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Are you setting up a resource special education classroom this year? Here are my favorite tips and tricks to help you set up your special education classroom for success this back to school season. These tips include ideas for how to organize your classroom, how to create a schedule for your students, how to encourage collaboration, progress monitoring tips, and resources to help you have a successful school year in your resource special education classroom.

Use the special ed inclusion documentation forms to keep track of service times, lesson plans, and more. Streamline it all quickly and effectively!

Essentials of a Special Education Resource Room: After I accepted my new position as a K-3 Special Education Resource Teacher, I quickly got to work in planning out my new classroom. I considered student need, layout, materials, and decor to prepare my room. I'm thrilled to share these 3 essential components of my new classroom with you!

Tracking accommodations and modifications for special education teachers.

Use students' IEPs to set up and plan centers in your special education classroom. Centers will run well & be highly effective.

Are you a new special education teacher and feeling a little overwhelmed with your first year of teaching? Check out this blog post to help you feel organized with everything you need to plan in your self contained classroom. Visual schedules, IEP organization, classroom setup, independent work and curriculum are all important to prepare before the school year starts. These new special education teacher tips will help you feel successful in your special education classroom.

Beginning of year special education forms - As an inclusion intervention specialist, your first week of school can get hectic fast. You are playing the...

Print PDF I will be back this week with more on evidence-based practices, but today we have a special surprise. Kim from Mrs. H’s Resource Room is going to share her strategies on reading with you, which I know you will enjoy! Thanks Kim! Hey there! I am Kim from Mrs. H’s Resource Room and ... Read More about Guest Blog from Mrs. H’s Resource Room on READING!

This week is the week I move back into my classroom. If you have been following my blog very long, you know that I moved to a new school last year. It is a beautiful school, a brand new building, but it wasn’t complete at the beginning of last year. Our school was built in two phases. Each phase of the building has classroom (communities) for grades K-5. Phase one was completed last year and our school district went through a redistricting process to direct students to our building. Students…

You landed the job and you're a brand new teacher! Check out these tips for first year special education teachers in this blog post!

Laying out the special needs classroom design can be tough. I've rounded up posts and goals of setting up the physical space.

Paraprofessionals are an important part of the special education classroom. Having a good paraprofessional can make a huge difference! Parapros can help with classroom management, documenting behaviors, IEP goal work, collaborating on a student’s IEP, and so much more. Which is why it is so important to set expectations, train your paraprofessionals, and work on building rapport with them to build a collaborative relationship. Here are my top 5 strategies to help you work as a team with…

Due to the nature of our classrooms we are bound to have a wide range of student abilities. Having such a wide range can sometimes be challe...

Take a look inside my office as a PreK-5 literacy coach! Get a free science of reading bulletin board to use in your own literacy coach office, too!

Color-coding provides students with a visual support and keeps teachers organized as well. Any excuse to add color into my classroom is a win in my book!