Special Education Teacher Tips
Advice, tips and tricks for special education teachers and educators! Find classroom management ideas and ways to help your students regulate their behaviors. If you're a new special education teacher, I love sharing first year teaching ideas and hacks. I think professional development is so important so I love sharing teaching books and ideas for how to continue your education to best serve your special education students. Find ways to prep visual schedules, file folders, and task boxes fast!
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How to Host a Student Teacher in Your Special Education Classroom
Are you a special education teacher getting ready to host a student teacher? This is an exciting time but you might be wondering how to go about hosting a student teacher. In this post I am sharing my top teaching tips for being an effective mentor teacher to a student teacher. Learn more here!
Top Tips for Hosting a Student Teacher
Are you a special education teacher getting ready to host a student teacher? This is an exciting time but you might be wondering how to go about hosting a student teacher. In this post I am sharing my top teaching tips for being an effective mentor teacher to a student teacher. Learn more here!
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High School Special Education Classroom Setup
Are you a self-contained high school teacher looking for classroom setup ideas and inspiration? In this post, I am taking you on a tour of my self-contained special education classroom in a public high school. Discover my whole group area, center area, reward time area, and life skills area. I share teaching tips for making sure these areas are set up appropriately for your special education students and so much more! Check out this high school special education classroom!
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Digital Data Collection Special Education | Digital Data Sheets
Digital data collection is a fantastic option for keeping data organized, and saving time, paper, and space as a special education teacher. These digital data sheets make it easy to pull data on a student for IEP meetings, progressing monitoring notes, and more! Give these special education data sheets a try!
Digital Data Sheets for Special Education | Data Collection
Digital data collection is a fantastic option for keeping data organized, and saving time, paper, and space as a special education teacher. These digital data sheets make it easy to pull data on a student for IEP meetings, progressing monitoring notes, and more! Give these special education data sheets a try!
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Curriculum for Students with Moderate to Severe Disabilities | Special Education Lesson Plans
TeachTown’s enCORE curriculum is a comprehensive, research-based program designed to give ALL students access to meaningful learning. It is an adapted core curriculum that provides students with moderate to severe disabilities equitable and inclusive access to the general education curriculum! enCORE covers the 4 core academic domains ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies with complete lesson plans, benchmark assessments, and materials making enCORE simple to implement in every classroom.
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Using a Reward Store for Behavior Management in Special Education
Using a reward store can be an effective strategy for encouraging positive behavior in your special education classroom. A reward store is a behavior management system in which students earn ”bucks” for positive behaviors to “buy” rewards. Learn how to set up and use a reward store for behavior management in this post. You will discover 6 special education teacher tips for using this behavior management system!
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IEP Goals for Transition Level Students
Transition-level students need goals to work on the next steps they will take after graduating from high school. What IEP goals we give will depend on what their next steps are, and of course, areas of need. These IEP goals for transition level students can be life skill goals, self-help tasks, goals for transitioning into the workforce, and goals for safety.
Digital Data Collection Special Education | Digital Data Sheets
Digital data collection is a fantastic option for keeping data organized, and saving time, paper, and space as a special education teacher. These digital data sheets make it easy to pull data on a student for IEP meetings, progressing monitoring notes, and more! Give these special education data sheets a try!
Curriculum for Students with Moderate to Severe Disabilities | Special Education Lesson Plans
TeachTown’s enCORE curriculum is a comprehensive, research-based program designed to give ALL students access to meaningful learning. It is an adapted core curriculum that provides students with moderate to severe disabilities equitable and inclusive access to the general education curriculum! enCORE covers the 4 core academic domains ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies with complete lesson plans, benchmark assessments, and materials making enCORE simple to implement in every classroom.
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How to Set Up and Use IEP Goal Bins in Your Special Education Classroom
Tracking IEP goals and meeting objectives can be stressful, but it doesn't have to be with these amazing IEP goal bins. IEP goal bins will help you keep your special education students’ IEP goals and materials organized! An IEP goal bin is a container filled with everything you need to take data on a student’s IEP goals and objectives. You can keep track of your special education students' data collection with these data sheets. Keep your special education data organized!
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Data Collection Special Education | Special Education Data Sheets
Data collection in the special education classroom can feel exhausting but with daily data sheets, a data binder for special education, and a clear system it doesn’t have to be. In this post I am sharing how I track IEP data, new student data, simple assessments for special education and more.
6 Tips for Using a Reward Store for Behavior Management in Special Education
Using a reward store can be an effective strategy for encouraging positive behavior in your special education classroom. A reward store is a behavior management system in which students earn ”bucks” for positive behaviors to “buy” rewards. Learn how to set up and use a reward store for behavior management in this post. You will discover 6 special education teacher tips for using this behavior management system!
IEP Goals for Transition Level Students
Transition-level students need goals to work on the next steps they will take after graduating from high school. What IEP goals we give will depend on what their next steps are, and of course, areas of need. These IEP goals for transition level students can be life skill goals, self-help tasks, goals for transitioning into the workforce, and goals for safety.
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Setting up a self-contained classroom can feel overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to feel that way! I
Finding high quality special education science activities can feel like a challenge but with this Simple Science Curriculum, you will have everything you need to plan your special education science lessons. This curriculum includes science comprehension, science file folders, science experiments and more. All of the units focus on the same 6 topics. Matter, Simple Machines, Living/Nonliving, Hot or Cold, Planets, and Five Senses.
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