It occurred to me that I talk about 1-man-down plans all the time. I’ve talked about them in FB Lives and in trainings, but I’m not sure I’ve never written about them. So here I’ve written and done a video tutorial you’ll find at the end of the post!Consider this scenario. On a Tuesday, you get to school to discover…
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As many of you know, I like to make resources set up by seasons. Part of this is because many of the students I know we all work with need to use the same resources for 2 to 3 months before we change it up on them. And seasons just give us a good dividing point to change up many…
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click the picture for more infoI don’t know why it took me so long to develop more online professional development. Years ago, when the internet was much newer and much smaller, I was working as a consultant and trainer doing outreach from Nova Southeastern University. I went around to lots of school districts from large urban districts to tiny districts…
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Click pictures to purchase on TpTI often get asked how to increase the difficulty of a student’s independent work system. Trying to make sure that our students are able to do the independent work tasks but aren’t getting bored is definitely a fine balance. Using tasks that require discrimination of details between pictures for matching is one step up from simple…
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![What you need to know to use rubrics for data collection. [Picture of a rubric]](https://www.autismclassroomresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/using-rubrics-for-data-collection-400x600.png)
In one recent post I talked about the use of rating scales to take behavioral data. Rubrics are another great way to take data particularly on the quality of a skill. I love using rubrics for assessing social and communication skills in particular. Rubrics are a type of rating scale but with a grouping of skills or behaviors you are…
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