I talk a lot about visual schedules on the blog among other visual supports. And some of you may have heard me talk about the importance of visual schedule check-in stations. In short, I think they are a critical part of how we teach students to use schedules. The students need to do more than just take the visual off…
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If you are a life skills teacher, you know how difficult it is to find real-life materials that you can use to teach meaningful literacy and reading comprehension to your students. It’s particularly difficult when you get to the middle and high school level and so many of the curricula are designed for young kids.I started creating the Life Skills…
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Clip art credit to Ashley HughesSo in my last post I talked about WHY you should schedule choice time in the classroom. As promised, now I’ll talk about HOW it can be included. Well, really there are tons of ways to include choice time in the classroom from making choices within activities to having the class vote and choose reinforcers…
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The other day we were working on classroom schedules in the community of the Special Educator Academy. And someone commented that my schedule examples almost always have a choice time scheduled into the day. They asked why and what they looked like. And I realized I hadn’t talked about why I like choice time and why I think it’s important.So…
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Did you know that there is a TpT for Schools site set up specifically to help schools find and purchase the resources teachers need in their classroom? No?? Or maybe you did know but your school isn’t using it? Did you think that it wasn’t worth sharing it in your district? Or had you never thought about it?Not sure your…
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