GACE Special Education General Curriculum/Elementary Education (703) case studies
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GACE Special Education General Curriculum/Elementary Education (703) is a Georgia certification assessment for candidates who want to teach elementary-aged students with disabilities in a general curriculum setting. It combines two bodies of knowledge: the professional practice of special education and the elementary content a teacher must be able to adapt. The GACE Special Education General Curriculum/Elementary Education (703) case studies are 5 cases and about 3,764 words.
1Inclusion Decision for a Student With Significant Support Needs
Malik is a 9-year-old fourth grader with Down syndrome who uses a speech-generating tablet and knows approximately 15 sight words. His current IEP places him in general education for 40% of the day and in a resource room for 60%, including daily small-group phonics.
827 words, about 4 min2Referral Decision for a Multilingual Second Grader
Sofía is a second grader whose home language is Spanish and who has received English-medium instruction for two years. Fall screening shows oral reading fluency of 28 words correct per minute, below the district benchmark of 50, and 32 of 40 letter sounds correct.
753 words, about 4 min3Decoding Intervention for a Third Grader With Dyslexia
Elena is an eight-year-old third grader who reads grade-level passages at 42 words correct per minute with 90% accuracy. Her errors cluster on consonant blends, vowel teams such as /ai/ and /ea/, and two-syllable words; she often reads 'gril' for 'girl' and 'beach' for 'bench.' Her comprehension is 40% when she reads silently but 75% when the same passage is read aloud.
739 words, about 4 min4Fractions and Math Anxiety in Fifth Grade
Devon is a fifth grader with a specific learning disability in mathematics. He avoids math, erases frequently, and says, 'I'm dumb at math.' He can add fractions with like denominators when he draws fraction bars, but on a recent probe he wrote 1/2 + 1/3 = 2/5 and explained, 'You add the tops and the bottoms.' He cannot yet compare 3/4 and 5/6, saying 5/6 is smaller because sixths are small.
739 words, about 4 min5Behavior Support During Independent Work
Jamal is a 10-year-old fourth grader with ADHD and autism who attends a general education class of 26 students. During a 20-minute independent math block, he averages six to eight verbal outbursts, leaves his seat five times, and completes about 30% of the assigned problems.
706 words, about 4 min