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You Don't Have to Do It All: 5 Tasks You Can Delegate to Paraprofessionals

If there is one I have learned in my years of working with paraprofessionals, it is that paras are teachers too. My paraprofessional is my right hand and my left hand. She is the glue that keeps us together. I realize that sometimes it is our first instinct to give them passive work because their

Top Websites Every Special Educator Should Know

Special educators need a pretty large toolbox of strategies and resources to support our learners. So often, our students can have significantly diverse needs and levels. On any given day, special education teachers might need to take student reading data, modify a math assessment, teach science wit

In February I blogged for the first time about what was actually INSIDE my work boxes. My first post focused specifically on "put in" work t...

From developing fine motor skills, letter and number recognition, sight words, sorting, sequencing, reading, and math, these task boxes for autism tasks will help develop important life skills and beyond!

How to Increase Independence Using Task Boxes in the Classroom | Especially Education

Today’s guest blogger, Dana Howell, is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst who taught regular education, and special education. Dana has also been a paraprof ...

Over 20 interventions, strategies, and supports to help teach attention skills to kids and young adults. Being able to focus and pay attention is a requirement for learning! Use these activities to help students with ADHD and ALL learners improve focus while improving your classroom management. Try attention grabbers, setting a timer, using fidgets, implementing flexible seating, and more. This is for regular education AND special education needs! #adhd #pathway2success

Challenges with focus and attention can become a huge roadblock to learning for kids and young adults. Simply put, attention is critical to learning. If students can't focus on the lesson, they are going to struggle with understanding the new content. If students can't focus on the directions, they

Summer Plan: Get Organized! - Brooke Reagan's Class

One of the best feelings about starting a new school year is getting organized. Even if it is just for 0.2 seconds. That feeling that everything is one place and your paperwork is nice and neat. Yes, I know, that is a perfect world, but a girl can dream. Being a special education teacher, brings ... Read More about Summer Plan: Get Organized!

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Setting up daily schedules and routines in the secondary special education classroom can be challenging. In an adult transition classroom, you may have students leaving campus for vocational training, community based instruction or special education services. That is why it is important to establish daily routine that will work in your self-contained classroom with your students. Here are some of my favorite ways to create lesson plans and activities for the secondary special education classroom
Are you looking for a fun and engaging way to practice functional reading and money math skills in your secondary special education classroom? This Next Dollar Up Holiday Bingo Activity combines both functional reading skills and money math into one activity for your special education students. Students will love playing this visual bingo game during the Christmas and holiday season as they practice independent living skills by determining the cost of items. Grab this holiday bingo set today.
Sorting and classifying activities are great for writing centers, workstations, rotations, early finishers, small groups, handwriting practice, special education, or a school-based occupational therapy session. Share with students digitally for teletherapy, OT telehealth sessions or classroom meets.
Have you joined the Simply FREE library yet? Are you ready to have access to hundreds of FREE special education resource downloads at your fingertips? I’m talking about FREE digital activities, FREE centers activities, FREE visual schedules for special education, FREE visual recipes…and the list goes on! These resource library for special education teachers includes math activities, data collection sheets, morning meeting activities, and back to school forms. All downloads are differentiated.