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Multicultural education
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Aims to change educational institutions and curricula so they will provide equal educational opportunities to students regardless of their gender, social class, ethnicity, race, disability, or other cultural identity
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Subculture
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A culture that is associated with or part of a larger culture; a culture that is not the entire culture of a nation or other entity. Sometimes called "microculture," but a subculture is not necessarily small or a minority of a larger culture
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Screening
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Quick measures administered to determine who may need further assessment
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Response to intervention (RTI)
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A way of determining whether a student has a learning disability; increasingly intensive levels of instructional intervention are delivered; and if the student does not succeed at some point, he or she is determined to have a learning disability or is referred for special education services.
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Curriculum-based measurement
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A formative evaluation method designed to evaluate performance in the curriculum to which students are exposed; usually involves giving students a small sample of items from the curriculum in use in their schools; proponents argue that CBM is preferable to comparing students with national norms or using tests that do not reflect the curriculum content learned by the students
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Native-language emphasis
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An approach to teaching language-minority pupils in which the students native language is used for most of the day and English is taught as a separate subject
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Classwide peer tutoring
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An instructional procedure in which all students in the class are involved in tutoring and being tutored by classmates on specific skills as directed by their teacher
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Sheltered-English approach
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A method in which language-minority students are taught their subjects in English at a level that is modified constantly according to individuals needs
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Scaffolded instruction
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A cognitive approach to instruction in which the teacher provides temporary structure or support while students are learning a task; the support is gradually removed as the students are able to perform the task independently
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Mnemonics
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Techniques that aid memory, such as using rhymes, songs, or visual images to remember information
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Reciprocal teaching
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A method in which students and teachers are involved in a dialogue to facilitate learning
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Cooperative learning
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A teaching approach in which the teacher places students with heterogeneous abilities (for example, some might have disabilities) together to work on assignments
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