I’m going to write a little bit about my experience as an autistic special education teacher. My experience is not representative of all autistic people. The saying “If you’ve met one person diagnosed with autism, you’ve met one person diagnosed with autism.”
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Vandaag hebben we een charmante 35mm stalen dress watch van Girard Perregaux, een van de oudste nog bestaande horlogefabrikanten, die al sinds 1791 bestaat! Dit model heet "Richeville" en werd slechts een paar jaar in de jaren 60 gemaakt. Zoals het verhaal gaat, is de reden waarom GP stopte met het gebruiken van deze Richeville-naam te wijten aan het Amerikaanse gezegde "Coming from Richville", wat niet erg positief is, MAAR GP begon het model weer nieuw leven in te blazen! Dit horloge heeft een prachtige zilveren soleil-wijzerplaat met ongebruikelijke indexen op 6 en 9 en een datumvenster op 3 uur zonder lume. Het horloge wordt aangedreven door een automatisch GP-uurwerk en is volledig gecontroleerd en gereguleerd door onze horlogemaker. Het horloge wordt geleverd met de gefotografeerde band. Deze Richeville is een verfijnde, ingetogen dress watch die boekdelen spreekt over uw verfijnde smaak. Mis het niet! Specificaties: - Girard Perregaux “Richeville “ ref 8445 - 35 mm stalen kast - Datumfunctie, funky indexen - Automatisch GP Gyromatic-uurwerk - Zilveren sunburst wijzerplaat met datumfunctie - Uurwerk serienummer 321xxxx daterend uit de jaren 60 - Bulangandsons leren band - Volledig gecontroleerd door onze horlogemaker - Eén jaar mechanische garantie - Gratis wereldwijde Fedex Priority-verzending Dit horloge is gecertificeerd bij Certifiwatch onder registratienummer CF-0104559
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At Chem Ed 2015, a teacher from Texas showed me this quick and dirty way to do a distillation that the kids can do. I forgot her name. "Lady from Texas", let me just say "thank you". If you are reading this, please shoot me an email and I will be more than happy to give you credit. It worked really well.
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Click on the picture for free download from TpT.I've been thinking a lot about formative assessments lately. Formative assessments are all about gathering information from your students - during inst
Display these free posters in your room as you learn about or review the 5 senses! A simple sentence explains what the sense is used for and the body part that is used. Posters come in 2 sizes: -full page -half page If you love this free resource, make sure to check out: 5 Senses Write the Room 5 Senses Interactive Notebook
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Over the last couple days, I have shown you my mid-level and advanced level morning binders. Today I will show you pictures of what one of my beginner-level binders looks like. Again, it covers the same topics...just involves more matching and less answering of questions. The student used to match all the letters in his first and last name, but we were able to backwards fade out the letters, so he is now spelling his name mostly on his own. Matching Days of the week and months of the year. Fluency Timing. This student is just beginning to say a few words. These are the words he says most often (most are his preferred items). We set the timer for 30 seconds, and he tries to label as many pictures as he can. The student matches the season, then pulls down the current season and places it in the blank box. Here, the student sorts pictures of sunny weather vs. rainy weather. This can be difficult for some students even at the beginner level. Too make this simpler, you can have the students match the pictures in each category instead of sort them. Hope these binder pictures gave you some good ideas. My kids complete them every day and for some reason, don't seem to get sick of them. We do, however, change them throughout the year as students master a page or require additional/more challenging work. I store all my extra pages in a big binder, so I can easily switch up the worksheets when needed.
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A blog about autism resources and support from a special ed teacher with first-hand experience.
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Continuing on my classroom tour....today I will show you my new, and improved, morning group! I received A LOT of new students this year (and I got to keep some of my oldies as well!!). I also have my largest class size year (13 STudENTS!!). Most of my new students need a very structured morning group and I need to cover a lot of the basics with them. So, this year, instead of having my entire class participate in morning group together, I split them into 2 groups. During my beginner group, I have a structured group which goes over social skills, calendar, weather, as well as some academic and functional skills. Here is a picture of our morning group schedule. As I complete each item, I make a check mark beside it on the dry-erase board. We go over all of the items on the schedule first. Then, when we are finished, students complete their individualized binders which cover the same material. In years past, I have allowed students complete their binders during the group time to keep their hands busy and occupied. My group this year can sit and wait pretty nicely, so I like it if they actually participate in the group work and then do the independent work after. Just like last year, we start with greetings. For now, I am working on having students respond (either a wave or saying "hi" after I say hi to them. Next up, we will work on saying hi to one another...and eventually, we will talk about things like "what did you do this weekend?" "what did you have for dinner last night?" etc. (I CAN'T WAIT! Saying "hi" every day is getting a bit boring! However, we went from no one responding to everyone responding within a month...so progress is progress!) Next, we do attendance where the kids practice raising their hands and/or saying "here" when their name is called. I think is important for our kids to work on, because it involves learning how to respond to your own name. Next up, is social time. We have a question of the week (this week is "What's your favorite food?"). Each student takes a turn coming up to the board and putting their name under their choice. Right now, we are just working on identifying our favorites. Eventually, kids will interact with one another during this activity to make it more social. Next up is calendar and weather. Here are before and after pictures of what they look like. Calendar "BEFORE" Calendar "AFTER" Weather "BEFORE" Weather "AFTER" My calendar and weather visuals are available on TPT here. Next, we have "Practice." This is something new this year. I noticed that a lot of my students are struggling with identifying numbers and letters, so we are doing daily practice. My students all have to follow along with their fingers and say (or just point for my non-verbal learners) to the name of the numbers/letters. I am hoping that this daily exposure will help get my students more familiar with letter and number names. Then, we have "Binders." This is where students practice the same skills from morning group on their own. I also include some additional work on skills based on IEP goals. I have posted most of these picture before in other posts, so I will include them at the end of this post. I did revise some of the sheets to more closely align to what is on the board. Once this work is finished, I have the kids sit and wait (see the visual cue below) before we start our journals. For now, I have moved away from our traditional journals of writing sentences and/or paragraphs about a topic. With this year's group, we are really focusing on numbers and letters. So, I have them complete a number and letter journal page each day. Here is a sample of a number journal page. And here is a sample of a letter journal page. This whole morning group process takes about 30 minutes to complete. When we are done, my kids check their schedules and move onto a set of rotations through stations in groups of 2 kids. Meanwhile, I run on over to my second morning group! This morning group is made up of some of my veteran students and more advanced students. We use this time to work on guided reading. When we are finished with guided reading, my students independently complete their more advanced binder pages on calendar/weather related skills. I will be posting more on what we are doing in this group later this year! As promised, here are the samples of my binder pages. I did re-arrange some of them so that they more closely mirror what is on the board to aid in my students completing them independently. I have also create a variety of levels of each sheet. Each student has a binder tailored to their individual needs and level. I do have a little girl who is visually impaired this year...she is unable to complete these type of binder pages with such small pictures, so I am working on putting together a larger version for her! Stay tuned for more on that! Easy Calendar Page Hard Calendar Page Easy Weather Page (Velcro) Easy Weather Page (circle) Hard Weather Page Circle the emotion you are feeling each day. Dressing the boy (I also have a girl) for "winter" vs "summer." The following 3 activities are included in my "HW Binder" on Teachers Pay Teachers. Identifying the colors of your clothes. Identifying coins names and values. Phew...that was another long post! More classroom tour posts to come!
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When we think back to our childhood, we recall fond memories of playing outside, often with siblings or friends and often engaging in pretend or imaginative play. These memories stick with us for a reason as outdoor play really is crucial to child development. Maybe we learned something while
