Let’s keep this blog hop party going! Kyle from Kinder SPED Adventures organized this awesome blog hop. This week we’re talking about classroom setup. The most important thing I think about when setting up my classroom is what activity areas do we need to set up? Based on the schedule I made, I know I ... Read More about SPED Summer Bloghop! Week 2: Classroom Setup
Learn every step of classroom setup, must have resources, and materials needed to setup your self-contained classroom. Peek inside my classroom!
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This is a must have product for teachers working within a self contained Emotionally Behavioral Disorder classroom (EBD).This product gives you all the required look-forsin an EBD classroom and the materials needed to set up your classroom. This system is easy to use and will definitely help with classroom and behavior management within your classroom. It is a positive reinforcement system that allows students the opportunity to earn extra privileges. Included in this product are: *Point Sheet *Self Monitoring Sheet *Elementary reinforcers *Secondary reinforcers *EBD positive tool for the classroom *Level referral *Classroom rule poster *Level system poster *Hierarchy of consequences poster *Point hierarchy for target behaviors *Bonus incentive poster *Automatic level drop poster *Proactive behavior management strategies *Description of how to use the level system and point sheets *Personal responsibility sheet * 2 samples of a visual level system graph (poster) where students can visually see what level they are on This product can be used by: *Elementary special education teachers *Secondary special education teachers *Administrators *Counselors Use this product to set up and continue to reinforce positive behavior throughout the school year. Your students will love the structure and easiness of use.
Use these watercolor task box labels to add structure to your independent work in special education classrooms. Visual schedules will help your students complete station work without constant prompting from staff! Savings Alert! This is part of a larger bundle. Check it out here and get all of my visual supports at a discount! Includes: 40 number cards 26 uppercase letter cards 26 lowercase letter cards 70 shape cards (10 shapes in 7 colors) 162 corresponding "match points" to attach to your tasks or shelves 3, 4, and 5 step schedules strips (both vertical and horizontal) Please note: This is a digital download. You will download, print, and prep as needed. No physical items will be sent to you.
It is finally here: back to school time…in person! This also means it is classroom setup time. Let’s take a tour of my Socially Distanced Classroom Setup: K-2 STU (Structured Teaching Unit) classroom. In this blog post, you will learn about how I set up student stations, schedules for students and staff, and data collection. […]
Ideas for how to use AAC devices and core boards with core vocabulary in a special education classroom setting. Learn more at Mrs. D's Corner.
Want to start the school year off right? Check out this guide on autism classroom setup with tips, ideas, and a system to make this year the best ever!
Happy Halloween ladies and gents! I’m so stoked to join up with some of my favorite SPED bloggers to bring you our Tricks and Treats Blog Hop! I’m going to share one of my favorite SPED hacks with you today. If you haven’t checked out some of my other hacks, you totally should. I am ... Read More about SPED Tricks and Treats Blog Hop!
I have been so excited to bring this to you! About two weeks ago, I got a new job, and have been NONSTOP busy ever since. Creating for my new students, setting up my new classroom and familiarizing myself with my new school has certainly kept me busy- but I am so excited to finally […]
Ideas for how to use AAC devices and core boards with core vocabulary in a special education classroom setting. Learn more at Mrs. D's Corner.
Sprinkling movement throughout the school day will help students maintain focus. There is a lot of good research about the increase of behaviors and ADD as more and more movement is cut out of the school day. Here are 3 ideas for adding it back into your schedule without compromising academic times. 1. Look at ... Read More about Incorporate Movement Into Your Schedule For Student Success
Learn every step of classroom setup, must have resources, and materials needed to setup your self-contained classroom. Peek inside my classroom!
If you have a calm down corner and need more emotional regulation strategies for anxiety coping skills, anger management, and other big emotions then these cards will be a great addition to your tool kit. Special education teachers, ABA therapists, and even parents will love this printable and editable resource. Your digital download will include: - 1 PDF - 20 printable cards - Link to Google Slides with editable version Print, cut, laminate, and use over and over again! Take a look at the thumbnails to see EXACTLY what you'll get before you purchase. Get yours today and thanks for supporting AllDayABA!
So, I just realized that I never posted my classroom pictures. Yes, school started in August and it is now almost February...better late than never? This is probably the first year that I am truly happy with the way my room turned out. Last year I was in Montana the week before school so I felt rushed to get things ready, and every year before that I've had to switch rooms, which is always chaos. Here is the finished product. Reading Area with a Dr. Seuss poster that I made. another view of the reading center. Reading Goal Bulletin Board with Chic-fil-A cow. As students get closer to their goal, they put a clothes-pin with their name on it on the ladder. Encouraging students to be "bucket-fillers"--give compliments. Not sure where this idea first came from, but a lot of teachers at my school do it with their classes. The buckets now have students' names on them. Stole this idea from pinterest. Grammar Island sentence. Our mascot is the marlins. After students read a book, they fill out a recommendation card for the board. Writing Center Agenda Board. It's a little different now. Calendar, "student center" (where they turn their papers in), and my desk. My favorite thing in the room. I've had this for a few years now. Pretty sure I first saw something similar to it in a book somewhere. I love it. cubbies with printables found on pinterest. Welcome to 3G! Ask me if my room is still this clean. When I left today, I couldn't even see the wood of my desk. Any of you educators have any teacher organizational tips??
Learn every step of classroom setup, must have resources, and materials needed to setup your self-contained classroom. Peek inside my classroom!
IEP goal bins will help you keep your students' goals and materials organized so you can focus on what's important: the students.
Here’s a huge secret: there are some choices of my early teaching career that I just cringe. I always had the drive, the compassion, and the caring demeanor. That’s always been there. However, I think it took me...
Happy 2014-2015 school year! Look at that, I found some time (and wine) to sit down and blog! I wanted to give a little "tour" and inside look of our classroom this year! As a teacher of students with moderate to intensive needs, it's always quite the puzzle putting together my room. I must say, this is definitely my favorite setup to date! Love love LOVE it! Before and after picture I posted to @myspeciallearners on IG. A lot of sweat and time put into that!! But always my favorite part of the process. :) So I go back to school in July and this is what I find: all of that? That's my stuff. All stacked down the hall outside my classroom. That was not fun. HOWEVER...it made classroom set up a little easier! In previous years I found myself just moving stuff around to place things in the room. This year I started with a blank canvas! This is what you see when you walk in my door. My classroom is divided up into multiple small areas. As a moderate to intensive needs teacher, much of my time working with students is 1:1 work. To decrease distractions, my students have their own "office" area. I have 7 students and 5 "offices" (1 student is slowly moving out of my classroom, and another came to me the day before school started, so she gets to share one for the sake of my sanity). Below is some more information about their office areas and the 1:1 work I do with them! Here is just one of my kiddos "office" areas. In here, you will find independent bins filled with work that is mastered. This is done with the TEACCH method during their independent work time. You can also find reinforcers such as first/then cards, schedules, calm down checklists, etc. Last year each student had their own rolling cart. However, I'm trying something new this year to help my sanity (why do I need a full set of time flashcards for each office?!?) and to make things a little easier. All of our rolling carts are now lined up, filled, and labeled. When I work 1:1 with a student, or if I have one of my paraprofessionals work with someone, we can just grab some sight words, flashcards, or counting manipulatives and take them to that student's office to get to work! Voila! When doing this 1:1 work, we obviously need to take some data. Again, last year each student had their data binder in their office area. However, some of their IEP goals are covered during whole group or small group time, so this makes grabbing and jotting down some data a little easier on me! Their binders are in the pink bins and then below are some lower leveled readers for students to read and/or take home in the evening! (I spent a LOT of time this summer organizing and labeling!) Here is our whole group area! This is my third year in this district and third year with a few of these kiddos and I must say, whole group was tough and honestly painful most days in the beginning. Over time, they have made so much progress that I've been able to incorporate multiple whole group and small group times into our schedule this year! AND! We are also using desks this year! Last year I had a huge kidney bean table (that I hated) and I am just loving the desks this year. I think this is such an important thing for my students, especially learning how to stay in your own space and look at your own work. The only issue so far (and it's still early, we're learning!) is keeping the things in our desk, IN our desk. Busy, busy hands going on here. We are working on Nutrition and the 5 food groups, Unique Learning, News2You, and some Starfall phonics right now in our small group and whole groups in this area! Busy bees. :) The desks are also making transitions SO much more manageable. Last year, we would come back from Art or Lunch and there would just be kiddos running everywhere. This year, each transition involves us sitting at our desk and waiting on instructions from the teacher. We are also able to do morning bell work while everyone gets situated first thing in the morning. You can see some morning work pictured above, ready to be completed before we do lunch count and morning group! Above are a couple more pictures of "areas" in my classroom. We have a computer area, play area (with a swing, finally!!!!), and sensory/quiet area. The quiet area is my new addition and favorite part of the new setup. We have some weighted vests, a weighted blanket, fidget toys, a trampoline, and some beanbags and books to help out with calm down or quiet times. So there it is! I love our classroom this year and am excited to see what this year has in store for me. :)
Let’s keep this blog hop party going! Kyle from Kinder SPED Adventures organized this awesome blog hop. This week we’re talking about classroom setup. The most important thing I think about when setting up my classroom is what activity areas do we need to set up? Based on the schedule I made, I know I ... Read More about SPED Summer Bloghop! Week 2: Classroom Setup
Practice vocational skills with these classroom jobs and on campus job ideas for students of various skill levels!
Learn every step of classroom setup, must have resources, and materials needed to setup your self-contained classroom. Peek inside my classroom!
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,
There are so many working parts in a self contained or Autism Unit. Read MORE on what you can do to survive and thrive in a self contained classroom!
Episode 57 of the ACR podcast includes 3 tips for improving adult language in the classroom for special education students.
Are you setting up your self-contained classroom and are wondering what to use as visual boundaries? Read more to learn about...
Do you struggle to find a system that makes it quick and easy to plan lessons? Here is a system that has made it so much easier to plan and gather all of the materials I need for my thematic unit lesson plans. One of the questions I hear most is how do you do ... Read More about Organization For Easy Planning
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Station Rotation in Autism Units and LIFE Skills are a must for any self contained room or classroom servicing students with disabilities. Read more now...
I work with the Multiple Disabilties population and this blog is about multiple disabilities classroom setup with covid-19 recommendations.
Find out how to create a morning meeting routine in kindergarten that will set your day up for success! Includes free morning meeting greetings.
Sorry I have been MIA for the past couple weeks...I guess the beginning of the school year got the better of me! But, now I am back and ready for some blogging! First up today, I wanted to show you my classroom layout as well as a brief explanation of each area in my classroom! Kids with autism thrive in a setting that is structured through utilizing visuals and schedules, but the physical layout of the classroom is important too! I try to divide each area by utilizing furniture (shelves, tables, desks, etc.). I also label each of these areas with the same pictures as my student schedules. This physical structure helps students understand "where" they need to be. I find that this physical structure helps keep kids from running away or roaming around the room. Since our kids our visual learners, we need to appeal to that sense in everything we do. You can potentially prevent problem behavior by providing a great deal of physical structure from the get-go. Some areas in my class are used for multiple types of activities, but the adult/routine stays the same at each station. For instance, I always am the adult at "teacher time"; the kids always come the same time of day to my station; however, we do complete a variety of activities depending on which IEP goal we are working on. Here are some brief descriptions of each area in my room: AM Group Area: Our morning circle which consists of going over the weather, calendar, social skills, and academic skills each day. We also use this area to store our schedules (on each student's desk). And, the kids gather here to sit and wait for transitions out of the room (recess/going home). Independent Work Area: This is home to "Work Station" and "Factory." Both stations involve allowing students to work on already mastered skills to foster maintenance and independence. Break Area: This area has bean bags, large therapy balls, as well as a variety of other toys for kids to engage with during break times. Reading Area: This station is run by an assistant. Students work on a variety of reading and spelling skills through hands-on activities. Students read adapted books, complete daily spelling worksheets (roll a word, make a sentence, etc.), as well as other seasonal reading center activities. Language: This station is run by an assistant. Students work on increasing their speed and accuracy on a variety of flash card sets and fluency timing sheets. Students also have binders of worksheets related to IEP goals which they work on when they are not involved in a fluency timing. Teacher Time: This is where students work with me on IEP goals that need more targeted or direct instruction. Science: This station is run by an assistant. Students work on completing worksheets and hands-on activities about a monthly science topic. Small Group Table: This area is used for a variety of activities. We have our daily math groups here; I run a 2nd (higher level) morning group here; we use this for art projects, cooking activities, and playing small group games. Computer Area: Here, we have 2 classroom computers and some iPads for student use during break times as well as targeted "technology" time. I have never had "technology time" before...but am super excited this year about it! I am creating a list of apps for each student that goes with their IEP goals. That way students can work on addressing IEP goals through technology!! I will be back soon with more photos and more detailed explanations of my stations!
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Color coding your special ed classroom can be a game changer for your organization. I can teach you how to color code your classroom.
If your classroom is anything like mine, we live and breathe by a schedule. That is not to say that we always stay exactly on schedule, but we always have one. Correction: We always have more tha…
FREE Visual direction cards to display the order you would like steps to be completed on your students' assignments.
