Special Education

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Classroom Essentials for the New Special Education Teacher

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Functional or Life Skills
Functional or life skills are vital for students with disabilities independence and their future ability to live in the community.
Games for Academic and Social Skills
Games are great tools for helping students with disabilities practice academic and social skills.
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Using Clothespins to Support Classroom Routines in a Special Ed Program
Clothespins can be useful for administrative tasks such as taking attendance and collecting homework, as we can see in this example.
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Beyond Behavior Management - Creating A Classroom Culture
Creating a classroom culture goes beyond classroom management, to think about ways to create creative, productive students who are self directed.
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Align - a Verb That Describes how IEP Goals Match State Standards
"Align" is used to describe how IEP goals, lesson plans or other parts of instructional and curriculum design are made to meet standards created to lay expectations and educational outcomes.
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Classroom Essentials for the New Special Education Teacher
First time teachers need to spend some time creating the environment, the structure and the strategies that will build classroom success.
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Text Features to Navigate Non-Fiction - Contents, Glossary and Index
The table of contents, the index and the glossary are text features that help students navigate a text, predict the content and better understand it.
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Text Features - Photos and Illustrations to Support Comprehension
Helping students understand how pictures and illustrations provide insights into the content of texts helps struggling readers to master content.
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Using Titles/Subtitles to Support Comprehension in Special Education
Titles and subtitles are text features authors use to structure the content of non-fiction. Learning to use them is the foundation of good comprehension.
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Down Syndrome Characteristics - Strengths and Needs
Down Syndrome, once known as Mongolism, is the result of a chromosomal aberration that impacts physical conformation, muscle tone and cognitive ability.
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Creating Behavior Goals for Early Intervention IEP's
Early intervention behavior goals explicitly names the replacement behavior, setting goals to reduce the target behavior and increasing the new behavior.
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Early Academic Life Skills - Skills that Support Success at School
Academic Life Skills are those skills that a child needs to be able to benefit from a structured education setting, even in a self contained program.
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Bedtime at the Nut House - a Lesson Plan and Activity
Using fun books with cadences like Bedtime at the Nut House by Eric Litwin is a great way to structure some of your group time in a self contained or primary program.
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Art Projects for Fine Motor Skills and Following Directions
Art projects provide fun ways for students to develop fine motor skills and create a product they can proudly take home to Mom. Even Teens enjoy them,
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Mothers Day Activities for Students with Disabilities
Mothers Day projects motivate students with disabilities to use fine motor, writing and direction skills in order to create something for Mom.
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