Life skills classroom

Life skills centers are a fun, effective way to teach your students life skills. In this post, I show you how to easily set up life skills centers. Each month, focus on a new life skills classroom center. Ask parents to chip in for these life skills learning centers. Most will be happy to help. If you want to learn more about centers for life skills, be sure to check out this blog.

Are you tired of reinventing the wheel in your life skills classroom? Are you struggling with writing lesson plans for your secondary special education classroom? Here are 7 activities that changed the way I teach in the special education classroom. Each of these activities are designed to target specific skills with my students including life skills, social skills, social studies, functional reading, vocational skills and current events. Learn how you can use resources in your classroom…

Free life skills curriculum for all ages. Financial literacy, cooking, sewing, auto repair, driver's ed, babysitting, gardening, first aid, career planning, current events, entrepreneurship, social skills, and more!

Lessons from a Life Skills, Special Education Classroom

Are you wondering how to set up a life skills in the classroom? Today, I’m sharing life skill center set up. When setting up centers for life skills, gather the material and organize it into bins. Decide on the life skills that will be taught for the month in your special education classroom. I like to create a life skills schedule for the year to stay organized. Finally, the students get to work during these independent stations with some help from the adults in the room.

Do you teach life skills in your special education classroom? We used our instructional kitchen to work on basic functional life skills like putting away groceries, sorting silverware, and folding hand towels. These types of centers are such a perfect addition to your academic curriculum.

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Creating effective life skills lessons outside the classroom takes planning. Our resource provides special education life skills activities, special education classroom setup life skills visual schedules, task analysis special education life skills, and functional life skills activities to keep students engaged on outings. Save this pin for easy ways to make community outings impactful! 🚌

Find engaging classroom job skills ideas with these easy to set up job prep activities for special education and students with disabilities.

Are you looking for classroom jobs that aren’t line leader? Are you a special education teacher who wants to incorporate life skills and job skills into your daily routine? This list of 7 classroom jobs will help you promote independent living skills and responsibility in your special education classroom as part of your daily classroom routine. These jobs are also perfect for secondary special education students to practice independent living skills and vocational skills in the classroom.

10+ Special Education Life Skills Activities - Teaching Autism

Life Skills Lesson: Mailing a Letter - Teaching Special Thinkers

Are you teaching life skills in your special education classroom? In this blog post, I will talk about the importance of using life skills curriculum with your special needs students to gain confidence and increase independence. I include 12 special education resources that you can use all school year long, such as health and nutrition, social skills, meal planning, housekeeping, money and more. You can even grab my special education freebie here - a life skills pacing guide.

Interactive bulletin board activities are an engaging way to practice hands-on life skills and job skills in your special education classroom. Use interactive bulletin boards to practice fulfilling orders, money math, next dollar up, stocking inventory, sorting inventory and more. They are perfect for center activities, independent work tasks, IEP goal work and preparing students for community based instruction. Learn how I set up interactive bulletin boards in my life skills classroom here.

Work tasks are a great way for students to practice life skills and vocational skills in the special education classroom. But what if traditional work tasks or task box activities aren’t accessible to all your students? How can you adapt work tasks to meet the needs of all your students, regardless of their level? Here you’ll find my favorite work tasks ideas and activities for special education students along with how they can be adapted to meet the needs of students of all levels.

6 Mistakes LIFE Skills Teachers (& Paras) Make… Do you do any of these? STOP! Working with students in self-contained settings or those with severe or multiple disabilities is hard, but I see many people in the classroom make these same mistakes over and over without really thinking there are any consequences. If you stop these 6 mistakes, your students will be the better for it- I promise!

Come check out how I organize, decorate, and utilize spaces & activities to be functional on this Adult Transition classroom tour!

It's challenging to create functional life skills classrooms that target all of the different reading, math and communication goals our students have. Peek inside to see what components you need to create a functional lesson that leads to life long skills. Click to read now!

Over 100 Independent Functioning and Independent Living Life Skills IEP Goals, including ADLs, food prep, shopping, functional reading, and essential life skills.

Job ideas for students in special education to do in the classroom and around school