Featured guest blogger: Heather, a middle school functional life skills self-contained teacher and blogger at Full Sped Ahead. What is a Curriculum Adaptation? Adapting curriculum is an ongoing dynamic process that modifies and adapts the program of studies to meet the learning ... 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
Dollar Tree Recycle Sorting Activities
The Dollar Tree has many useful and affordable educational resources. On a teacher's budget, even though a resource might only cost me $1, I still like to try and find ways to make the resource last a long time. This Recycle Activity Kit has been at the Dollar Tree for some time. It comes with 4 ... READ the POST
Holiday Crafts for Older Students in Special Education
As special education students get older, it gets harder to find age-appropriate crafts that are also easy enough for students to do as independently as possible. I found myself doing a lot of prepping for crafts, which is not what we want out of a craft that students will be sending home to ... READ the POST
Recycle Restaurant Menus & Travel Brochures With Cut & Paste Activities
One of my favorite things to do is find ways to recycle environmental print items for educational life skills use in the classroom! On a teacher's budget, we are always striving to find ways to save money, yet provide the best education for our students. I found a way to use to-go ... READ the POST
Community-Based Instruction Scavenger Hunt Ideas
I remember going to stores as a child and unless my parents told me I could pick something out or gave me money to purchase something, I wasn't very interested in being at the store. Don't even get me started on Home Depot…it was the most boring place in the world for me as a child, I dreaded it! ... READ the POST