Teaching kids with autism may mean working with nonverbal students. Here are 9 strategies for effectively working with students with severe nonverbal autism.
Upper elementary classroom tips and ideas with a focus on classroom management, student engagement, & cooperative learning.
Unwanted talking is near the top of the list of teacher frustrations. In this article, learn the actual strategies to finally get rid of it for good.
Learn which strategies to use with students who are engaging in escape or task avoidance behaviors in special education classes.
Classroom management and thinking through how my classroom will run is more important than the decorations and arrangement! Do you agree? My classroom has several different strategies set up; and as needed, I will adjust accordingly as my students arrive and I learn their needs. Today, I have 8 Classroom Management Tips for you to […]
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Classroom management is one of the key components of effective teaching. Strategies & ideas for an effective classroom management system.
Today I'll be sharing why I think substitute binders are so important and what information you should include in your "sub tub."
Resources and ideas for teachers and caregivers of learners with severe, profound, intensive, significant, complex or multiple special needs.
Paper Bag Dramatics: A fun activity for Team Building and Developing Community. Here's an idea that can be used just about anywhere at any time. It encourages groups to solve problems, think creatively, and work as a team.
Have you ever had to use a district curriculum that doesn’t really fit the levels or needs of your special needs student? It can be hard to make a purchased program work for our students, but it IS possible! To do so, though, we need to be flexible and creative….We totally rock flexible and creative, […]
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!
Are you struggling to meet the needs of all your learners? Learn how to differentiate for EVERY student without spending hours prepping!
Want more teaching time and less monitoring behavior? This Classroom Behavior Management strategy is for you!
I teach a 1st through 4th self-contained, mod/severe, special day class. I am going to highlight some of the key elements in my classroom.
The first two weeks in a special ed classroom are more than academics. Ideas on what to teach, what to practice, and what you should be doing.
Wow!!! I don't know about you, but the past few weeks have been CRAZY!!!!! I know we havn't blogged much, but you know how it is.....classr...
Listen to this Special Ed Podcast with 15 great ideas for Functional Centers for students with Intellectual Disabilities and Autism in High School. Read more and subscribe today!
Get helpful tips for how to manage data folders in the primary classroom. Download the free student data folders kit to get started!
Teaching fractions with hands-on manipulatives and activities helps students develop a conceptual understanding that will endure.
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!
I have been CRAZY excited to share my classroom with ya'll this year. This is my third year in this classroom, and I'm in love with how it turned out it this school year. I kept a lot of the same centers from last year, and added a few new fun ones (Magnet Center,
Ready to bring STEM to your classroom, but not sure where to start? This post outlines 10 MUST HAVE STEM materials for your classroom.
Resources and ideas for teachers and caregivers of learners with severe, profound, intensive, significant, complex or multiple special needs.
My first year of teaching, I went through, I kid you not, over 100 pencils in the first few months of school. And I had TEN students!
Is this your first year teaching? Maybe it's just your first year teaching in a self-contained Severe-Profound/Multi Classroom.
For our learners who need to work on foundational learning skills, such as simple matching, I have always love creating hands on task boxes put-in tasks and color sorting tasks. My classroom closet always looked like it could be featured on an episode of hoarders. I kept every shoe box, coffee container, baby jar, and
In today's post, I'll share ideas for teaching inferring through a gradual release of responsibility. Make sure to read all the way through the post, because there are several different freebies you can download and use right away!
14 Brilliant Ways to Quiet a Noisy Class! Check out these behavior management strategies for classroom management!
Classroom jobs can be hectic and hard to keep up with. Here's a simple solution for easy, headache-free classroom jobs!
This post originally appeared as a guest post for Smart Speech Therapy, LLC . I am reposting because I am bringing you a week dedicated to...
As many of you may know, my class has a variety of levels and learners.
Beowulf is a challenging text: it's long, dense, and old. With these strategies, you can make this text relevant for all students!
Find challenging Torrance practice tests and sample questions on our site. Use our interactive Digital Tutor and board games to boost your child's score!
Be prepared for lock downs, fire drills, field trips, or any other classroom evacuation with an emergency backpack. Download the free emergency backpack checklist to be prepared for anything!
Beowulf is a challenging text: it's long, dense, and old. With these strategies, you can make this text relevant for all students!
Teaching area and perimeter in your upper elementary math class? This blog post shares a collection of ideas for teaching area and perimeter!
When you teach in a multiple disabilities classroom, there is often a lot of equipment in a multiple disabilities classroom
Discover engaging morning meeting activities for kindergarten, (+ ideas for virtual learning). Have fun building your classroom community!
Challenge your young learners to use these colorful cups, tubes, and balls to build their creations on the light table. It's art; it's engineering; it's fun!
In our Lower Elementary classroom, we utilize student work plans. These are individualized work assignments, given to each child each week. Several of the activities listed on the sheet are whole group lessons or cultural extensions, but the Montessori math and language activities are unique to each child. Each child has a clipboard that is […]
