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Special education
1. Special education is the education of students with special needs in a way that addresses the students' individual differences and needs. Ideally, this process involves the individually planned and systematically monitored arrangement of teaching procedures, adapted equipment and materials, accessible settings, and other interventions designed to help learners with special needs achieve a higher level of personal self-sufficiency and success in school and community that would be available if the student were only given access to a typical classroom education.
2. Common special needs include challenges with learning, communication challenges, emotional and behavioral disorders, physical disabilities, and developmental disorders. Students with these kinds of special needs are likely to benefit from additional educational services such as different approaches to teaching, use of technology, a specifically adapted teaching area, or resource room.
3. Intellectual giftedness is a difference in learning and can also benefit from specialized teaching techniques or different educational programs, but the term «special education» is generally used to specifically indicate instruction of students whose special needs reduce their ability to learn independently or in an ordinary classroom, and gifted education is handled separately.
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Teaching to the test is an educational program of preparing students for successful executing standardized tests possessing more negative than positive sides.
Teaching to the test is an educational practice frequently used for skill-based learning which consists in teaching information and then giving a test over the information.
Teachers don’t support teaching to the test as they have to limit curriculum to a certain range of knowledge or skills to improve their students’ performance on the tests.
Teaching to the test has a lot of drawbacks preventing students a holistic understanding of the subject matter and development of creative and abstract-thinking skills.