If you have not cooked in your self-contained special education classroom, you are seriously missing out! It can be hard to manage with allergies, cost of ingredients, and lack of cooking equipment. However, there is a toooonnn of skills that…
>As special educators, we all know the importance of positive reinforcement in teaching our students. This is equally important now that we have had to implement distance learning during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Executive functioning skills are absolutely necessary to work on with your students with autism. These are the skills that are used to help plan and execute a task. Read more to discover 5 items that I used in my special…
Wearing a mask to prevent the spread of COVID-19 is new for most of us. Even though school will be very different for us this year, this presents a good opportunity to teach our learners with autism about social skills.
When we take the time to take a step back from just leading the teaching in our autism classrooms, it helps us to make things run smoother. Learn more about why becoming a facilitator in the classroom is super important to our role as a special educator.
Executive functioning skills help us know how to plan an execute a task. It is the foundation to true independence for our students with autism. Using visuals is one way that I help my students with autism be successful in executive functioning.
Individual schedules are a necessity in autism classrooms. None of us are strangers to visual schedules posted right the wall of most elementary autism classroom. Usually color coded, usually tacked right up on the wall at eye level of the…
If you have been anywhere near social media in 2018, I am sure you have heard at least one from this handful of words: meditation, mindfulness, self-care. The yesteryears of wearing the busy badge of honor are out with 2017. …
Teaching reading skills in a secondary self-contained classroom can be tough. Most of our students are reading significantly below their grade levels. Many times, we are also dealing with students at a wide variety of reading levels. The biggest challenge…
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