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…
Conflict with classroom staff can add a lot of unnecessary stress in our jobs. Tensions can distract us from getting done what needs to get done. Unfortunately, dealing with staff conflict is just part of the gig. And just like…
Training our staff is one of those things that necessary for a well-run classroom that we receive no training ourselves on. When there’s so much to do in the classroom and getting your students to sit and be engaged feels…
Hopefully you got some ideas for discovering the preferences of your staff. This is going to be key to figuring out what motivates them, what activities they find reinforcing. This will make things much easier once we start thinking about…
Before we dive into the how’s of training, teaching, and getting out paras doing what we need them to do, we need to talk about the most crucial thing we need to be doing: pairing. Hopefully, you have some background…
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…
It’s started. The memes joking about how frazzled teachers are. Except it’s not a joke and it’s too close for comfort. Honestly, it is going to be rough getting through these last few weeks. However, don’t abandon ship just yet. …
Work tasks system are a crucial part of a self-contained autism classroom. They teach our students how to work independently, which we hope to eventually transfer to a work setting. However, it is important to make sure your students’ work tasks system is challenging and helping them move towards indepedence.
