- 14. a wide variety of language programs emphasizing rapid transition to English through content-area instructions with no efforts to maintain students’ native language.
- 16. the display of serious and persistent age-inappropriate behaviors that result in social conflict, personal unhappiness, or school failure.
- 18. language programs that emphasize a rapid transition to English by exclusive use of the English language.