Looking for classroom schedule inspiration? Check out the daily schedule in my intermediate elementary self-contained classroom!
Need some new center ideas for your upper elementary special education class? Check out this post for some great ideas!
Curated list of resources you can use at home or in the classroom to foster important STEM skills with your students with disabilites. Learn more here.
Let’s take a look at some activities included in the Lola Goes to School special education book companion!
Take a peek inside 7 special education sample schedules to get some schedule ideas for your own special education classroom!
Increase student independence and learning in your special education classroom with community helper vehicle task boxes!
5 activities included in the The Bus for Us Book Companion that are great to pair with this read aloud in your special ed classroom.
Have you been curious about how to set up your elementary autistic support classroom? Join me as I give you a
Are you prepared for teaching Extended School Year this summer?! Here are 4 tips you NEED to know for teaching ESY!
Have you been curious about how to set up your elementary autistic support classroom? Join me as I give you a
Have you been curious about how to set up your elementary autistic support classroom? Join me as I give you a
Have you been curious about how to set up your elementary autistic support classroom? Join me as I give you a
As the ONLY special education teacher in my building, I ALWAYS wanted to get a peek inside other classrooms. Get a peek inside 10 classroom tours!
What do you do as a special ed. teacher when a student with autism refuses to work? It depends on the function of the behavior! Learn the 12 Best Strategies!
As the ONLY special education teacher in my building, I ALWAYS wanted to get a peek inside other classrooms. Get a peek inside 10 classroom tours!
One year of teaching, I had a student who LOVED science experiments… but I found that a lot of the resources out there had TOO many steps and TOO many words for my type of classroom. I created these visual experiments JUST like my visual cooking recipes– simple, concise, and students centered! Here’s a look […]
Sharing my favorite hands on back to school September crafts for your self-contained classroom that contain visual directions!
Learn all about the types of student schedules I use in my classroom: first-then, 1-2-3-choice, vertical, and checklist schedules.
Color coding your special ed classroom can be a game changer for your organization. I can teach you how to color code your classroom.
Different errorless learning activities for your special education classroom. Errorless learning is great for independent practice.
Special Ed Data using Google Forms - check out these user-friendly tips and tricks for busy special educators to streamline IEP tracking and student progress monitoring!
Take a peek inside 9 unique special education classroom setups! Learn how each teacher sets up her classroom!
Discover how the Magic Milk Science Experiment engages special education students in hands-on learning and grab our free download!
Welcome to my K-2 Classroom Tour! I am a k-2 self contained autism teacher. Come inside and see what a day in my classroom looks like!
Free token boards for Autism Special Ed classroom. Get started with this behavior system today with a printable reward system that is totally FREE!
A set of assessment rubrics that can be used for Preschool or lower elementary special education. Rubrics for fine motor skills, interaction, math concepts, and letter/literacy. Useful tools for progress monitoring. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unporte...
Essential Skills is a self -contained classroom for students with disabilities kindergarten-sixth grade in a public Elementary School.
Are you teaching ESY (Extended School Year) this year? I am teaching ESY this year, and I have a few tips for creating a simple ESY routine.
Centers are my best friend in my self-contained special education classroom. I have 3 math centers I use all year long.
Starting a task box center and system in your special education classroom is a way to increase student independence and free up staff.
As special education teachers, we need many things. But this is a list of 25+ Special Ed Must-Haves that we need to teach and survive!
Editable Digital + Printable Data Forms for Special Ed | Data sheets are a special education teacher's best friend. This bundle of editable, printable and digital data forms is the perfect addition to any special education classroom. What is included? You’ll find printable data sheets for/on: • IEP Goal Monitoring • Objectives Calendar • Monthly Goal Data • Reading Fluency • Reading Mastery Log • Reading Comprehension • Story Sequencing • Letter Identification • Letter Sound • Letter Formation • Spelling Data • Reading + Writing Goals • Dolch Sight Words (Pre-Primer to Third) • Fry Sight Words (First 100-500) • Word Progress • Words to Learn All printable data sheets are editable in PowerPoint. Printable PDF included. 32 total printable data sheets included. You’ll find digital data sheets for/on: •Dolch Words (Pre-Primer to Third) • Fry Words (First 100-500) • Letter Formation • Letter Identification • Letter Sound • Reading Comprehension • Reading Fluency • Reading Goals (general) • Reading Mastery Log • Spelling Data • Story Sequencing • Word Progress • Words to Learn • Writing Goals (general) All digital Google Form data sheets are editable. 25 digital data forms included. Looking for more data forms? The printable data sheets can also be found in this larger bundle. The digital data forms can also be found in this larger bundle. Some of the printable data forms may also be found in the IEP Binders. Looking for more resources for data collection? Shop all data collection resources here. Connect with me: • Newsletter • Blog • Facebook • Instagram • Pinterest • Don't forget about the green ★ to follow my store to get notifications of new resources and freebies! Thanks for Looking and Happy Teaching!
STEM in a special ed classroom is a huge possibility. Take a look inside my classroom to see how we make it work, what we use, and more!
THE ABC'S of Special Education Classroom Scheduling Scheduling in a special education classroom (next to organization) is one of the most important things. It can get a little complicated, but stick around and lets walk through it together. I spent many years being the only special education teacher at a small neighborhood school. I had no one to bounce ideas off or share ideas. I only wish the internet was available then ( yes, I've been around that long) so I could see what others were doing . So stick around and let me share a little of how I schedule my classroom. It is my hope that some of what I do can help you or give you an idea of ways to make it easier for you. Step-by-step and piece by piece it will come together. There are so many different factors to consider when scheduling in a self-contained special education classroom but we will consider just the basic starting points in this post. Assemble all your information regarding what your students needs are. Read your students IEPs to get their goals and objectives. Tracking the students progress throughout the year is imperative so the first thing is to look at goals and objectives for each student. Ask yourself: Where am I going to start with each student? What is my next step academically and behaviorally as well as in the areas of social skills, independent functioning and health issues(if any)? What related services do your students receive? Do your students receive Occupational Therapy, Speech/Language Therapy, Physical Therapy? What special activities such Art, Music, Computer do your student attend? And of course, don't forget Lunch and P.E. Once you have all your information about your day (or as close as you can get), move on to the next step. I use 2 primary schedules to map out my classroom information each year. One way that I started in the last few years was to take all the components of the schedule and prior to putting it on paper, I used post it notes on a white board to get the schedule to a manageable point. Manageable means until I could understand it in my head! Using the postit notes seems a little old fashioned for tech- savvy teach but it worked since you could see the whole schedule or all the schedules at one glance and move things around to try them out until your hearts content. With the postit notes, I could still Color code. Color coding for my classroom makes me calm! Then when it was more manageable (in MY mind) a.k.a the schedule was about 80% done I would do it in excel or in a chart in Word. #1 SCHEDULE STUDENTS STATION TIMES The first is a CENTER ROTATION schedule of when activities are held during the day and what station each student goes to. For example, Student 1 goes to Reading Station from 8:45-9:00 and Student 2 goes from 9:00-9:15. With times down the left side in increments of 15 minutes and student names across the top. I complete this schedule first in order to make certain every student is assigned each station and there are no overlaps. #2 STAFF SUPERVISION ASSIGNMENTS This chart tells which staff member works with which student(s) at what time. With this chart I can make sure all student have supervision, Paraprofessionals have their breaks and all areas of the classroom are covered. I prefer to use color coded schedules myself as the color gives me one more way to organize my thinkings and see the classroom organization at one glance. I created an IEP goals/objective form, that my paraprofessionals and I use to track the student's progress. It lists the goals and objectives down the left side of the chart and a place to record the data for each; whether that is trials correct or percentages. I was lucky for the last couple of years to have a fairly stable class in which 95% of the students returned to me each year, so I was aware of their skill sets, their goals and objective as well as their limitations from the day they walked back into my room, yet I still made sure I had these charts. I have included both color and black and white forms in the pack. Below you'll find a link to several of these forms that I've used in the past. I have left them totally editable in MS WORD format so you can modify them to make them your own. Thanks to Kim Geswein fonts. Continue your travels to the next Summer Bloghop site by clicking below. Keep traveling on our Bloghop. Click above to go to Kinder Sped Adventures Thanks for stopping by. See you next time!
Special Education Acronyms and Terms - a free handout with the most commonly used acronyms in special ed.
IEP goal bins will help you keep your students' goals and materials organized so you can focus on what's important: the students.
If you are anything like me, the first 10 days are a struggle. You have so many new ideas for the new year, so many things you want to implement, and you feel pressure to start on the very first day. Here’s my number one tip: DON’T. Just don’t. In special education, and more specifically […]
Classroom schedules are one of the most difficult things a special educator has to do. See how I use schedules in my elementary AS classroom!
Free pizza fractions task box for special education classrooms! Learn how to use task boxes in your classroom.
Learn about science curriculum created for self-contained special education classrooms by a real special education teacher!
Have you been curious about how to set up your elementary autistic support classroom? Join me as I give you a
