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…
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…
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.
>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.
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.
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. …
Do you realize the skills that it takes just to make sure you’re ready in the morning for work? There’s a lot that can go wrong if you don’t have good executive functioning skills. You might not wake up on…
Think back to when you were in school to become a special education teacher. You probably heard a lot about differentiation, quite a bit about behavior, and got good overview of data collection measures. Try as we might, most of…
Ah, field trips. They can feel like a blessing or a curse to any teacher, self-contained or not. There are many, many mixed emotions that can occur when it comes to field trips. I personally feel one of two…
