Special education schedule

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Setting up a schedule in a self-contained classroom is one of the hardest parts of our job. I remember my first year of teaching thinking, “why did no one teach me how to do this in college?” After years and years of tweaking my daily schedule, I finally settled on the same master schedule every […]

Does the thought of visual schedules make your head spin? Are you tired of finding stray PECs scattered about the room? Then Especially Education's Visual Schedule Flip Book and Token Board may be your solution! This post will walk you through the ins and outs of this visual schedule, providing tips and adaptations to meet the needs of every single student in your classroom!

I have been working in special education since 2016 and using visuals can be an amazing way to support students with special needs. Many individuals with disability need additional support which is where these lanyard visuals will come in handy. This tabbed flip book is fantastic for students with special needs and, more specifically, for nonverbal kids on the Autism Spectrum. Great for special education teachers! Includes: - Editable Tabbed Flipbook - Visual Schedule - 5 Frame and 10 frame…

Creating a class schedule for a special needs classroom is daunting. Let's be honest... for a lot of us, it's our least favorite thing to do all year long. But I have some tricks of the trade to share with you to make it as painless as possible at the beginning of the school year. Blog post at Mrs. D's Corner.

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

This week was pre-planning and I really got almost nothing done. I just can't figure out what to do with my room. I don't like distraction and clutter and lots of stuff. Most of the other teachers have cute themes in their rooms but it's visual overload to me. So my room tends to look pretty plain and dare I say, boring, compared to everyone else's. So far this is what I've got... As you can see, I'm painting my walls light blue. (They're actually finished now.) I figure it's a nice calm…

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Setting up an IEP work bin system can feel overwhelming! Here are some easy ways to do it so that your students can quickly work on goals!

Scheduling for special education is a DAUNTING task. Just like our kids we THRIVE on schedules (( and pretty much need them to survive)). One tip that I’m going to drive home throughout this post is that we HAVE TO be ok with CHANGE. Why? Because change is completely inevitable. It WILL happen. and […]