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If you are looking for fun ideas that will keep your students on task the last week before winter break, check these Christmas themed deals! Several are specific to Christmas, but others are good all winter long. And what kid actually wouldn’t like to keep the Christmas spirit alive for…
Save time around the holidays with this “No Prep Print and Go” Christmas Math worksheet packet that your special ed class will love! Here is what is included: + Five pages where students count pictures(sometimes multiples of the same pictures, sometimes different pictures, sometimes overlapping pictures, and sometimes the…
I love, love, love this quote from Mark Twain! Ask kids: What does this quotation mean? How can kindness be shown using our different senses? How can a blind person see kindness? How can someone who is deaf hear kindness? This Class Discussion Series is for anyone, young students, older students,…
Topic #1 is a current popular saying. If you throw confetti do you expect to gather it back up? No, you are giving it freely to everyone, with no return expectations. How can someone throw kindness like confetti? Have students brainstorm situations in which they were kind to someone…
New special ed teachers or speech/language therapist who mostly works with students in general ed classes will love these tips! Sometimes these positions are called Resource, inclusion or Full Inclusion, Pull-out or Push-in, SLP or even RSP (Resource Specialist Program in Calif). Do you feel like you’re going in circles…
I’m starting a new series on Class Discussion Topics to be used for anyone: young students, older students, general ed, special ed, adults, etc. Teachers can adapt to meet the needs of the classroom.Use the topics to start a class discussion – either whole class, or in small groups. Or…
I can still remember how excited I was when I got a paper cutter for Christmas my first year of teaching. I still get happy thinking about it. I know, it’s wasn’t the typical Christmas gift of clothes, jewelry, etc.! But most teachers will agree that having one close by…
In this blog post, I will answer a question I hear often: What is an Itinerant Orthopedic Impairment Teacher? Some OI teachers have their own classroom which contains students with orthopedic impairments, but this will be about itinerant OI teachers, meaning those serve students of all ages in different school…
Here are some ideas on how to have successful home visits with your students. I started doing home visits about 15 years ago and have continued to do them in different settings: General ed third grade, special ed elementary self-contained (mild/moderate special day class – mostly kids with learning disabilities,…
This blog post explains how I incorporated my morning meeting routine into my self-contained class with 12-20 students grades K-5 mild/moderate disabilities (on a general ed TK-6 public school campus).
