It's only a few days late, but my room is as ready as it's going to be! It took a TON of work to move it cross country, repurchase and remak...
There’s never been a better or more crucial time to implement mindfulness practices into middle school classrooms, says author-consultant Dr. Thomas Armstrong.
Get all of your students engaged during your morning routine, and plan the first hour of your day only once. Differentiated ideas for any teacher.
A big part of what we do with children is teach them safe and appropriate ways to cope and express themselves. We aren’t born knowing how to walk and we also aren’t born knowing how to …
Three must-have visuals for the special education classroom! Set your students up for success by teaching them the major life skill!
Do you struggle with groupings and organizing instruction that meets the needs of all of your students? We tend to get students with a wide range of needs and levels in special education classrooms. It can be a real challenge to organize groupings and meet everyone’s needs. Here are 3 different types of instruction I ... Read More about Instruction Options in Special Education Classrooms
Teaching self contained is a challenging but very important job! Are you up to it? Most of the time, and especially in my program, special education courses are all lumped together. They rarely focus on self contained, or more severe students. This usually leaves teachers scouring the internet or coming up with everything from scratch! […]
Happy DNA Day! Below are 15 activities to teach kids about DNA, genetics, and heredity. Each of these ideas are free and have worksheets, printables, or easy lesson/activity ideas that can generall…
Morning meetings are extremely beneficial for our students in special education! Here are 3 reasons you need a morning meeting!
This two or three day lesson puts kids in the critical thinking mode from the start. They are paired up (could be solo) to decide, as the hospital administrator, who in the small town with get to use the dialysis machine. Life and death choices! Politics, Values, Money, it has it all. They not o...
Free editable pacing guide to plan and organize the school year with your curriculum. Great for any grade!
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My students use morning binders during our morning meeting and throughout our academic portion of the morning. I love using binders because I can personalize and individualize each binder according to my students needs.
Science explains the connection between poverty and performance – it is key to understanding the problem and also key to the solution.
Your students’ topic is, “KINDNESS.” It’s important for educators to create a kindness culture in the classroom. After discussing kindness, random acts of kindness, compliments, respect, anti-bullying, decision making, tolerance, caring, helping others, and including others – guide your students in the brainstorming process. I love when students take inspiration from their own lives and include […]
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Learning centers, also known as stations at the secondary level, are ideal activities to use to bring movement into your middle school or high school classroom. Find out how to implement stations on your first day of school, as you review key ideas or terms, and as a way to preview texts.
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Why do students not do the reading assignment (or any assignment)? Well, a variety of reasons. Assignment is not interesting to them. Assignment is not
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Students that are classified as having an emotional and behavioral disorder (EBD) perform poorly both academically and behaviorally, and their performance usually does not to improve over time. There is a need to understand the effect of learning environments on the academic achievement and self-concept of this population. In this quantitative, archival study, academic achievement and self-concept scores were compared for middle-school students with EBD based on whether the students had been placed into a self-contained learning environment (SCLE) or a mainstreamed least restrictive environment (MLRE). Archived scores for academic achievement and self-concept were evaluated for students in an urban school district in South Carolina with highly qualified special-education staff members. Academic achievement scores and self-concept scores for 2007 were compared between the two groups, with 2005 scores used as a baseline.
These fun ABC coloring pages will help them get a head start on learning.
Does your teen know these essential life skills?
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A zen space gives your students a place to unwind, relax, regroup, and calm themselves before returning to regular classroom work.
