LEP
Limited English Proficiency
ELPS
English Language Proficiency Standards
ELL
English Language Learner
SPED
Special
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ARD
Admission, Review, Dismissal
IEP
Individualized Education Program
MODS
Modifications
504
Accommodations provided to students who do not respond to remediation.
Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development
A theory made up of sensorimotor period, preoperational period, concrete operations, and formal operations expressed by Jean Piaget
Stages of Play Development
Unoccupied Play
Solitary (Independent Play)
Onlooker Play
Parallel Play
Associative Play
Cooperative Play
unoccupied play
when the child is not playing, just observing. A child may be standing in one spot or performing random movements
solitary play
When the child is alone and maintains the focus of its activity. Such a child is uninterested in or is unaware of what others are doing. More common in younger children 2-3 years.
Onlooker Play
When the child watches other at play but does not engage in it. The child may engage in forms of social interaction, such as on about the play, without actually joining the activity. This type of activity is also more common in younger children.
Parallel Play
Adjacent Play or Social Coaction. When the child plays separately from others but close to them and mimicking their actions. This type of play is seen as a transitory stage from a socially immature solitary and onlooker type of play to a more socially mature associative and cooperative type of play.
Associative Play
When the child is interested in the people playing but not in coordinating their activities with those people, or when there is no organized activity at all. There is a substantial amount of interaction involved, but the activities are not in sync.
Cooperative Play
When a child is interested both in the people playing and in the activity they are doing. The activity is organized, and participants have assigned roles. There is also increased self-identification with a group, and a group identifies may emerge. It requires social maturity and more advanced organization skills. Examples would be dramatic play activities with roles, like playing school or a game with rules such as freeze tag.
Bloom's Taxonomy
knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation
TELPAS
Texas English language Proficiency Assessment System.
The legislation requires that ELL'S be assessed yearly in all language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing.
Students are hoped to jump once a year to the next stage.
Vertical Alignment
Kindergarten prepares you for first, first for the second, second for third, and so on and so fourth. [Show Less]