Welcome Special Ed and Primary teachers! Equip yourself with teacher-tested strategies to make your teaching easier.
The Growth Mindset movement is spreading to more classroom, and rightly so. Our students need to learn tools to learn stamina and perseverance, examples of kindness, encouraging others, etc. They need to know they don’t have to stay in a fixed mindset if something goes wrong during the day. First,…
Chinese New Year (also called Lunar New Year) is coming soon. 2020 is the year of the Rat. Here are some activities to do in your classroom. First, you should consider reading the book, Ruby’s Chinese New Year by Vickie Lee. Introduce simple vocabulary with a word wall…
Here is a great video that explains and shows how to use Boom Learning decks with Google Classroom. The video shows how to assign decks to students different ways. This makes it so easy for kids to get valuable independent practice work done. And easy prep for the teacher! …
I love, love, love TouchMath!! Over the years, many of my students with special needs have benefited from extra practice to master concepts of simple addition, subtraction, problem-solving, etc. I like how TouchMath breaks it all down into steps. However, every year I’d have a few students who couldn’t make…
I found out about Boom Learning over the summer, and it has been easy to incorporate into lessons with my students. There are two main reasons why I signed up for it. First, is that grading and data collection is so easy… meaning that it does it for you!! I…
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 worksheets 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 pictures are…
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…
