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Tips For First-Year Special Education Teachers

Congratulations! You’ve worked incredibly hard to earn your teaching credential (or you're starting out as an intern teacher while you earn your credential), and now, as a first-year teacher, it’s time to put all that knowledge into practice. You finally have your own classroom—a space you get to ... READ the POST

Using Digital Activities In The Classroom.

You probably made or purchased some digital resources in order to meet the needs of your students during distance learning.  Not only are digital activities going to make your life easier, but they are also going to help save trees.    DIFFERENT TYPES OF DIGITAL ... READ the POST

Schedules & Lesson Plans in an Adult Transition Classroom

Let me start out by saying every classroom and school is different, and this is just one perspective on what works for my adult transition classroom.  There are so many components to making schedules and lesson plans run as smooth as possible in a special education classroom.  Please also ... READ the POST

Engaging Group Lesson Ideas for Self Contained Sped

If you teach special education, you pretty much know that adapted resources are a necessity in your classroom (task cards, file folders, adapted books…etc)!  If your class/students are anything like mine, it is a task to get all of my students to sit for half an hour and concentrate on a group ... READ the POST

Ideas for Practicing Job Skills Remotely or In The Classroom

Whether distance learning is continuing for you or you are returning to school soon, many of our students that have off-campus work experience are not going to be able to participate in that type of experience for a while.  While there’s nothing quite like off-campus work experience, there are ... READ the POST

Making Cents of It All: Teaching Functional Money Skills in Life Skills Classrooms

Money skills are a vital part of independent living. It’s not just about recognizing coins and bills or understanding how to budget—students also need to develop the motor and social skills involved in handling money. While completing worksheets with money-related word problems is helpful, applying ... READ the POST

It's one thing to do worksheets that have word problems involving money,  but being able to transfer those skills in the community is a whole other skill to master.  Here are some ideas to practice these functional skills in the classroom to prepare your students for the community and beyond!

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